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Title: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: KOTAKID on March 16, 2008, 03:20:00 AM
i dont know why this is so hard for me but how do you guys place you knocks?  across the grain or with the grain?     sometimes the easiest things can confuse me so much.  :banghead:
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: Brian Krebs on March 16, 2008, 03:38:00 AM
If your nock breaks; you don't want the string to split down your arrow. So the nock goes on the arrow in such a way that the string lays across the grains; not with them.
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: bowless on March 16, 2008, 07:14:00 AM
Doing what Brian said will also put your arrow grain in correct alignment with the bow.
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: Shaun on March 16, 2008, 08:13:00 AM
And spine is measured accross the grain
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: owlbait on March 16, 2008, 09:06:00 AM
About24"-30" above the door handle and 8"-10" from the door frame  :knothead:
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: Killdeer on March 16, 2008, 09:09:00 AM
Just remember that the slot of the nock goes 90 degrees to the grain.

If you take the lines of the grain, and superimpose them on the slot of the nock, you get a plus, and that's a positive in my book.
Killdeer  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: Killdeer on March 16, 2008, 09:10:00 AM
Owlbait, you're a hoot! And stop shooting in the hallway!

 :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: trapperDave on March 16, 2008, 09:17:00 AM
too funny, Owlbait  :biglaugh:
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: owlbait on March 16, 2008, 10:06:00 AM
I visited my granddaughters yesterday and when my wife showed up I asked the girls who that was. They told me "That's your Mom". So now I have to ask Mom if I can shoot in the basement, but only if I promise not to hit the door  :biglaugh:
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: Killdeer on March 16, 2008, 10:26:00 AM
I'm sure that scored big points with your "Mom"!  :scared:
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: bowdude on March 16, 2008, 11:35:00 AM
On my GT carbons I turn them to where ever I want them.
 :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: X2 on March 16, 2008, 01:24:00 PM
Looking from the top down.

Nock >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> point

The way I put my nocks on is to set the shaft on a table with the nock end facing to my left.  I find where the v's are pointing tward the point and are on top.  Then I line up the throat of my nock to bisect the point of the v.  I always line up my nock index so that the v is on top and pointing toward the point of the shaft, I don't know if this makes sense to you, but that is how I do it.
Title: Re: WOW... knock placement??
Post by: KOTAKID on March 16, 2008, 03:37:00 PM
thanks guys that helped alot