String Tuning: Follow up
For those who have decided to try a thicker string on your Hill style / ASL longbow...kudos. I hope you give a decent try, hundreds if not thousands of shots before you decide to like it or not. Just a few follow-up thoughts: Firstly, I directed these comments on string tuning with a thicker string to the shooters of straight-limb longbows, as Hill and Schulz directed. Not to recurve shooters, or deflex-reflex bow shooters, or any other archery. I directed the comments to hunters who use the straight-limb longbows as compared to target shooters wanting to try for every perceived advantage available to shoot tight groups in the backyard or on the range. Going back to one of my earliest blog posts, the straight-limb Hill style longbow/ASL has a distinct feel or hum when it is shot as originally designed so many years ago. If someone coming from other types of archery to this type of bow will notice, there isn't the quick snap tight feel that a recurve has. I recom
