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Old 12-29-2003 | 12:07 PM
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Pinwheel 12
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Default RE: Nock travel? Seems to be a bigger deal.

Art-

I understand where you're coming from. No worries.


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Everything is relative-- The straighter and more level the nock travel, the lesser overall paradox due to the imparted torque of the archer. If you start out high or low and THEN impart extra torque into that as well, it takes much longer to negate any paradox as opposed to a bow that offers S&LNT. By starting off straight and level, it is possible to easily dial-out out shooter torque when you tune the bow, whereas without the S&LNT you cannot because the arrow starts of high or low to begin with and thus takes much longer to negate paradox. This affects overall accuracy.

Conventional twin cams cannot offer both Straight and Level nock travel due to the fact that they have "mirror image" cams on each end of the bow, and the true centerline of the bow is the grip, therefore when the arrow sits higher than the centerline with cams that fire in tandem and are of the same size, the nock travel will thus start out high. Conventional Twins can certainly offer straight travel, but not level unless the top cam has a larger string radius. Good shooting, Pinwheel 12
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