Well, I finally got my new longbow home. Built by John Holzrichter here in town. Awesome bowyer and phenomonal shooter. However, I have a few questions about making the transtion from center shot recurve to round the riser longbow.

I got to shoot for about an hour yesterday, but the environment was a bit polluted with young, noisy kids. Not that I don’t like kids, but you understand. I was having a hard time concentrating and the results of shots showed this well. I noticed that the string would catch the under side of my short sleeve t-shirt under my bow arm under arm frequently and this would throw my shot waaay off. Any thoughts on that?

My intended point of impact seems to elude the point of my arrows quite a bit and I realize that there are drastic differences between center shooting recurves and longbows cut shy of center. There’s soft velcro on the shelf and in the window of the riser, and I wonder if changing the window to thin leather would make a difference by bringing the arrow closer to center..?? I wrapped the handle with suede leather to get it to ‘fill out’ a little better in my hand and help me to hold it more consitently upon draw and release.

It seems to like the 400 spined Beman MFX Classic shafts with 225 grains up front, opposed to the 500 spine in the same shaft John recommends.

Here are a few pictures I took during the rainy day we had today. Glad we finally got some rain!!