Due to a recurring tendonitis, I’ve been shooting lefty lately. I’ve played around with a lot of things—form, aiming systems, and such, but one thing has really peaked my interest… a crawl.
I’ve messed around with string walking. I can see why guys use it. My goodness, if you guess the right yardage it’s extremely accurate. Most of my archery interests have been hunting related and I know a lot of folks hunt using it, but I’d always worry about tuning, the animal moving or some such stuff.
In my playing, I found that a ¾” crawl was dead on at 20 yards. At 10 yards I put the tip a little low in the heart/lungs, and at 30 yards I put the tip in the top of the lungs, and all of the arrows fall in the kill zone. It cuts my gap considerably and it appears that I can gather my sight picture more quickly. It appears that I can tune my bow well using a single crawl too. Since about all my hunting shots fall between 10 to 30 yards, I’m thinking this ¾” crawl could prove to be deadly poison. I’m going to play with it more, but I can see a lot of potential to this single-crawl in hunting situations.
Wondering why I haven’t tried this years ago… oh well… it’s been a lot of fun.