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Dental Floss or Brass Nock ?

Started by Bob Macioch, January 10, 2008, 01:19:00 PM

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Bob Macioch

I just got my new Turkey Creek Longbow and was wonder which nock is better for bowhunting?

Thanks
Bob M
Hunt for you! Dont worry what others will say,if your happy with what you shoot who really cares what anyone else thinks.You will be happier in the long run and hunting will remain the fun way to get meat for your entire life.Enjoy the journey

Dirty Bill

I've always used the brass nock.I nock under it,that way you don't have to look to put an arrow on the string.   :campfire:

vermonster13

A floss or sting nock will do the same thing. But it won't cut your glove and is about 1' per second faster if you're trying to squeeze every little bit out of your bow.
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wtpops

I shoot 3 under and use both a brass on top and a ff string matrial tie on below
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jeff / sc

I'm currently using B50 string material tied on for my nocking point above the arrow.  At least for me, the brass nocks cut my tab. I have also used dental floss and FF serving material...the B50 is just handy and cheap.

ks_stickbow

I use a nock for setup. it's just easier for me to be able to open it and close a couple times. For some reason I cannot make my tie on nocks to move. Once they are on they are on.

Once I get a bow tuned in I switch to a floss.

Molson

I use serving string. Like Verm said, saves on glove wear.
"The old ways will work in the future, but the new ways have never worked in the past."

NorthShoreLB

Yeah, serving string or artificial sinew.
"Almost none knows the keen sense of satisfaction which comes from taking game with their own homemade weapons"

-JAY MASSEY-

Killdeer

I usually hunt with bare fingers...no brass nocks for me!

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Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

~Longfellow

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TexMex

Ditto on the serving string or artificial sinew, after watching 'Hitting like Howard Hill' I started nocking above.

kadbow

I used and liked brass knocks except for the fact that the brass knock would occassionaly scratch my riser when transporting the bow unstrung.  Now its fast flight.
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Can Hahaka

I tune by cutting white medical tape to about 3/16" wide and wrap aroound. Then typically move up or down in 3/16" increments until tuned to my likin'. Then I floss it.
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GENESIS 27:3 - Now therefore, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow and go out to the field and take me some venison.

Stone Knife

I started out with brass but now all I use is dental floss.
Proverbs 12:27
The lazy do not roast any game,
but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.


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Curtiss Cardinal

I used to use brass nocks, tried dental floss and will never go back, It is superior in that it is very adaptable and doesn't effect arrow speed at all.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain
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Widowbender

I use serving material or braided fishing line. I usually just mark the string when tuning, then serve on a nock above and below.

David
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JBiorn

The brassies would peel the hair off of a new tab in a days' shooting. I switched to a Martin shooting glove, and the brassies had my top finger scratched up in three shots---thats when I switched to serving string.

Larry247

serving string is the way to go. IMO
A trophy is in the eye of the beholder.

Apex Predator

30# braided dacron fishing line.  Tie five knots alternating front to back.  Very secure, but with the ability to screw up or down the serving if needed.
I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables!

Sixby

I serve mine with fastflight, you can screw the knot up and down to tune and when tuned 1 drop of superglue and its permanently in place. I used to use one below and one above now just one above. its too easy when you are on an animal to accidently nock the arrow below the lower knot. I'll give you one guess as to what happens. We learn these things by bad experiences.

Ausable

I use Berkley fireline and a drop of superglue.
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