Fixed crawl.....

[Beendare]

I'm at a point with some bad joints/ injury where I can't shoot as much as I would like. I have been playing around with the "Fixed Crawl" and it sure has tightened up my groups and helped with flyers on my hunting distance shots [10yds to 30yds]
It just keeps my arrows in a tighter range....which is huge with stickbow shooting. I am more consitantly accurate doing this than any other technique I've tried.

It makes sense, the Stringwalkers are tops at the tournaments. Plenty of vids on how to set this up; Jimmy Blackmon has one as does [I think] 'The Push'

BTW, I think this will help no matter the aiming technique you use....it puts the arrow up closer to your eye...so even if you shoot instinctive its going to help tighten your groups.

I tried a 20yd fixed crawl...but have settled on 30. I like having a little gap above the tip of my arrow to bore in on the spot I want to hit. Plus the less you go down the string, the easier to tune and better all around arrow flight. So i'm at 7/8" below my nok for 30 yds....where I was at about 1 1/4" for a 20 yd crawl. of course you have to tune for the differnt hold [which usually involves raising your nok a bit]

Its pretty amazing...you might want to try it if you haven't already.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

Great method for hunting. I first got tuned in to this method several years ago. There was a guy that kept talking about a fixed crawl on Trad Talk before youtube was really popular so I pm'd him and asked what he was talking about. He explained it to me but I was a bit skeptical. I was early in my trad career so to speak so I struggled with it because I didn't have a good understanding of the basics. I went back to gap shooting for a few years and picked it back up a few years ago. Once I learned how to set it up properly and that you can't just crawl down the string and expect your arrows to still be tuned, I was hooked.

 

[Big6810]

I'm going to try this...


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[Felix40]

It is pretty dang effective. Its nice to not have to shoot so much now that i have a kid to keep an eye on all the time.

 

[justinspicher]

Never heard of this, I'll have to research it.

 

[Dinger]

This is a good 'how to' for the fixed crawl....I've only had a bow for a month now and I am enjoying it immensely. Hitting what I am aiming at is starting to happen.

The Push - A Traditional Archery Film - YouTube

 

[Beendare]

I think a fixed crawl will work for all aiming styles. In my case shooting gap...my 20 yd [visual] gap went from a very big 1 1/4" down to 1/4"...it just tightens everything up.

In the few years off and on with shooting stickbows I've really come to appreciate that having a high anchor/3 fingers under...and getting that arrow up close to your eye is a big advantage. 98% of the great 3D and target shooters do this....that tells you something.

If you shoot instinctive....having that arrow up high gives you less to visualize/extrapolate subconsciously and that would have to help with accuracy.

 

[MAT]

This made a huge difference in my shooting. I'm at a 25 yds with a 3/4" crawl. If you use a springy rest (which is highly recommended for a fixed crawl) the crawl is about 1/2 of a hard rest.

 

[Beendare]

^ yeah, good point. The top target guys I shoot against use a rest when they string walk....more forgiving. I just shoot what I'm going to hunt with and use the shoots to fine tune hunting skills...I'm not so worried about winning.

Its worth mentioning some of the strict trad shoots won't let you use this method as they make you touch the nok with your finger. I can shoot my fixed crawl tune that way...in fact thats how I shoot longer shots. The tune is a tiny bit off...but not too bad. Thats another reason NOT to setup your fixed crawl with a radical hold [say more than an inch down the string] as it messes with your tune when you hold against the nok.

Now your setup MAT with the rest might be forgiving of those long crawls......

 

[D.B. Cooper]

Using a rest will help negate a few of the problems associated with shooting a fixed crawl. I'm a fan of flipper rests with a shorty plunger but Bear Weather rests and the little Hoyt stick on rests work well too. With the arrow rest being higher than the shelf, by the time you're at a 3/4-1" crawl your fingers are grasping the string in almost the same location as they'd be if you were shooting off the shelf. That cuts down on the added noise that some people experience and would be really beneficial if using a one piece bow or other non ILF bows where the tiller cannot be adjusted.

 

[Superkodiak38]

If you get a Chance to watch any of the Master's of the barebow Video's I think Vol 3 has Ty Pelfrey in it and he does a good job of explaining set up a crawl and why he uses it. He also hunts with it.