Why compensator button?

[bkupris]

You have your coaching hat on and an archer puts the following to you "If I can hit the gold with my longbow why do I need a compensator button on my recurve?" What would you say to that one?

[tel]

"You don't".....like you don't 'need' a sight,stabilisers or a rest (or indeed a clicker ), but all of these things are there to help remove the inherent inconsistency of a stick and a variable archer on the back of it.

[Jerry Tee]

It depends if you want to hit more than one gold or not.

[geoffretired]

You could say, "If you can hit the gold with your longbow, why shoot the recurve?"
Seriously,I think the answers to that question would probably answer the original one too.

[TWIW]

Probably because modern recurve bows have been designed to work better with a button etc than without them. particularly as the sight window is now cut way over centre on most risers.

[Murray]

Tell them to try putting their arrow in the gold at 90m - consistently

As long as the arrow is held in the right place it's not ABSOLUTELY necessary to have a compensator button. Last year I shot a 720 with my button set to rock solid... the groups were actually ok! I heard a story about some top archer shooting with a nail rather than a button, but that may simply be urban legend.

[Murray]

Originally Posted by Yorker

It's a tuning thing, can't remember why but you take the spring etc out and stick a nail/thick matchstick in its place and tune from there.

No, what I was doing was part of a tuning thing... the story refers to an archer using a nail in competition.

[Wildcat]

Hello Brian
I like your style asking this question here:
I thought it might be something to do with the longbow being solid and the arrow being off set from the centre. But on a recurve the sight window is cut away moving the arrow past the centre and there for a button would be used to put the arrow back past the centre of the bow. This would then help compensate for the bending of the arrow when shot.
But I am as puzzled as you are with the question we were sat.
Andrew

[Good Sir Pete]

I'd shoot them and carry on as if nothing ever happened...

[TWIW]

Originally Posted by Wildcat

Hello Brian
I like your style asking this question here:
I thought it might be something to do with the longbow being solid and the arrow being off set from the centre. But on a recurve the sight window is cut away moving the arrow past the centre and there for a button would be used to put the arrow back past the centre of the bow. This would then help compensate for the bending of the arrow when shot.
But I am as puzzled as you are with the question we were sat.
Andrew

So this is a question posed in your County course then?