just wondering how everyone grasp riser to shoot .
open pressure in the cradle of your hand or closed hand grasping grip on riser . I know everyone shoots which ever way works for them but curious!
------Black Wolf 68" 57#@28 ------
------Tall Tines 60" 52#@28" -----
------ Tall Tines 60"45#@28" -----
Snug on the heel of the hand, most pressure along the life line. Fingers closed around the grip, but not squeezing it - just enough to hold it in place.
Open hand, with as little tension in hand as possible. My thumb and pointer finger touch each other so the bow will not jump out of my hand at the shot. the other 3 fingers touch the riser when I start, but are not touching at full draw.
Bisch
Like Rough Run.
I fully seat my palm in the grip with the knuckles on a 45 degree angle. Lightly holding the grip so my mind will know I have it and prevent "grabbing" the bow at release. I don't use a sling on a recurve.
I lightly grasp my bow with the heel of the handle in the saddle of my palm, the drawling of my string is all the pressure that I want with cantering my bow. grabbing my bow to firmly only torques my bow to much. Handle it like a woman is what I always been taught.
I lightly grasp my bow with the heel of the handle in the saddle of my palm, the drawling of my string is all the pressure that I want with cantering my bow. grabbing my bow to firmly only torques my bow to much. Handle it like a woman is what I always been taught.
Never thought about it to be honest lol.. I just put my hand in the exact same spot every time. I have no sequence to gripping the bow. One less thing to think about.
With my longbow I hold it firmly, otherwise I focus more on grabbing my bow after the shot then focusing on what I need to do. With my recurves, I grip them mainly with my thumb, and top two fingers. The others just rest on the riser but don't really grip the bow.
I shoot Longbow, and I use a low grip with locator.
I put the bows draw weight against the mid to low part of my palm. As a guess, 70% mid, 30% low. I do not touch the shelf side of the riser at all, allowing a cavern to form in my hand with space between bow and hand. I hold pinky and ring finger off, and out of the way touching nothing. My index finger pad, and my middle finger pad is gently placed on the grips face dead center, never putting any more pressure then necessary to just keep the bow in place when shot. My wrist is turned with pinky hand knuckle at 8 O'clock, pointer hand knuckle at 2 O'clock. I use a slight cant for the bow. Thumb is touching, but layed on loosely to the locator, never firmly.
In between open and closed, just relaxed. Hand slides onto grip putting the pressure point in the right place then a little string tension to keep it there.
First thing I do when starting to tune a new bow is shoot blank bale finding the grip pressure point that lets the bow jump towards target.
Selfbows: heel of my hand takes most of the pressure. The tip of my index finger presses lightly on the back of the handle, creating a V-notch with my knuckle and the arrow pass. I can feel the back of the point with the back of my index finger.
Recurves: pretty close to Fred Asbell's grip style.
Never heel down. Straight high grip into the throat of the grip, but not exaggerated. Firm but not strained. Thats on my current shooter a new make 59 kodiak.
Tedd