Pic of guardian string cutting off sight

Parks71 · 12-21-2006, 05:57 PM

I know this was on a differnt thread and someone talked me into taking pictures of what I was talking about and the picture shows exactly what I see. I am making this thread to get more ideas on what I can do to fix this. The first picture is the bow at rest, the second picture is full draw and shows what every single person who shots the bow sees, the cable crossing the sight. I have tried moving the peep hole, moving the sight, moving everything and cant get that cable out of the view.

Any help or ideas would be great before I have to return the bow and get something else, I dont want to, I love it other than this problem.

I know my anchor sucks, its so the picture will turn out.

Parks71 · 12-21-2006, 05:59 PM

At full draw.

buckeye · 12-21-2006, 06:01 PM

See my reply in the other thread.

PABowhntr · 12-22-2006, 05:23 AM

I must be missing something here. The "at rest" picture shows the cables slightly inside/on the riser but to the right of your pin guard "aperture". The second photo I cannot see the cables at all in relation to your site. I tried to "scroll down" but that does not appear to be an option. Am I missing something?

JOE PA · 12-22-2006, 06:06 AM

I see what you are talking about. It looks a lot like the sight picture I used to get with the Jennings bows with the swing arm cable guard. Not that hard to get used to, and it doesn't really affect the shooting unless you let it bother you. I would think it would be better on the longer Commander. I guess if you do the center the pin housing in the peep thing, it could be distracting. I personally don't use a peep sight anymore.

Elkcrazy8 · 12-22-2006, 09:02 AM

Are you able to put an offset cable gaurd on the bow??

My biggest concern would not be the issue with the sight, but more with flecth clearance on the arrow.

TFOX · 12-22-2006, 02:00 PM

This may not be a bad thing,assuming their is sufficient vane clearance.

There should be much less torque from the cable quard with it being set in so far.

I usually offset my target bows in as much as possible.

rock_slinger · 12-22-2006, 02:17 PM

Low profile vanes, and no peep. I shoot a rear sight and you can move your sight to the outside where the path is clear.Goodluck..

BigJ71 · 12-22-2006, 02:57 PM

That would bug the hell out of me!

If the cable rod is not adjustable the only thing I can suggest is to get an aftermarker cable slide. NAP makes one that holds the cables pretty close to the rod. It appears in your photos that the slide is letting the cables hang out there pretty far. It gets worse at full draw because the force against the rod is greater bending the rod and thus the cables get closer to the center.......and in your way!!! Are the cables crossing in the correct position? I don't know how they are supposed to be on the Guardian, call Bowtech. It will either be above or below the rod. This may be your problem too.

I gained a 16th of an inch clearance from the oem slide, here is a pic of the nap slide on my bow.

BigJ71 · 12-22-2006, 03:46 PM

I was thinking that you could buy an aftermarket cable rod that has an offset to it. You could then adjust the cables so that they would be out of your line of sight as well as your fletchings. However two things to think about.....

1. This will cause more torque on the limbs and I don't think you can adjust for that with the binary cams like you can with a split yoke cam bow.

2. This is only a bandaide fix and you shouldn't have to do this to get a clean sight picture. Judging from the photos you posted, the cables ARE indeedin the way.

I suspect these are growing pains for a new type of bow such as the Guardian. I mean this thing has a radically different style riser and the cam design (Binary)is only a few years old too, there is bound to be something that needs "tweeking"

Good luck to you.

P.S.
Another reason why I like the simplicity of a single cam bow!