Question about hard yoke on Hoyt

Elkcrazy8 · 04-09-2006, 09:53 PM

My shooting partner and I got new hoyts for 3-D this year. As always we purchased new strings right away. I am totaly pleased with my pro elite, but he is getting a little peaved at his ultra elite. The only difference is that I bought the soft yoke and he bought the hard yoke. How many of you have messed with the hard yoke? I think that the right side needs to be turned out 2 twists or so as the bow seems to want to torque right. Has anyone experienced this and or played around with the effects of this? He can't figure why this bow is so torque prone. Does anyone have anything to add????????

gibblet · 04-10-2006, 05:25 AM

i've got no personal experience, but deal with a lot of hoyt shooters i make strings for. the better shooters (maybe what i mean here is the more finicky tuners)get hard yokes, and they don't want serving at the split. if you look at the bow from the back, with the string facing you, you should be able to see which side of the yoke needs twisting by looking at how the string is coming off the cam. personally, when i do it to 1 of my bows, i don't worry about getting it perfect at rest. its more important what the bow is doing at full draw - at least that's what i'm told. i do usually end up putting about 3 twists in the right side as i'm right handed and that's the side that needs twisting because of the cable slide.

gibblet · 04-10-2006, 08:19 AM

thought i'd add i shoot a floating or soft yoke on my hunting bow, and static on my spot bow.

Elkcrazy8 · 04-10-2006, 05:17 PM

Thanks for the reply gibblet. I did a google search and came up with a site where you can ask Micheal Braden. On one of the threads that was started dealt with this very issue. He sets this bow in particular so that at rest, the outside of the cam when holding an arrow against it should be parallel to the string. My partners bow bisects the string. I dealt with this with the Mathews LX that I used to shoot. I had to set that so that the arrow when held against the cam, would bisect the string 4.5-5 inches down. This allowed for the built in torque of the bow and would make things straight at full draw. I have been shooting Hoyt for 2 years now and am just now starting to figure out all the tuning quirks. I had to do that with Mathews a while ago. I guess thats what keeps the sport interesting. Have a great day and thanks again..