Bow would not tune

GeneRagulsky · 02-21-2008, 12:53 PM

Switched from a Whisker Bis. to a Trophy Taker. The set up would not tune. I had the rest moved as far as I could go to the right and still get clearance.

Of course I was beyond frustrated.

I put the bow in the vice and just looked at it for probably 15 minutes and then it hits me. I only have one string leach on the bottom. I shot the other one off some time ago.

I took the leach out and a short time later, I was shooting bullet holes through the paper. I actually had to move the rest out to the left.

When I weighed the leach, it is very close to 3 grains. Before I would have not believed that 3 grains would have made that much difference, but now I am a believer.

Roskoe · 02-21-2008, 08:28 PM

I wonder if this phenomenon is due to the weight of the string leech on the bottom only; or the uneven shortening of the string that running only one string leech causes? Overall, I wouldn't have thought it would have made that much difference to run only the bottom string leech . . . . .

PABuck_HNTR · 02-22-2008, 05:55 PM

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I wonder if this phenomenon is due to the weight of the string leech on the bottom only; or the uneven shortening of the string that running only one string leech causes? Overall, I wouldn't have thought it would have made that much difference to run only the bottom string leech

If any of this is true then Hoyt has some issues. Most all their 2008 bows are sold with a bottom string leech only.