Traditional Archery Setup - Installing The Nock Point

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hey yo this is Mitch with native survival school today we're going to set up a traditional bow stay tuned so in front of me I have two traditional bows I have a 1957 bear archery Kodiak recurve and I have a 2014 bear archery Montana longbow first thing you need to do to set up a traditional bow is to string it up so my Montana has already been done already has a knocked on it both square whatever treatment you plan on putting on your shelf make sure you do it before you set your knock point because any changes you make here will change your nock location if you have padding like a fur rest or a feather rest it's going to raise up where the arrow sits on the rest my Montana has been modified with the fur rest on the face as well as on the shelf square lines up with the shelf clips on

Square set that's going to give me measurements for my knock point goes this line off the shelf represents the bottom of the arrow I'm then going to measure up these are the increments on the bow square so I put my knock in a proper place this line represents the bottom of the our shaft if I take a ruler and line it up you can see the lines match up the bottom brackets on the shelf and bracket the bracket top brackets are 5/8 apart they have sixteenths in between the eighths on the bowl square one two three four five eighths in between you can see that it's 5/8

now depending on the width the arrow depending on quite a few things the size of the nock going in the our shaft changes the width of the our shaft changes where the nock is going to be you want to figure out what works for your shooting style and what works for your bow a good ballpark for eights right around there three aces a good one I found that my bow shoots well at 3/8 plus 1/16 up and that can be seen and with my ruler down and I make a straight edge at the bottom of my Knock it's important the bottom of the nock see here's the bracket one two three eighths and 1/16 for the bottom I knock shoot some arrows set it up a three eighths or four eighths

I like three eighths and a sixteenth I'm running between the two bottom of my knob shoot some arrows and see how they fly that number is a variable all right now for the Kodiak bring it up to the rest

same as before there's a 3/8 let me go up 1/16

this Minot goes so far my fingers at the bottom of the dock exactly where it's supposed to be so I can keep it tight against there I can change the angle get comfortable the stock can move around put up as long as it slides against my fingers that's where it needs to be now I just have to crimp it on but to do it halfway at first make sure it's snug

I want it young go so I think I've got it I just check my NOC location

see what it looks like now's the time to change it I want to go shooting in the woods and find out that it's not right 3/8 1/16 right on the money absolutely perfect one more detail both are knock the location of the gap it's not all the way back it's not all the way sideways towards my fingers it's out of 45 in between the two makes it a little softer as I'm pulling on the arrow of course the arrow clips in right there Sarris to it it's the whole process ready to go I find that sometimes pliers can leave little burrs on the soft metal hold the brass knock little sandpaper can soften it up just lightly brush the nock if you had to just don't belt literally just spin the string while you do it to soften the knock the applies leave any groups or marks it's a beautiful thing Kodiak recurve ready to go set setting up a traditional bow the knock point has to interface the bottom with the arrow at a specific place for the hour to fly properly that's how I measure it and get it the same on every single bow the other measurement that needs to be done is the brace height a good way to get that done without any rulers is a hand and a thumb right there manufacturers usually print or post their recommended brace Heights it's usually around 7 inches sometimes 7 and a half inches that's the ballpark that's all there is to it to having a consistent shooting with your traditional bows so the nock point is in the same spot every single time on every single bow and that's one less variable while you're pulling on the string that you need to worry about there's been Mitch for the native Bible school or show check out our web site near swab walk calm and as always enjoy the outdoors