well, i don't know if anyone is interested, but...

as soon as i got home yesterday, i set my little girl down and grabbed my bow, stood in front of a mirror and drew it. arthur was right. i was torquing the string when holding it...my string looked just as arthur described. i was really having a difficult time NOT doing that everytime i drew. (probably from the last couple of months of shooting that way. [:-] bad habits, bad habits, bad habits...[8D]) so, i think i will be changing my holding method. i am now drawing with the split finger method, but once i get to my anchor point, i am going to drop the top finger (the one above the arrow) off of the string and hold only with the bottom two (the ones below the arrow.) this does two things for me...one, i don't torque the string doing this. two, it is a little easier to hold at full draw due to relief of the steep string angle created from the relatively short ata bow. after dropping that finger off, the arrow really seems to fly a LOT better. i didn't get a chance to shoot any bare shafts though as it started raining. but the fletched arrows flew really well. does anyone see a potential problem with drawing and shooting the way i do now?

thanks to everyone (arthur p, timbow2 and bigpapascout.) you guys really helped a lot. it sure is nice having a place to come with questions and being able to get quality responses.