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    • Ralph
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        This first pic I have no problem with, I researched and found similar results when the arrow is loosed;

        This second one, it looks like I was really sloppy on that release but golly, this is scary:

        One thing about it, against all odds, my game camera I keep in the backyard to keep an eye for two legged varmints got lucky twice to get these pics.

      • raghorn
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          This is normal. String does not stay tight. This is what can cause arm slap. Changing brace height, silencers, release can all change/affect string oscillation.

        • Ralph
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            Yeah, I know the strings do that it’s just the second was pretty radical. Trying to show what a bad release or short draw can cause.

            Definitely a loss of efficiency to my way of thinking. 😀

          • Doc Nock
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              I can’t see how a string does anything that the limbs don’t allow it to do!

              Such oscillations would seem to be related to the limbs twanging like a tuning fork…

            • Stephen Graf
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                The picture is not true to life, as they say. It’s a digital camera phantom. Something about the way the photo sensor, or eye or whatever you want to call it records the image. If it’s a really fast thing, it doesn’t record it correctly.

                Think how long that string would have to be to take that shape.

                Really cool that it took the picture though. Go buy a lottery ticket, quick!

              • Ralph
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                  Good point Steve. Hadn’t thought about how long the string would have to be.

                  The neatest thing is the odds of the action twice being caught “on film”, an archaic expression that is anymore.

                • Doc Nock
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                    If you look closely at the lower limb, (lower photo) where it comes off the fades, there is a lot more “kink” in the lower limb then the top at that location.

                    badly timed limbs oscillating out of synch, surely would allow the string to ‘dance’ to some effect, wouldn’t they Steve???!

                    I’ve seen super High Speed video in slow mo, of limbs when the arrow leaves the string… they flopped and flailed around like a beached carp on a hot sidewalk!

                    If limbs are dancing, the string affixed to both ends, isn’t sitting still, —-it’s doing the Hoochey Coo.

                  • Jason Wesbrock
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                      Steve Graf is absolutely correct. This is due to how a digital camera captures a photo. Your camera’s sensor is made up of individual pixels that are recorded one at a time, very rapidly. Unlike a photograph taken with film, a digital photo is not all recorded at the exact same instant.

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