D ring or String loop?

[royden]

Very nice Shaman - good color pick too

[stilllearning]

OK I cut the loop to aproximatly 4.5 + inches and tied it on after marking were the D ring was. I am glad the ring was removed as I could see were it was compressing the string.
The look of the loop seams to be similar to the one in the photos, by the way thank you, and I did the tighting of it with the pliers. I will go out some time today and put an arrow on and bring it to full draw to see if it holds. I figure with the arrow on it if It does not hold then the arrow will take the pressure off the bow if it slips when it goes down range. I may loose an arrow but not a bow again.
Let me know as I am going to wait untill I hear from you folks before shooting it.

top limb to the left if that matters.

[BT]

Bring those hitches together.
You are weakening the hitch with them spread apart like that.
Did you melt the ends so that they where balled and larger so it would not slip by the string as pressure increased.
If you do all of that you'll be fine.

[stilllearning]

did the melting and I will bring the hitches close together.

Thanks

[BT]

shaman said:

Very nice Shaman!

[royden]

It's not a big deal still- but you'll notice in #10 of shaman's pics the left side of the loop you see the rope going around the standing part of the knot - in the right side you don't see the rope going around , instead you see the melted ball on the end. that string loop is tied so that the loop pulls both on the right side of the string and left side.

yours is tied with the loop material all on the right side when the bow is upright in shooting position. I'm not sure with-out a nock for reference, but I think your loop is slightly too large: you should have enough room for the nock and your release to grab the loop but not too much excess - any extra just shortens your draw length. Did you use needle nose pliers jammed between string and loop and then spread open to tighten everything? If so then good job...!

[stilllearning]

Royden should I take it off and try again?

This was my first attempt.

[royden]

After you shot it a few times how much did it stretch and lengthen out? If it's not too long then no I wouldn't lose any sleep over the knot position.

If your in doubt as to the length then a pic from the side of the string loop with an arrow nocked may be in order.....

How is your draw length now? Still got the left arm bent a little and right elbow in line with the arrow when drawn and anchored?

[SPIKER]

You can always loosen one side of the loop, and shorten it. Cut off the ball, and re melt it.

[stilllearning]

I did find it very hard to tie on at this length but if you guys think it should be I will do it. I did untie it and made sure the loops were on the oposite sides of the loop and took some pics. Sorry they are not better. The last pic is relative to what BT was asking a long time ago. The light was getting very dim and still not bad if the deer had been in the open instead of up in the edge of the woods like it is. I took the shots as I wanted to see how easy it would be to still get a good shot on bambi. wow bambi was hard to see and could not be sure of where I was aming. I would not take this shot on a real deer as I would not have enough like to be sure it was a buck. But here are the pics anyway starting with the loop.



Just proves why I would not take this shot. to dark.