AlabamaMountainMan
Lil-Rokslider
Had an interesting failure tonight that ended with a brass nock stuck in my face and thought I would share while I’m up stopping the bleeding. Hopefully someone gets some entertainment out of it.
I was out shooting a WARF I’ve been building and have just gotten shootable this week. I noticed yesterday that I had an arrow fall off the string which never happens on my other recurve, but I just chalked it up to a weird fluke. Tonight, about 7 arrows in I started the release process and as I was crossing the point of no return, I heard an unusual noise. Unfortunately, I could not stop the release and next thing I know, the arrow was on the ground beside me and a brass nock was jammed into my left cheek. I guess the cheek/face bleeds easy because it started bleeding a surprising amount immediately after prying it out.
I believe what I heard was the arrow slipping off the string and “tinging” against the riser. I think the cause of this is my fixed crawl is to low for the string angle with this overall length and my draw length. It’s a 60” bow and I believe I’m releasing somewhere around 29 or 29.5”. My other bow is a 62” and never has that issue, but the string angle is less severe. May have to change my crawl or get longer limbs.
In the meantime, I think I’ll be switching to tying in my nocks instead of the brass clamps and hoping I don’t have a flinch tomorrow.
I was out shooting a WARF I’ve been building and have just gotten shootable this week. I noticed yesterday that I had an arrow fall off the string which never happens on my other recurve, but I just chalked it up to a weird fluke. Tonight, about 7 arrows in I started the release process and as I was crossing the point of no return, I heard an unusual noise. Unfortunately, I could not stop the release and next thing I know, the arrow was on the ground beside me and a brass nock was jammed into my left cheek. I guess the cheek/face bleeds easy because it started bleeding a surprising amount immediately after prying it out.
I believe what I heard was the arrow slipping off the string and “tinging” against the riser. I think the cause of this is my fixed crawl is to low for the string angle with this overall length and my draw length. It’s a 60” bow and I believe I’m releasing somewhere around 29 or 29.5”. My other bow is a 62” and never has that issue, but the string angle is less severe. May have to change my crawl or get longer limbs.
In the meantime, I think I’ll be switching to tying in my nocks instead of the brass clamps and hoping I don’t have a flinch tomorrow.
