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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5622236" data-attributes="member: 6669384">So, you just blow off every point, and follow with "It should work my way".Color me surprised.Is this the voice of experience talking?  'Cause when I went shooting last weekend (as I do most weekends), that wasn't the way it worked. (Hint:  The "nock" on an arrow is the slot in the base that fits around the bowstring.  The opening is typically narrower at the tip than at the base, so it sort of "clicks" when you get it into place. "Nocking" an arrow is the action of fitting the nock around the string.  You don't "pull, nock, aim" all in one motion, and certainly not in that order.)  In fact, you don't pull the arrow at all.  The nock holds the arrow on the string.  You draw the string back, and the nock draws the arrow with it.Ah, that explains it.  This was wishful thinking, not reality. Seriously Water Bob, all snark aside, try the exercises I suggested in my last post.  Go through the throwing motions with a couple of weighty objects, and throw hard, like you're trying to kill someone on the other end.  The two throws aren't distinct and separate actions.  One flows into the other, overlapping time frames.You're treating them like they are distinct, as if they were unrelated to each other.  Double firing the bow really is two distinct action sequences.As for setting up two arrows...  When you fire a bow, the arrow has to rest on something at the point where it crosses the bow.  On a simple bow, that might be the hand, or a finger.  (No, you don't wrap a finger over the arrow, unless you like missing a lot while getting your finger sliced by the fletchings.)  Most modern bows have a "shelf", a flat area carved out of the grip for this purpose, often containing a quill tip that protrudes for the shaft to rest on.  Without that support, the arrow flops, and can't be fired.Firing two arrows at once is a fantasy.  I've seen one expert do it, but his bow was modified slightly for the purpose, fitted with an extra quill, and even he couldn't hid diddly with it.  So leave such tricks to the movies.  They have no place in real life archery.As a fun note:  For any who try traditional archery (meaning wooden bows and arrows, no sights or counterbalances, no mechanical releases), try the technique called "String Walking".  Normally you draw back to your ear or cheekbone as an anchor point, and the arrow sits some three or four inches below your eye, so you can't sight directly along it.  If you try, you're shooting high.But if you slide (or "walk") your grip down the string you can bring the fletched base of the arrow right to eye level, and the arrow itself becomes your sight.  You're dead on at point blank range.As range increases, you "walk" your grip on the string higher, and continue to use the arrowhead as your sight.  It gives you the benefits of a targeting sight, without actually having to have one.    (Sights really are forbidden in traditional competitions.)</blockquote>

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