Is this okay?

[W_Ellison2011]

I still shoot my 20 year old compound bow for deer hunting. Still has the old hard plastic arrow rest on it. Anytime I buy arrows now I have to pull the knocks out and rotate so the odd color is facing out at 9 oclock when knocked. If I don't do that my groupings open up quite a bit. I feel like even if I buy a newer bow... I will still turn the knocks just because that's how I was taught and that has always worked for me. So as the others have said! TURN THOSE KNOCKS! lol

[redi]

If shooting with fingers it is fine. If using a release you should switch rests to one that pushes down or a fall away style. If you switch rests you want the cock feather Down.

[BB11b]

I had the same issue upon further inspection I found that my top limb was slightly bent. Get inspected ASAP


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[Jpmiller]

I still shoot my 20 year old compound bow for deer hunting. Still has the old hard plastic arrow rest on it. Anytime I buy arrows now I have to pull the knocks out and rotate so the odd color is facing out at 9 oclock when knocked. If I don't do that my groupings open up quite a bit. I feel like even if I buy a newer bow... I will still turn the knocks just because that's how I was taught and that has always worked for me. So as the others have said! TURN THOSE KNOCKS! lol

When and why did this stop being the normal fletching/nock orientation? I bought new arrows for the first time in a long time last year and was very confused.

[W_Ellison2011]

I still shoot my 20 year old compound bow for deer hunting. Still has the old hard plastic arrow rest on it. Anytime I buy arrows now I have to pull the knocks out and rotate so the odd color is facing out at 9 oclock when knocked. If I don't do that my groupings open up quite a bit. I feel like even if I buy a newer bow... I will still turn the knocks just because that's how I was taught and that has always worked for me. So as the others have said! TURN THOSE KNOCKS! lol

When and why did this stop being the normal fletching/nock orientation? I bought new arrows for the first time in a long time last year and was very confused.

I want to say I started noticing it about 4-5 years ago. Idk why they changed it... Good set of pliers and a little wiggling gets the knocks out though. That's what I do and then align them so the odd fletching is out when knocked on my bow. I also sometimes just replace with the lumenoks now. I also love the fact that with my older bow.. I really don't need to tune it like a lot of these other guys have to do with the newer bows. I can go buy arrows and cut them down to length, flop the knock, throw a head on, and they shoot just fine. I'm not saying I stack all my arrows together touching but I group pretty well on targets and the deer never seem to get the memo other than that an arrow just took out their heart and/or lungs lol.

[BULLBLASTER]

Ive been shooting with a vane at 12 o’clock as long as I’ve been shooting bows. At least 14 years.
The odd vane out is from and for bows shooting off a shelf or right up next to the riser. Like trad bows. That create the least amount of interference

[Karl Blanchard]

Ive been shooting with a vane at 12 o’clock as long as I’ve been shooting bows. At least 14 years.
The odd vane out is from and for bows shooting off a shelf or right up next to the riser. Like trad bows. That create the least amount of interference

  same but 20 years bow shooting.  I'd say 90%+ compound shooters are running vane up at 12 o'clock

[W_Ellison2011]

Ive been shooting with a vane at 12 o’clock as long as I’ve been shooting bows. At least 14 years.
The odd vane out is from and for bows shooting off a shelf or right up next to the riser. Like trad bows. That create the least amount of interference

ok. Idk if it was just me then but all the arrows I bought before 4-5 years ago had the odd vein or fletching out when knocked and it you wanted it different you had to switch the knock. Now it's I have to switch the knock so that the odd color is out. It takes a few minutes to do a bunch of arrows but it is what it is. hence why I'm debating getting into making my own from blank shafts. My compound has the old school glued on plastic shelf.

[Karl Blanchard]

You don't have to actually remove the nock fyi.  Just twist it to your desired position

[W_Ellison2011]

You don't have to actually remove the nock fyi.  Just twist it to your desired position

I have tried that. Some it works for and some it doesn't... which makes no sense to me but whatever I got to do to make them shoot right for my bow lol.