Well I just got finished tuning a bow for a friend at work.What made this one specially hard was it was a freebie and the person had no money to buy anything that might help.Oh,yeah,the fact that it was a left handed 70#-80# bow didn' t help considering I am right handed and only weigh 140# soaking wet.


I had to first figure out his draw length and discovered he was overbowed(a shop had set him up too).Luckily the draw length could be shortened to fit him and this brought the poundage down to a managable weight.It ended up at 66#-67# @ 28.5" draw.The bow was an older PSE Thunderflight with 75% letoff.I wasn' t impressed at all.Well I had to find some arrows that I had laying around because he had 6 but they were shot(pun intended)These things were bent beyond repair.I first tried some 2018' s that should have worked but this bow just was so inconsistant with what it did from shot to shot that I needed to step up to a 2117.Luckily I had 3 to get him started.

I couldn' t do much twisting or anything like that because it has steel cables.The timing did check out though.

The biggest obstacle was the cable guard.This thing just flopped around causing all kinds of problems.So lucky for the 2 of us we are tool makers.I came up with an idea to make a cable guard that didn' t move.A couple hours after work today and some inginuity.He now has a cable guard that doesn' t move.The price was right too.This made tuning atleast possible.Before the bow just wouldn' t do anything.



I shot bare shaft after bare shaft and just couldn' t get the things to shoot through paper good.I kept getting a low nock tear.Kept moving the nock up untill I finally got it.It ended up a full 9/16" high.Believe it or not the bow is busting bullet hole after bullet hole from 2 ft-20 ft,with and without fletching.Hard to believe that the nock travel is that unlevel.


I was worried that a limb was weak and 1 might be but from checking tiller adjustments,I think they are as good as they can be.


Now all he has to do is a little fine tuning for him,if needed but I shot it and from what I could tell,it is going to fling his broadheads and field points very well.But I am right handed and he is left.We did shoot the bow through paper the same and my center shot ended up center so I don' t think i was torquing the bow.


Although I have done my own tuning for a several years now.Before I started reading and posting on this site,I don' t think I would have been able to get this bow done.I have learned a few things here that helped.Being a tool maker sure did help too.


Thanks guys.