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Steve – thanks again for more excellent insights. I thought I had made up my mind, until reading your post and now I’m back to being curious about trying this particular bow again…
Wose – your last sentence is the most important. No matter how long you’ve been shooting, you’ll go through some slumps and some times when it all comes together. But you are already realizing how important one’s mental state is to shooting well, and that can’t be stressed enough, imo.
Steve – thank you for the continued advice. In addition to the changes I made mentioned above, I’ve also been playing around with how I grip the bow as well, and finding that keeping my fingers loose around the grip, but applying more heel pressure than I would with my D/R bows works well. Also, in all this back and forth, I think the handsock issue might have gotten a little over-stated – it’s really not bad at all, and nothing that I don’t expect from this design. It’s really an awesome, fun bow.
Cameron – Wow, fine work!! I think that’s the nicest one of yours I’ve seen so far! I don’t think I’ve ever seen cocobolo and hickory together on a bow before, but it’s a great combo.
Doc Nock wrote:
…I’m not sure if the wind is a product of Texas or some of the Texans?!!!:roll::shock:
I’ll briefly attempt a serious suggestion before we turn it back over the the Doc & Ralph show – I’m willing to bet that reducing fletching a bit may solve the issue. I know the conventional thinking is that one needs large fletching to stabilize a large broadhead, but I wonder if it can also lead to two competing levers at either end of the arrow, creating the effect you’re seeing? I also think that when you get into higher FOC%, that need for a lot of stability from the arse end becomes less.
Of course, I’m only on my first cup of joe after a night of revelry, so take the abve with a grain of salt.
:shock::shock::shock:
Wow, Patrick – that is a stunning NM, for sure. Have you been able to shoot it much yet? I’ve never heard anything but high praise for Turay’s bows (I’m pretty intrigued but the Superior).
And congrats on your last bow!
Ralph –
I probably wasn’t doing a good job of explaining the issue – the bow/arrow combo is tuned in this case, with a brace height at the high end of the suggested range, but being a D-bow with a fair bit of backset, I believe it’s just the nature of the beast that it’s going to have a decent ‘thump’ (though there are still some things that can be done to minimize it). It’s certainly a notable difference from shooting my D/R longbows – not bad, just different, and most noticeable when I haven’t been shooting it in a while. After spending a couple days with it again, it’s not as noticeable. And it’s definitely not as bad as some Hill-style D-bows that will rattle your teeth out of your head.
Here’s a comparison of the two bows that I’m talking about. The one on the left is the regular Primal Styk, the one on the right is the Primal “Overdrive.” The regular Primal is a very smooth and mild-mannered bow to shoot, the Overdrive is a little more “lively” by design, shall we say. Even Dick Robertson told me as much, and that he personally preferred the regular version. But handshock, like recoil, is also somewhat subjective of course, and I don’t mind a certain amount of it:
R2 wrote: Moving your arrow away from the bow a bit will allow you to shoot a stiffer spine….
Hmmm…this particular bow is already cut 1/8″ before center, so I would think that building out the strike plate further would require an even weaker spine in this case, no? Is your bow cut to center, or perhaps past center?
colmike wrote: Underway at 0700 this morning destination Key West. Last minute trip as a boat came in that fits our needs and is available, within budget. Headed down to check it out. Likely have limited internet access, will check back in a couple of weeks. -5 this morning will put as much southing on the van as possible today:D.
It is a “traditional trawler”:lol:
Semper Fi
Mike
Good luck and keep us posted when you can, Mike!
grumpy wrote: Mushroom Bill would put his eye out on that porch ornament..
I probably wouldn’t even notice it.:roll:
Just one of the many “decorations” I have around the place to keep the riff raff out.
FWIW, I strung up the Primal Overdrive with a SBD 8-strand string made of BCY-10, tweaked the brace height a bit, and paired it up with a heavier arrow, and it settled down considerably. It’s much more of a pleasant ‘thump’ upon release now. And man, that bow can smoke a heavy arrow – even more so with the new skinny string…
Nice find, Preston! The country where our bulls tend to hang in the winter is still under a fair bit of snow, so I haven’t been able to get out looking much yet. But I was chukar hunting in western ID a couple weekends ago, and found these:
And here’s a nice elk shed I found a few seasons ago that I just couldn’t resist mounting over our porch:
And my best shed find from last Fall – a matching pair of moose paddles, laying on the ground right next to each other (that’s a 64″ bow for scale). Still not sure what I’m going to do with these, but I was sure stoked to come across them!
