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Bow creaks during draw and other questions
smithkl42:
I'm a newbie archer, and for my first bow, I bought a Hoyt PowerMax last August (I got a reasonably good deal on it). I know that it's not a very high-end bow, and I'm certainly not terribly accurate with it, though I suspect that's more the fault of the archer than his equipment.
My bow does seem to be behaving in a few odd ways, though.
One of them is that when I pull back, starting about halfway through my draw, the bow creaks (I originally said "squeaks", but it's definitely a "creak"). I haven't been able to track down exactly where it's coming from, but it seems like maybe from the cams, and maybe more the upper than the lower. Is it an indication that something is out of balance, or loose or something like that? Anything to be worried about?
Related, when I look down at my cams, and try to line them up with my arrow rest, it seems like my bottom cam is perfectly aligned with my arrow rest, while my top cam is slightly off - maybe only 2-3 degrees off, but enough that it's noticeable. That ... doesn't seem right.
Another weirdness - and again, this may be more the fault of the archer - is that about one out of every four arrows I shoot seems to go off in a weird direction. It hits within maybe 5" of my other arrows, but it seems to enter the target in an odd direction. If all the others are pointing back straight to where I was standing, these other arrows will end up pointing out in a slightly different direction, like the arrow was spiraling in some weird way when it finally entered the target. If it's only happening some of the time, is this likely some problem with my shot?
My assumption is that I need to go get my bow tuned (I bought it at the Nock Point in Mountlake Terrace), but I'd like to go in with as much information as I can get. Plus, I just replaced the strings on it a month or two back, and it seems like it shouldn't have gotten out of tune so quickly.
Any advice or suggestions?
Thanks for all your help for a newbie ...
Wolfdog2314:
I’d have a shop look at your first few issues and have it tuned there.
I had a Hoyt spider that would squeak upon draw. It would do this when it was dirty and the string wasn’t waxed well.
As far as the arrows:
Mark each arrow with a number. If the arrow is the same one that is a flyer each time, you know it’s an arrow problem. Discard it or figure out why it’s flying wrong. Could be insert. Fletching. Not spinning true. Ect.
rtspring:
Go see Denton at Rock Creek Archery! Not only will he fix your bow, he will teach you more about bows in 30 mins, it will save you time in learning! I was a newbie 5 years ago and his knowledge in a visit it priceless!!!
He is in enumclaw
Greg Mullins:
My RX1 did the same thing but it was my rest.
hogslayer:
I had this happen on one of my bows. It was some dry contact between the limb pockets and the coating sticker they put on the limbs. I had to put some lithium greese on there and it went away. Super annoying. Especially since i had the bow tuned and they had to pull the bow apart.
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