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hill brace height? need help

Started by Romans3, January 23, 2009, 01:51:00 PM

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Romans3

I just got my first hill bow. It's a big five 66" long. What brace heights do you all find best for your hill bows?
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Orion

I set my 66-inch Big 5 at 6 3/4.  6 5/8 inches also works for me.

Rob Fin

I used to own a 66" Big 5 and it also worked best around 6 5/8" brace height.

Bill Turner

Craig would tell you 6 and 1/4 to 6 and 1/2. I prefer mine at 6 and 1/2.

JRY309

I usally set my Hill's from 6&3/8" to 6&1/2" except my reverse handle Hill I set it at 7-7&1/4".But most of them I set at 6&1/2",I also cut my fletching from 5&1/2" down to 5".

Wannabe1

I have 2 66" Hill bows and both shoot well at 6 5/8". Good luck with that bow.
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SpankyNeal

Anywhere between 6 1/4 and 6 3/4 will work. My 66" bows seem to shoot best around 6 3/8 - 6 1/2. Start low and work high to find the sweet spot for your setup and shooting style.

Ken
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66" 59# "White Dragon"
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Daddy Bear

The sweet spot for my 66inchers is between 6 1/4 to 6 3/8ths inches. I think those are fairly cookie cutter standard settings for a Hill bow of that length.

Dick in Seattle

These suggestions definitely put you in the ball park, but you'll have to find your own best answer.  A clearly specific answer would only apply if all the bows were identical, tillered the same and shot from a machine.  How you draw, how you shoot, your form, etc... heck, probably even the arrow, make differences that add up.  

If you want to really worry about all of that, it can keep you up all night.   I just finished a longbow today - flatbow, actually - and made it a string tonight.  I set it up by the old fistmele method and will twist it up and do so again in the morning, to accomodate however much it stretches during the night.  That's the way it'll get shot till I get around to paper tuning it with a specific arrow.
Dick in Seattle

"It ain't how well the bow you shoot shoots, it's how well you shoot the bow you shoot."

Romans3

thanks all, I think 6 1/2 is shooting pretty nice. I'm gonna stick with that.
"conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ" Phil. 2:27


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