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Title: First Finger Joints
Post by: MJB on June 26, 2007, 07:51:00 PM

With this be considered a deep hook ?

Thank You,
Mike

Title: Re: First Finger Joints
Post by: katman on June 26, 2007, 08:52:00 PM

no pic Mike

For me a deep hook is string in the second joint from the finger tip

Title: Re: First Finger Joints
Post by: MJB on June 26, 2007, 09:22:00 PM

Gery ,
Sorry about that. I should of worded it better. Is the first joint on your fingers referred to or considered a deep hook.

I was thinking the second joints, I'm new at this and didn't know for sure...

Thank You   :thumbsup:

Title: Re: First Finger Joints
Post by: MJB on June 26, 2007, 11:12:00 PM

ttt

Title: Re: First Finger Joints
Post by: Terry Green on June 26, 2007, 11:43:00 PM

I don't know what the 'clarification' is...but I 'hook' on the string at the 1st joints.

I started out on the tips, or pads, and shot like that for a while....then I got a suggestion from a well known shooter to hook on instead....and I never looked back.

1. The bow automatically felt 10 pounds lighter.

2. I felt more in control of the bow and shot.

3. I got a lot better release due to not having all that tension in the back of my hand.

4. The bow was quieter on the shot.

5. I was more accurate

Title: Re: First Finger Joints
Post by: MJB on June 26, 2007, 11:55:00 PM

Terry,
THANK YOU .. I tried the 'hook' on the string at the 1st joints today. Seemed like a world of difference to me.

Title: Re: First Finger Joints
Post by: katman on June 27, 2007, 09:25:00 PM

When shooting a glove I prefer to hook in the first joint, but with a tab I get a much cleaner release with a deep hook, second joint. Just experiment and see what gives you a clean consistent release and the tightest groups.

Title: Re: First Finger Joints
Post by: MJB on June 27, 2007, 09:44:00 PM

Katman   :thumbsup:    :campfire:

Title: Re: First Finger Joints
Post by: ejwitman on June 29, 2007, 05:46:00 AM

I am not new to traditional since that is all we had when I started, but am being reborn.  Like the first joint myself.  Spent my first 37 years in Sch Haven.  Now live in south carolina.  Good luck.  Killed my first buck behind Hidden Valley
Golf Course.

Title: Re: First Finger Joints
Post by: MJB on June 29, 2007, 01:14:00 PM

Ed,
Small world, I live up by the Old Hill Farm Dairy on Schuylkill St soon as you crest the top of the hill third house on the right.

Agh Hidden Valley brings back allot of memories. Lots of big deer back in there. Used to be able to walk across the golf course to get back in.

Times have changed and no longer able to get back in there from the golf parking lot.

I poke around out at Tumbling Run, I'm sure you know where that is   :thumbsup:    :campfire: