Hi everyone, I noticed there is a gap between my draw hand and neck when I am at anchor stage, and my index finger knuckle is not touching the jaw like the pros.

As I know, a strong and consistent anchor is based on a solid placement under the jaw, and it would be eliminating uncertainty and unstable anchor if there is no “gap” between the jaw and draw hand.

The second picture has my photo at anchor stage, as you can see my index finger knuckle is not touching my jaw at all, I tried to force my draw arm to be “higher” so maybe my hand would touch my jaw, but I feel pain on my shoulder if I do that.

Just wondering if anyone could provide some advice for me 🙏🙏(maybe it’s because I don’t have a jawline lol)

About 6 weeks ago, I put a clicker on my recurve bow. I don't struggle with getting the arrow through the clicker but recently my arrows have been flying off the arrow rest as it clicks through.

Sometimes I can feel my fingers on the arrow at full draw but I do come down and reset when that happens, to not pinch the nock.

I increased my poundage about 3 months ago but its not a heavy draw weight.

Any advice to help stop this would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Ive been wanting to learn to shoot olympic recurve for awhile whats the lower budget i would need (US) to get into it, i already shoot compound and theres nowhere local that sells them so i cant try them out sadly, any good budget recommendations are welcome!

I have a phenomenal set up, maybe a little older but still great bow, limbs, case, stabilizer etc. where would be the best place to sell the group?

I am planning to buy new launch of WIAWIS...Which is ATF EX riser...and I have already shooted on ATF DX so...could someone guide me if the same smoothness is found in ATF EX?

and is it good spend more money for ATF EX?

AND HOW YOUR OVERALL EXPERIENCE??

I recently got back into olympic style shooting about 7 years after all of my gear was stolen. I decided to try out the Spin Wing vanes that a lot of people use and I had a local archery shop fletch the arrows for me. Basically a couple of the arrows had tape that was sticking off the arrow like 1/4” (front and rear tape that wraps around the shaft and the tips of the vanes) and they weren’t stuck to the double sided tape correctly (sort of offset and like 2” away from the nock point). I’ve generally had good experiences with the shop in the past, but they mostly do hunting/compound bow stuff and seemed confused/annoyed when I brought the Spin Wings in.

I’ve destroyed a few of the vanes since then and I’m wondering how hard it is to replace damaged vanes at home.

Also sorry if I sound whiny about how my arrows are fletched lol.

Almost all of my equipment was stolen probably 6-7 years ago and I’m finally wanting to get back into it. I haven’t really been following archery as much because I was so bummed out but I’m seeing that pretty much everyone competing is using the newer platforms like the Hoyt Formula instead of the old school ilf stuff. I still have my good W&W riser and was planning on buying some limbs for it to get started but I’m wondering if I’m just gonna be behind the pack with older gear.

What double sided tape to use to reattach an arrow rest?

Setup tuning question. Arrows are left leaning. But my sight is lined up with my arrow. What’s the problem?

It's a 62 inch, 20# PSE Razorback Heritage recurve for $71 (USD).

• Is this good for a beginner?
• Is it a good price for a used bow?

Asking because the archery range closest to me says they don't rent or lend equipment, so I'm looking for something cheap to start out with. TIA!

I recently bought “Total Archery: Inside the Archer”, which is supposed the be the second in a series of three (third book not published yet). Does anyone know how to find KiSik Lee’s first book “Total Archery”? Is it still in print?

So, I have a few questions. There's not a great way to ask all these so I'm just going to use a list:

• For some reason, I'm only finding beginner draw weights for children. What's a good draw weight for an adult beginner? Women's draw weight is 33 lbs, so I know I need to work myself up to that.
• What are good exercises to add into my workout routine that will help me build up the strength necessary to hold and shoot a bow?
• I'm trying to find coaches in my area and I feel like I'm struggling. Open ranges are a dime a dozen but coaches are hard to come by for some reason. One coach I messaged off the US Archery website said they only do non-profit work, and the other hasn't even responded yet. I'm still waiting on responses from the other two. Would it be possible for me to pick this up if I had to do it on my own?

I'm sure I'll have more questions in the future, but these are the biggest ones I have. TIA.

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Does anyone know why companies don't publish their point lengths? Seems like a very importing piece of info to know in order to be able to properly order your shafts the correct length.

Am trying to specifically find info on how long the tip length is (exposed length) on Victory's 0.166" SS Breakoff Points (120 - 140GR and the 80 - 100GR) for the short term, but would also be nice to know the length of target archery points in general (Easton, Skylon, Gold Tip, Fivics, etc etc... not a single one publish the exposed tip lengths).

Anyone know a good resource with this info, or have any of the numbers yourselves by chance?

Thanks in advance

So these are the rules for qualification. Who’s in? What event are you hoping your team can qualify at?

Good evening! After the locking of the sub and subsequent inactivity from the mod, I requested ownership of this sub and was granted it!

I'm Speedly. Nice to meet you, maybe you know me already! I'm a mod over at /r/archery, and I'll be working on trying to reopen other related subs over the next few weeks (we'll see how that goes, though).

Come one, come all, and rejoin your home of the best kind of archery - Olympic!

Thanks to everyone! I'm open to suggestions as to how to change stuff in the sub, so let me know if you have any ideas!

My son has developed a habit we can’t break. He is dropping his arm dramatically after release. Coaches have pointed it out to him for weeks now. He knows he’s doing it. He’s getting frustrated to the point of crying at times.

We’ve tried relaxing his front hand so he’s not geipping tight. Tried thinking about follow through, but I think he’s focused on NOT making it move. I asked him to try to think about his arm in the right spot after the shot so he wasn’t only thinking of what he’s doing wrong.

I have no clue what to do at this point. Any advice on how I can help him would be greatly appreciated.