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Offline halfpipe88

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Bow Tuning - help!
« on: August 14, 2013, 01:02:02 PM »
I've got my bow sighted in at 20 yards, but by the time I move out to 60 yards I'm 8" right.  I adjust my sight to be in line at 60 yards and I'm a couple inches left at 20 yards.  Why would it do this?  I've never had this problem before.

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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2013, 01:09:45 PM »
I would think hand tourqe or arrows , had similar problem with daughters pse adjusted the rest it helped but it ended up being tourqe for her.

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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2013, 01:10:15 PM »
Sounds like your rest might be a little out of whack. Maybe  :dunno:
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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2013, 01:10:40 PM »
Your left right is off......horizontal center shot

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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2013, 01:21:50 PM »
Hand torque?  With my front hand?  I'm usually pretty cautious about not gripping the bow.  My arrows are brand new.  I just replaced them to see if it would help but it didn't.
How do you test center-shot?  I was told to shoot a group at 20 yards, then back up to 40 yards and shoot at the same point with the same pin and if it's in line the arrows will be lined up.  Sound right?

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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2013, 01:28:21 PM »

Sounds like your rest is adjusted a little to far to the right originally and arrows are fish-tailing as they come off bow.  Need to adjust rest.

Other concerns might be that you are gripping bow too tight, or that you are canting bow to one side.  Bow needs to be straight up and down (i.e., perpendicular w/the ground).  If you let it lean a little to the side, you will have the issue you are describing.

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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2013, 01:31:35 PM »
Hand torque?  With my front hand?  I'm usually pretty cautious about not gripping the bow.  My arrows are brand new.  I just replaced them to see if it would help but it didn't.
How do you test center-shot?  I was told to shoot a group at 20 yards, then back up to 40 yards and shoot at the same point with the same pin and if it's in line the arrows will be lined up.  Sound right?

Thats one way to test center shot.  But, if you did this and they were in line at 40yrds, they would also be in line at 60 yards.  So, I'm still guessing that the rest needs adjustment or you are canting the bow to one side.

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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2013, 01:50:06 PM »
it does sound like your rest in not set up right. Try doing a walk back. shoot one arrow at twenty yards, then back up to thirty yards. Then put your twenty yard pin right on the knock of your first arrow and shoot. ( I will put a orange ear plug in the knock of the first arrow so I can have a better target to shoot at) If you are left or right of your first arrow you need to move your rest.

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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2013, 01:51:30 PM »
Could go a little one way or the other, but in alot of cases, you start with the arrow in the rest and measure 13/16ths off the riser wall to the center of the shaft.  This is only a starting point and actual  tuned measurement can vary.

 I use a laser tool mounted in the sight holes and nock up an arrow, and turn the laser from the center of the string at the nock, to the center of the shaft just past the rest.  This also is just a starting point, true tune could go slightly either way.

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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2013, 02:16:24 PM »
Aim on target, steady pin, take 1/2 step to the left, let her rip!
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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2013, 02:17:03 PM »
Seriously, time for a walkback or french tune.
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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2013, 02:20:18 PM »
My wife had a similar issue . It turned out to be her sights were not level with the string . I clamped the bow and leveled the string in both direction (left to right and up and down ) then adjusted the sight bubble to level . That solved her left to right issues .

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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2013, 02:50:10 PM »
 :yeah: sounds like a walk back test is in order  :tup:

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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #13 on: August 14, 2013, 02:55:02 PM »
start out with it set up right or darn close to it, and the walk back will get better results......start the walk back with things ascew, then you have to set it up right.  Dont put the cart ahead of the horse.............

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Re: Bow Tuning - help!
« Reply #14 on: August 14, 2013, 03:24:28 PM »
Do you have a bubble on that sight?  If so I'd expect the second or third axis is a bit off.

I had a range where all the nearby trees were slightly leaning.  I always seemed to shoot left at longer distances.  Moved my target to where I stand and started shooting from where the target used to be.  Then all my arrows started hitting to the right  :chuckle:

One of the reasons I stopped shooting Hoyt years ago.  For some reason I have one heck of a time shooting the Hoyt grip without using the bubble.  The side plates helped, but not enough.  Felt like I always had to be leaning to my right to get things good and level.  Just my hand and their grip do not like one another and I tend to cant the bow.  Finally had Loesch make me a grip and all the troubles disappeared.
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