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[elastoplastscavenger]

i finaly got 501 at an indoor porstmouth lastnight! first 500+ iv ever done in competition (last competitions were 428 and 486) and the first 500+ since the christmass break, (that holliday messed me up) and the first time shooting for about 3 weeks. my fingers and shoulders are telling me i should have shot during the holliday!

all with a completely untunned bow and a new tab that makes me shoot really far left. i havent adjusted my sight yet so i put the sight pin on the 5point line at 3 o'clock position. im thinkin i should trim the tab to my finger length...would a long tab make me shoot left (aside from the new slidy surface having an effect)? i think iv shot about 100 arrows with the new tab and the groupings havent moved much between arrow 1 and arrow 100.

[geoffretired]

Are you right handed? If so, extra speed from a slicker tab would tend put arrows to the right. It is difficult to say why the arrows go left but it could be the stiffness of the new tab. It could be your fingers hold the string differently under the new tab. With tabs, they are so personal; I would advise having two the same, shooting them alternately( on a daily basis) so you always have a spare that works the same as the other.

[elastoplastscavenger]

yeh right handed. the tab is much stiffer and slicker than my old one whcih had the properties of a dishcloth. would the length effect it much?

[Rik]

I don't know about sideways, but a new tab can affect the height of your arrows on the target...

[Shirt]

New tab face always dumps my arrows low left.

Usually takes about a week of serious shooting to break it in.

[elastoplastscavenger]

well i managed to get a sight mark by winding the pin 3 turns to the right and down about 1/10th on the cartel scale.