All 400 spine. Sorry thought I said that with all the other info

Seems odd with such a short arrow and a fairly stiff spine you are shooting right. Can you take a photo of your rest. Whats the shelf of the riser look like?

Sure , I can take a while video of me shooting it if you'd like just tell me what you need to see and what angle

Where are you holding the string? Where on your fingers?

I don't see any shelf pad or strike plate so that arrow is bouncing off hard wood. Get rid of the rubber finger things and replace with a proper nock point, get a calf hair tab to save your fingers. Nock your arrow under the nock point. You mentioned taking 50 or more shots in a session. Half a dozen good shots two or three times a day will get you a lot farther quicker. Shoot one arrow and then go get it, repeat a half dozen times. Starting out you should really be going through the blind bale routine. Shoot at 8 to 10 FEET. It develops form which at this point from what I can see in your video is somewhat lacking. Your forearm needs to be in line with the shaft. When at full draw you should be squeezing your shoulder blades together. Once you have your form then you can start bare shaft shooting to figure out what spine shafting you need.

As a rule most recurves will lose 2 1/2 to 3 pounds in draw weight per inch under their spec weight. On average a recurve shooters draw length will be 1 to 1 1/2 inches shorter than their compound draw length. So a little math tells me you could be drawing as little as 41#. Plenty enough to get a complete pass through on the rib cage of a deer using a two blade cut on contact head like a Magnus Stinger.

PM me if you have any questions. I've been shooting traditional for 60 plus years.

Ok been getting a lot of advice from a lot of people and think I'm getting better and able to at least hit center every few now

Well that ain’t the issue

This is what it's like oh if the box but just added some Velcro to it

Also does this arrow look like it's flying right ?

Try that shot again. But this time cant your bow a little. Do you have any arrows with a little weaker spine
? Or a little longer will also make them a little weaker.

No not yet ,all my arrows for this bow are 400 spine

Get ya a 3-under tab and go with it.

Honestly don't know about tabs and forgot to order a glove with this bow and the arrows so had to use the finger savers because by the time I got a glove in if be going back on the boat. Kinda miffed no one withing 100mi had trad stuff in stock.will say though kinda worried about ordering a glove . I wear a women's small in work gloves so have a feeling getting a glove that will fit will be a pain
Would have been nice if I could have found a pice of leather to make a tab but no luck there

The top tab is a style i made that works for me. I shoot modified split which is the two fingers under on the string, index finger points straight ahead, anchor the well of my thumb and index over my cheek bone. Reason i show this photo is the bottom tab is a beater. You can make one from a scrap piece of leather in no time. Gake that god awful thing off the string. Set your nock 1/2” higher than the shelf for a start


Looks like the velcro is an improvement. I also use beavertail for this
Lots of fiddling to do with trad bows. Bareshafting is a good thing to do too. Keep experimenting. Let us know how you progress

So took some advice from Matt and added a few more pics of Velcro to basically push my arrow over and seems to be working only 7yd (22f to be exact )but still



Really wanna shoot more ....but my fingers really friggen hurt guess I'll call it a night......or idk my compound looks a little lonely

Interesting if I can fine a piece of leather tomorrow I'll try and make one of those. Honestly the whole constant fiddling thing is perfect for me.if you give me something that works perfect automatically I'll usually either say neat and put it on the wall and no touch it again till I need it , loose interest, or wat usually happens is I try and tear it apart and modify it Gotta love ADHD

Im the same way.

That one photo i showed is the beavertail on the rest and generally one layer does me fine. I do have one short recurve that is very temperamental and i had to push the riser out like you did. I use contact cement for the leather and i stacked some hard leather underneath until it pushed me to center. I like what you did but from personal experience, the velcro wears quickly and the way you packed it out might mash over time. Im sure youll find a solution.

Next youll start making your own arrows. You’re screwed!

Nice D. T. !