This is the first year I have made selfbows and tried to hunt with them.With a recurve I hardly ever get string slap.With my custom longbows it happens some when shooting from elevated stands.With my selfbows it happens most of the time.I think I have been smacking leather all summer practicing,just never thought about it until I started hunting.With this cold weather and all the clothes it is even worse.I tape my clothes wear armguards and everthing.Still seem to get string slap.Does anyone else have this problem?Do you think it is my grip?Just trying to find some answers.I shot at a deer today.Sounded like a rifle crack when the string hit my arm,deer ducked,broke an arrow over it's back.I really want to harvest a deer with one of my selfbows,if I keep this up I am gonna have to use a recurve or longbow...Thank you Joe
What's your bow braced at? I brace most of my selfbows at around 6-1/4 to 6-1/2" and always got wrist slap with b50 strings... so I switched to using TS-1 stings. No more wrist slap and the bows definitely shoot much faster, quieter, and better (for me).
I have braced them at 6 1'2 to 7".My strings are all b50.
My first and only selfbow slaps my wrist almost everytime I shoot, due to the fact that it came out a bit to short and the brace height is way too low. If I get it up to around 6.5 in. the draw length gets way to short for my 29 in. draw. Hope this helps. Allan
selfbows hit the wrist. That's why everyone wheres an armguard.
It(should not hit so hard as to sound like a shot.
If you are not torquing the bow around to cause a bad slap(ie grabbing the bow too hard or causing rotation when you release), and the brace height is correct(I check using the fistmele measurement) Then possibly the arrow weight is a little light.
Just a thought. I have been shooting self bows for many years and when I am shooting well the bow string hitting my arm is not noticable. Take off the armguard and it is obvious it is still happening.
BigArcher