12-01-2006, 08:10 PM
This is the point I was trying to make in my comment on the fletching looking the wrong way round. With the nock cut into the arrow, I can shoot an arrow with the fletch just 1/2 " to 3/4 " up the shaft without any bother using a three finger hook on the string and the fletch used would avoid me crushing the feather all together. Native American techniques are unfamiliar to me, pinching the arrow, but I have just tried a technique inspired by this thread. I hold the arrow with thumb and forefinger, and hook the string with middle and ringfinger. It feels most strange and the arrow tended to roll of the rest to the left, but the drawweight was no great problem.
