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Title: BH and NH For Dale Dye Recurve
Post by: WildmanSC on August 12, 2008, 12:29:00 PM
What BH and NH (3 fingers under)do you folk use on your Dale Dye T/D recurves?  Also, if you have a non-FF 62" T/D Dye recurve, what length B50 string do you use?  My Dye T/D is 62", 54#@28".  I did a review of it in the Product Review forum.

Bill
Title: Re: BH and NH For Dale Dye Recurve
Post by: Frank1107 on August 12, 2008, 01:09:00 PM
Bill,

57" string on a 62" (56" on a 60"). Brace height 7 3/4" - 8" always worked on all of the Dye bows have or had (including the one I got from you)Nock height, you have to play with depending on arrow, release, etc.

Frank
Title: Re: BH and NH For Dale Dye Recurve
Post by: 1/4 away on August 12, 2008, 01:37:00 PM
Bill, I shoot split fingers but my Dye's BH is set at 8" and my nock is 1/2" above center.  Fred
Title: Re: BH and NH For Dale Dye Recurve
Post by: WildmanSC on August 12, 2008, 03:03:00 PM
Frank/Fred,

Thanks for your responses.  I'll check tonight and see where I have the BH and NH set.  Frank, I know you are shooting a B50 bow.  Fred, how about you?  I've given some thought to sending the bow off to have it reinforced for FF, but as it is it flings a 625 gr arrow, 11.6 gr/pdf, pretty good.  And it is very quiet and dead in the hand.  So, I think I'm going to keep it just like it is.

Bill
Title: Re: BH and NH For Dale Dye Recurve
Post by: 1/4 away on August 12, 2008, 04:16:00 PM
Bill, Mine is B50 as well and is dead quiet. My carbon arrows weigh in at 580gr and are flyin plenty fast for me. I see no need for FF on this bow.
Title: Re: BH and NH For Dale Dye Recurve
Post by: WildmanSC on August 12, 2008, 07:15:00 PM
My BH is 8".  I'll have to wait until I go to the Archery Shop on Saturday to check the NH.  It shot real well where I have it for my 3-under grip.

Bill
Title: Re: BH and NH For Dale Dye Recurve
Post by: Danny Rowan on August 12, 2008, 09:40:00 PM
Bill, I shoot split finger and my Dye is at 8 1/4"BH and 9/16 nock dead silent and plenty fast,the string is 58" on this 62" bow. I shoot the same arrows as I shoot out of my ff bows and it is everybit as fast as they are even though it is b50 only. I have a 64" set of ff limbs I am gonna try on it that are 64#.

Danny
Title: Re: BH and NH For Dale Dye Recurve
Post by: WildmanSC on August 14, 2008, 10:12:00 AM
Danny,

Yes, the Dye is surprisingly fast for a bow shooting a B50 string.  The limbs have a rather exaggerated hook on the ends, very similar to a Wapiti recurve by Chastain.  The Dye bow, however, is a much sharper looking bow in every respect than the Chastain bows.

Bill