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Now therefore take, I pray you, your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison...Genesis 27:3

FINALLY


It has been a while since last blog and I want to apologize to everyone that has emailed me asking questions and leaving comments. My computer has been down and I have just got it back recently, so with that being said, lets get back to what's important, bows.

After weeks of shooting, I have decided to replace my strings. Something is messing up my accuracy in shooting and I am still getting the twang from my string. After talking to Hoyt, I have decided the four year old string is the problem. So I put a order in for a new set of strings, buss cable and control cable, orange ones at that.

In the last couple weeks and made few changes to my bow. The string supresser rod was long so I shortened it. The rubber stopper on the end of it was shaped like a V. If you was shooting and the string did not hit dead center of the stop, I believe it was causing my arrow to leave my bow at a angle so i cut it off flush.

I replace my cable guide with a new one. I was noticing a grove on the carbon cable guide rod. The guide was worn out. It no longer fit snug. I remove the cables from the guide and slid the guide onto the rod and it wobbled to the bottom of the shaft. That is a no no.

After looking at many, many bows and reading articles about vibration in bows I came up with an idea. I cut out pieces of foam and lined the holes in my riser with them.( The ones in the pic are orange and couple are brown. They fit loose. Completed project fit snug and held in place by double sided tape. I went with all orange) Don't know if made lot of difference yet, not been able to get out and shoot since I installed them.

Well guys got plenty more to tell you but just wanted to give short run down of whats going on in last month.



The Jury Is In!

Went with a friend to an archery shop tonight, he knows these guys real good and wanted them to set up my bow. They went through it and made everything was lined up. Everything looked good. David (the man behind the counter) noticed few things he did not like on my bow.

  1. D-loop was to big. He put a new one on and made it shorter. He also noticed that the knots on loop were on the same side. Apparently they are suppose to be opposite of each other. Also had a 2 noks on the string and it was slowing my bow down. He removed them.
  2. David noticed there was no serving on the string where the stopper was making contact on string. So he wrapped serving around it.
  3. He also relocated the pull string on the drop-away arrow rest. It was popping up when I would draw back. Then he attached a new arrow holder also. Before, all I was doing was letting the arrow rest between two felt pads. Which was noisy. Arrow would bounce around. NO MORE.
  4. After making sure everything else look good, he paper tuned it. 1st shot is all it took. It looked good. A BULLET . It's what every archer looks for.
  5. Now for the sad part. We shot bow through chronograph and my bow as shooting a IBO speed of 223 fps. That I do not like. I want faster. URGH, URGH, URGH. When my bow came out on market, they advertised 300 fps. They don't tell you the only way to achieve that is to shoot arrows without fletching or with bare strings. No nok. No silencers. Nothing.
So now I have a few more options to get the IBO speed up. I am going to in future, near future I hope, change out arrows. Then one's I'm shooting are heavy. 360 grains. That's 12 grains per inch. I want to purchase some new ones around 260 grains, that will put me down around 8.6 grains per inch. These guys were a great set of guys. Helped me out a lot. Best of all didn't charge me a arm & lef for labor, parts and most important....knowledge was free.

WHAT I FOUND OUT

Well just got in from shooting my bow in this freezing weather. I replaced the Puff Ball Silencers with Beaver Balls and could not tell difference. Still getting a twang sound. So I decided to crank my bow down two complete turns, which I believe is between 4-6 pounds. Shot 6 more arrows through it and WOW. That made a difference. So now my bow is set somewhere between 57-59 pounds on draw weight. I will know for certain when I get it to bow shop. So guys/gals make sure you are shooting the right arrow for your draw weight.


When I get into the archery shop I will have them check out my IBO speed. I probably will have them crank it back up to original weight and check the IBO, so I can see how much I lost. If its not a lot, I plan on leaving it alone, if its to much I will crank it back up and invest into different arrows.


I would rather have a bow that shoots smooth and quiet than fast and loud.