Pretty good news…
I went to the local archery shop today to pick the owner’s brain with the questions I had here and what a delight he was!
He deals and tunes a sort’s of bows, but he shoots traditional so his insight was great. I was able to keep my 3555’s at the length I had, so it was on to the fine tuning. I shot a couple times with bare shafts and the nock set as I had it. The arrow was hitting the target with the knock end at almost a 45 degree angle. First he determined that my bow was really not designed to be shot off the shelf as the riser is more contoured on the shelf rather than a straight angle 90 degree cut. We took the bear hair off and put on a classy looking rest where the old spring rest was that origanally came on it. We put on a 145gr. tip vs. the 100’s I had and it helped a lot. Then he raised my nock to an appropriate level and showed me how to set the brace height. It’s at 7.5. After that the arrows were flying true and straight into the target. The owner was so gracious and willing to teach me how to do these things on my own. I bought like a starter jig from him and now look forward to fletching and on to more practice. Thank you guys for getting me to the right direction with your suggestions.
