Bought a bow from cabelas, mistake?

[dreamunelk]

Just take it back as have them fix.  I recommend taking it in on a week day.  They will not be as busy.  I have had them and so called pro shops work on my bows.  Actually I had a pro shop make the same mistake.  If it is a mistake.  I think that we all find that our bows need a little tweeking after being worked on.

 I find the service is about the same.  While I recommend supporting the small business sometimes it is difficult.  At least at Cabelas the staff is a little more reluctant to insult you by assuming you are ignorant.  If they do you can complain!

Actually if you still have the receipt you can take the survey on the bottom.  Request that the manager call you.  I bet it gets fixed.

[GEARHEAD]

Well i took the bow back to cabelas, and explained my concerns, older jubby guy helped me this time, he immediately observed that in his opinion, just as i thought, the loop was wrong, he simply squeased it down abit, he also observed that the sight bracket just as i had thought was upside down and rolled it over. i advised i was concerned that the bisquit was not centered right, and he simply eyeballed it, and moved it, i really thought there was a way to correctly measure and place these things he did it all by eyeball, so i'm still not convinced i have a properly tuned bow, i also bought some Axis infusion arrows, i wanted them cut to 29 inches, but he refused saying he was limited to cutting to 30 inches, was worried i might cut myself, not sure the internal inserts were placed right as all my broadheads save one do not line up to my blazers. gonna have to shave maybe a mm or two off to get my braodheads lined up i guess. they guys there are nice, but so are the staff members at walmart, and no disrespect to them, but it is what it is. gonna have to drop by fedway and talk to larry for help i guess, thx in advance larry, or was it oldgoat, i forgot already  anyways i learned a very valuable lesson and would like to pass it on to any new bow purchaser.  DON'T BY BOW KIT! just buy the bow and set it up the way you want. this was a huge mistake on my part. be talking to ya Larry.

[dreamingbig]

The simple answer to your question is yes you did.  Sounds like you are finally on the right track.

[GoldTip]

If I am reading correctly you are going to shave some length off your arrows to get the blades of your broadheads to line up with the fletches on your arrows?  Not that I am the bow guru of all guru's, but if you take one piece of advice from me, ever, do not waste your time trying to get those two things to line up.  It WILL NOT affect your broadhead flight or your accuracy to waste your time or energy doing what you've described.

Glad Cabela's got your other problems fixed.  I have had bow shops, Sporstmes warehouse and Cabela's all work on bows or my buddies bows over the years.  they all make mistakes sometimes.  To be honest I have been reasonably impressed with the guys over here at the Post Falls Cabelas.

[GEARHEAD]

well i'm such a cracker at this, i thought the broadhead blades needed to line up with the blazers, thats good news actually, guess i'll throw a few, and try it out. i'm just not gonna throw another arrow until i am satisfied the bow is trued up.

[uplandhunter870]

broadhead blades not lining up with your fletches is not a big deal, wont affect anything.  as to taking your bow to a shop and not buying it there isnt a biggie in my experience.  i bought a bow from cabelas and took it to my local shop to get set up and rough tuned and they didnt say anything aside from asking why i decided to go with cabelas. the shop didnt have the bow i wanted, and they simply said that they would have ordered it for me.

in my experience eyeballing the rest on center line is all they can do without shooting it, i had to make fine tuning adjustments to my rest to get it shooting perfect but im also kind of OCD about getting my bows and rifles punching one hole.

[Old Dog]

in my experience eyeballing the rest on center line is all they can do without shooting it, .

That's not correct.  At Wholesale Sports, and many other shops as well, we have a laser center shot tool.  It's attached to the bow at the sight mounting screws, then the laser is lined up with string.  Next you rotate the laser so that it shines down the arrow shaft.  Line it up, and most times you are good to go.  We still double check through the paper, because some bows are not designed to shoot at perfect center shot.

 I really doubt your bow is properly tuned if it was just "eyeballed". 

[uplandhunter870]

in my experience eyeballing the rest on center line is all they can do without shooting it, .

That's not correct.  At Wholesale Sports, and many other shops as well, we have a laser center shot tool.  It's attached to the bow at the sight mounting screws, then the laser is lined up with string.  Next you rotate the laser so that it shines down the arrow shaft.  Line it up, and most times you are good to go.  We still double check through the paper, because some bows are not designed to shoot at perfect center shot.

 I really doubt your bow is properly tuned if it was just "eyeballed". 

learn something new everyday.

[Bengal Hunter]

My brother was actually put in that position before and the bow shop owner was going to charge him more for a bow that was bought outside of his shop.   Another problem is that a bowshop will set you up and measure you for the bow.  Cabelas....even though I love Cabelas... can't do that.  My suggestion is to bite the bullet and take it to a local bow shop to make sure it works right for you.  If you don't you'll get discouraged with the bow and possibly end up getting rid of it. 

[Chuethou_b18c5]

This one time we were checking out a bow at cabelas...after they set it up for us to shoot and test out....the bow exploded after a few pulls...they had to examine the bow to see if it was us or them....after inspection, they came to concluded that they did something wrong on the cams(not sure what it is, we didn't bother to ask)....My brother also bought a bow from there and after we took it out to shoot it kept making a weird noise. Every time he drew it back it would make a clicking noise...took it to a different archery tech and he said the limbs were bad so we returned it...Just be careful when you're there buying a bow...I feel like these guy's don't know much about bows...from my experience...