Thank you John; I will try out those options you mentioned after I get off from work tomorrow. I appreciate that you made it a point to help me out even with your sickness. I will be seriously considering buying from you soon as well.
I'm not a doctor, but I do a saline spray in my nose every morning to help reduce the chances of getting sick since germs and bacteria can't thrive in a salty environment. Also, I might add that drinking a small amount of vinegar in a shot glass and sort of breathing in the vapors as you swallow can in my case help loosen the mucus, but it is acidic so maybe doing this during a meal or perhaps brushing after would be good. I really enjoy your videos they get into the secrets of bow building and the Comedy if intentional or not is excellent stuff. Get well soon Mr. Riggs :)
@@jkhippie5929 I appreciate the solid advice. One thing I try to do is never take myself too seriously, so if I also give people a chuckle, I did my job.
Hope you feel better soon. I had a shooting question. So I have a simple takedown recurve just to get into entry level traditional archery. I think the string that came with the bow was made out of dryer lint (just kidding, sort of), anyways it disintegrated quickly. I took the bow into the archery shop to get it restrung and while he restrung it he also changed the shooting rest. I am a string walking in terms of shooting style, but ever since I got the bow rest changed I cannot for the life of me get the arrow to the middle or right of the target. Everything is left, far left, or way far left. I am sighting down the arrow shaft and was shooting quite well before. I noticed that I was getting so frustrated that I really stopped shooting.
@@andyrunkel8296 Luckily the only real symptom of this cooflu is fatigue. I don't have any respiratory problems or fever anymore, just really tired. There aren't any real rules for arrow rests on these modern trad bows. Some people have some kind of rubbery arrow rest and a lot of us just glue leather or fleece to the shelf that goes up along the arrow pass (side of the shelf). I'd say just pull off the rest he put on it and glue a strip of leather on it and see how it works. You'll have to adjust the nocks on the string too.
@@johnjriggsarchery2457 Great tip....That's exactly what I will do. I think the fleece he put on there is just way to wide and is pushing the angle of my arrow way out of normal. Thanks so much! I will let you know how it goes.
Just an update, the reason it is shooting down I believe is the arrow weight and the balance of the arrows. I'm only doing 125fps because I need those arrows to make the bow less harsh on my elbow and shoulder with its vibrations. However, I did lighten the tips, and it has become a more enjoyable shooter for sure. I checked the tiller and it was correct; the upper limb was of a lighter strength compared to the bottom limb. Also I took your advice and I put in an order for the 10 pack of Sinew :)
Hello John, I find that a thin heavy soft spined arrow is good for bendy handle bows with full width handle, has a lot of wood to go round so better have good flexible arrows, I’ve been making thinnest possible shafts from hawthorn, experiment..
First, hope you get better quickly. No fun being sick. Arrow going down ,...best guess, knocking point needs adjusting ( so right there with you ), or elbow too high on draw, or arrow itself is too heavy ( not spine, actual wood weight ), fletching too large, tip too heavy, might be peeking to see where the arrow goes, or letting down too soon. I wouldn't muck around with the actual bow until all other options can be ruled out. If the gentleman asking this question has already checked all of this, or none of it applies, I apologize for sounding know-it-allish.
@@estelpereira5011 All good advice, on every count. It's a tricky thing to try to picture different speeds of the limbs causing a sideways motion on the string because I keep coming back to, at some point along the string, the motion of the string snapping back will be in a straight line, so just make that the nocking point.
Hand shock on my self bows seems to be almost always outter limb mass unless it's a lam bow with tropical belly lams and those just have some hand shock period
@@christophertracey7201 Interesting. I would have never thought about tropical belly woods and handshock. Could it be because they're high density and or really hard? I'm not familiar with laminating or using woods like that though I wouldn't mind giving it a go.
Thank you John; I will try out those options you mentioned after I get off from work tomorrow. I appreciate that you made it a point to help me out even with your sickness. I will be seriously considering buying from you soon as well.
@@jkhippie5929 You're welcome, and I appreciate that you take time out of your day to watch my videos.
I'm not a doctor, but I do a saline spray in my nose every morning to help reduce the chances of getting sick since germs and bacteria can't thrive in a salty environment. Also, I might add that drinking a small amount of vinegar in a shot glass and sort of breathing in the vapors as you swallow can in my case help loosen the mucus, but it is acidic so maybe doing this during a meal or perhaps brushing after would be good. I really enjoy your videos they get into the secrets of bow building and the Comedy if intentional or not is excellent stuff. Get well soon Mr. Riggs :)
@@jkhippie5929 I appreciate the solid advice. One thing I try to do is never take myself too seriously, so if I also give people a chuckle, I did my job.
Hope you feel better soon. I had a shooting question. So I have a simple takedown recurve just to get into entry level traditional archery. I think the string that came with the bow was made out of dryer lint (just kidding, sort of), anyways it disintegrated quickly. I took the bow into the archery shop to get it restrung and while he restrung it he also changed the shooting rest. I am a string walking in terms of shooting style, but ever since I got the bow rest changed I cannot for the life of me get the arrow to the middle or right of the target. Everything is left, far left, or way far left. I am sighting down the arrow shaft and was shooting quite well before. I noticed that I was getting so frustrated that I really stopped shooting.
Of the shelf doesn't make much difference in materials but if it's a stick on rest brands can make a huge difference
@@andyrunkel8296 Luckily the only real symptom of this cooflu is fatigue. I don't have any respiratory problems or fever anymore, just really tired.
There aren't any real rules for arrow rests on these modern trad bows. Some people have some kind of rubbery arrow rest and a lot of us just glue leather or fleece to the shelf that goes up along the arrow pass (side of the shelf). I'd say just pull off the rest he put on it and glue a strip of leather on it and see how it works. You'll have to adjust the nocks on the string too.
@@christophertracey7201 I bet.
@@johnjriggsarchery2457 Great tip....That's exactly what I will do. I think the fleece he put on there is just way to wide and is pushing the angle of my arrow way out of normal. Thanks so much!
I will let you know how it goes.
Just an update, the reason it is shooting down I believe is the arrow weight and the balance of the arrows. I'm only doing 125fps because I need those arrows to make the bow less harsh on my elbow and shoulder with its vibrations. However, I did lighten the tips, and it has become a more enjoyable shooter for sure. I checked the tiller and it was correct; the upper limb was of a lighter strength compared to the bottom limb. Also I took your advice and I put in an order for the 10 pack of Sinew :)
@@jkhippie5929 Good deal. As your Bow ages and you get a little string follow it should have even less hand shock.
Hello John, I find that a thin heavy soft spined arrow is good for bendy handle bows with full width handle, has a lot of wood to go round so better have good flexible arrows, I’ve been making thinnest possible shafts from hawthorn, experiment..
@@danielspain7231 HI Daniel, it's all an experiment.
First, hope you get better quickly. No fun being sick. Arrow going down ,...best guess, knocking point needs adjusting ( so right there with you ), or elbow too high on draw, or arrow itself is too heavy ( not spine, actual wood weight ), fletching too large, tip too heavy, might be peeking to see where the arrow goes, or letting down too soon. I wouldn't muck around with the actual bow until all other options can be ruled out. If the gentleman asking this question has already checked all of this, or none of it applies, I apologize for sounding know-it-allish.
@@estelpereira5011 All good advice, on every count. It's a tricky thing to try to picture different speeds of the limbs causing a sideways motion on the string because I keep coming back to, at some point along the string, the motion of the string snapping back will be in a straight line, so just make that the nocking point.
Hand shock on my self bows seems to be almost always outter limb mass unless it's a lam bow with tropical belly lams and those just have some hand shock period
@@christophertracey7201 Interesting. I would have never thought about tropical belly woods and handshock. Could it be because they're high density and or really hard? I'm not familiar with laminating or using woods like that though I wouldn't mind giving it a go.