Len,

I finally got my smaller mods to get to my 27" draw. Feels good now for fit.

The rubber cushions under the limb pockets are not supposed to be compressed much, if any- They say optimumspace is .200".

And I got my new bow press to be able to work on this bow. I put on my smaller mods and moved my string to the long drawlength peg on the cam. My bow came from PSE at around 62+ pounds. When moving the string to the long peg- I was surprised at the poundage jump. Around 3.5 pounds! So now my bow is about 66 pounds. I don't mind thata bit. At first when ordering the bow I was a little scared of having a "speed bow" with a possible harsh draw. But after shooting it at 62# for a while I was thinking maybe I should've ordered a 70# instead and just turned it down a little. Mid-60's is now just perfect for what I wanted.

Now, if someone had ordered a 70# bow and then needed to be on the long drawlength peg they could be in for a bit of a surprise. From the X-Forces I've seen, they all seem to be coming in a couple of pounds heavy in the factory "0" position. So that means someone's ordered 70# bow could be 75-76# in the long peg! weeeee!!!! just something for people to be aware of.....

I also took my bow completely apart to check it out a little closer. Those limbs are completely straight when they are let down! Kinda freaky. All the limb pocket cushions and pivot points were nicely lubricated from the factory.

What I did find that I wasn't crazy about was that the limb bolts going into the riser seemed to have a lot of crap on the threads. To me it looks like they didn't clean out the threaded holes very well before lubing and assembling the bow. I suppose it wouldn't be a big deal if you never intended to turn you limb bolts very much, but still I felt much better cleaning the bolts and threaded holes and reapplying grease.

Now with the correct drawlength- I don't thinkthe bowis overly harsh to draw at all. Very pleasant for the incredible speeds this thing achieves. And I added a homemade string suppressor which removed any resonance of the bow on the shot. It now feels very dead in the hand. Not that it was bad to begin with, but now it is really dead.

Still in the process of replacing strings and cables. Haven't had time to do any speed testing with them on yet. I've been impressed at the ease of getting really nice arrow flight with some Carbon Express 3D Selects 300's I had laying around.

Some of my groupings out to 60yds were veryencouraging. This bow does not shoot like a low brace height bow from what I've seen so far. I'm still quite impressed with this bow.