Arrow length, weight, balance and the "influencers"....continued
First let me preface this post by saying that we are not going to try and persuade anyone from trying or using the popular methods of bare shaft tuning, heavy foc or efoc arrow balancing or using small fletching as is so prevalent in today's archery circles. This entire Blog is devoted to informing archers how the Hill style works, why it works and how to apply it in shooting the Longbow in the Hill manner. Anyone that follows the following posts on arrow making techniques will get great flying arrows with a minimum of fuss. It all starts with proper shooting form before deciding on what kind of arrow to use and how to prepare the arrow for good shooting. We can't get the cart before the horse. Lots of archers get a new Hill style longbow and first thing they're doing is trying to find arrows that will shoot out of it. They need to tune themselves first, get a consistent Hill style shooting form ingrained, then they can find ...
