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Title: Archery Setup question
Post by: GUscottie on June 15, 2014, 11:56:56 PM: A couple questions for some of you with a lot more expertise than myself.

I have a bow that is a straight shooting, very fast bow, but the big drawback is the bow site is extended all the way to the "left" meaning, I can't move it further to the left. I had it paper tuned and set up last year, and it shot great, but I was nearly cranked to the furthest it could go.

I got a new release for this year and I literally moved the sites as far left as they can go and now I'm barely shooting straight at 20 yards...I'm concerned that if I shoot beyond 20, which I'm going to do over the next week or two, that I won't be able to adjust the bow any further. I think I need to adjust the rest, but I may throw everything else out of whack...Any insight would be helpful...I'll post pics tomorrow or Tuesday.

Josh
Title: Re: Archery Setup question
Post by: Jellymon on June 16, 2014, 12:07:52 AM: Paper tuning is a starting point, a bullet hole doesnt necessarily mean your bow is tuned. Need to know about your setup, model bow, sight, rest, and spine/ length of arrows, size of tips. And measure your centershot, the distance from the riser to the center of your arrow when its nocked and rest is up. Then it will be a little easier to help. :tup:
Title: Re: Archery Setup question
Post by: GUscottie on June 16, 2014, 01:22:33 PM: Quote from: Jellymon on June 16, 2014, 12:07:52 AM
Paper tuning is a starting point, a bullet hole doesnt necessarily mean your bow is tuned. Need to know about your setup, model bow, sight, rest, and spine/ length of arrows, size of tips. And measure your centershot, the distance from the riser to the center of your arrow when its nocked and rest is up. Then it will be a little easier to help. :tup:

Bow is a 2013 Hoyt Charger. Sight is 5 pin interceptor. Rest is the smack down. Arrows are Beeman IT'S hunter 400 (8.4 gpi) with the 100 grain tri tip wac'em broadhead. The last one. .. I can't get a good answer since I'm solo today. My arrows are about 27" and my length of pull is right about the same... might be 27.5 if I'm remembering correctly
Title: Re: Archery Setup question
Post by: GUscottie on June 16, 2014, 01:26:18 PM: Here is the sight maxed out on movement to the left.. from the shooters pov
Title: Re: Archery Setup question
Post by: Jellymon on June 16, 2014, 03:49:22 PM: You can measure centershot without drawing the bow. It has a lot to do with your sight position. Measuring from the riser to center of arrow should be 3/4"-13/16" on a Hoyt. If it's not in that range then something's off. With that rest you will have to take the cord off so the launcher comes up to measure it. It won't change anything, when your done just pull the cord back tight with the launcher down and tighten the setscrew.
If your rest is in range mentioned above then your sight just may not match your setup, and you might have to get one that adjusts further.
Title: Re: Archery Setup question
Post by: Jellymon on June 16, 2014, 03:59:00 PM: Some sights you're able to flip the horizontal adjustment or bracket around to get more travel out of it. I'm not familiar with that sight but might be worth looking into.

Also make sure you're not left eye dominant and shooting with you're left eye without realizing it. That will max your sight to the left as well I believe. I know that sounds dumb, but it happens more often than you'd think. :)
Title: Re: Archery Setup question
Post by: bullcanyon on June 16, 2014, 04:12:50 PM: Try walk back tuning your bow. Bet it is off a touch.
Title: Re: Archery Setup question
Post by: GUscottie on June 23, 2014, 09:12:15 PM: The final answer is that the bow was out of tune. When we adjusted it back to where the top and bottom cams hit their riser stops... BINGO! Figured I'd let everyone know what the deal was. The bow is back to shooting as straight as ever.
Title: Re: Archery Setup question
Post by: demontang on June 24, 2014, 08:34:36 PM: Man did you do anything to the bow to make it go out or did your string/cable stretch?
Title: Re: Archery Setup question
Post by: GUscottie on June 26, 2014, 04:48:39 AM: I don't know. The bow shot great the last time I picked it up. I've never dropped it, kicked it or made it dance to the tune of a pistol... the fellow I had work on it thinks it may have just been off when I had it worked on last and the people who did that didn't catch the bows cams being out of sync
Title: Re: Archery Setup question
Post by: demontang on June 26, 2014, 06:40:48 AM: Id think if it shot good before then the cam sync was good. If this was my bow id shot it a bunch to see if the strings are stretching :twocents: