dose shaving your target arrows stop you needing to aim off

[teddybear]

i was chatting to my mate at the club be for i hat to go off to a coures, he sed that he has been told that if you shave a little and a little off 1 side you can set it so at a set range you dont need to aim off to the side.

[Et tu brute]

That probably just lowers the spine a bit, however I wouldn't want to try it myself, as if your only doing it on one side you'll be creating a weak spot on the shaft. All you really need to do is get arrows of the correct spine, which tends to be (for longbow) about 10 less than your draw weight, depending on your drawlength and weight of point used.

[teddybear]

i was thinking it was not safe i sed im not going to do that when im sending it down range at 50lbs for me its the facted that my long bow is harder to hit than any other bow i love

[steve58]

Assuming the drawlength and loose are consistent then having to aim off is to do with spine, as stated above.

For a right handed shooter a weak arrow will go right and a stiff one left.

If you are having to aim off to the right your arrows are going left and are perhaps too stiff.

This may not actually be a problem, depending on how you like to shoot.

A heavier point may make the shaft behave as though it is weaker and reduce the need to aim off in this situation. Or you could build some arrows with a weaker spine, keeping all other variables the same, to see whether that fixes the problem. These fixes depend on having a very consistent shot though.

[English Bowman]

Exactly what Steve said. If you shoot with a good style, and with matched arrows you will not have to aim off at any distance.
You don't have to shoot modern target style to achieve this, you just need to have your dominant eye over the arrow. I don't aim off to the side except in high winds, and that is shooting both in target style with an under chin anchor, and field style anchoring with the middle finger in the corner of my mouth.

Daniel

[Longbow_Gold]

Aiming off may also be down to an archer's release technique as well arrow spine, but I'm not sure if this may be the case.

I don't know if this is of any help or not, but I thought it would be worth mentioning

Willie

[English Bowman]

Originally Posted by Longbow_Gold

Aiming off may also be down to an archer's release technique as well arrow spine, but I'm not sure if this may be the case.

I don't know if this is of any help or not, but I thought it would be worth mentioning

Willie

True, also if your head position is out then that will cause problems.

Daniel

[Longbow_Gold]

The reason I mentioned it is because I found that on shots when I've not released the arrow as clean as I would like, the arrow would go to the right a little, whereas when I have a good smooth release, then the arrow is bang on target

I prefer to work on release technique can be easily overlooked and not thought of as something important to practise, but it really does make the difference between being accurate and consistent or being innaccurate and inconsistent.

Willie