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08-17-2003 | 09:04 PM

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Len in Maryland

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From: Baltimore Maryland USA

RE: The tuning trilogy!

Arthur: Had a customer in today who had bought arrows at the local mass merchant. He came it to get his string changed, a new sight, and his bow tuned. I asked him for an arrow. I put it on the spin tester and it was bad. Second arrow bad. Third arrow was acceptable. He then asked me to check his remaining 3 NEW arrows. The other 3 tested bad. Needless to say, he was not a happy person. Would he have ever known if he hadn' t come into my shop? Doubtful.

He left his bow and I proceeded to work on it. I got it to tune fairly quickly and it looked good. I changed to the new sight he wanted and proceeded to shoot it to check out whether or not I had it pretty much in the same location as the old sight. During the process I noticed that the arrow wasn' t flying right. I took it back over to the tuning range and it went haywire. I then took a similar arrow out of our sample bucket and shot it. PERFECT! I took the customer' s arrow back over to the spin tester and it was now BAD. [:@] Noticeably different on the spin tester from what I accepted the first time around.

That one arrow out of six that was good just went ' south' . The one thing that I noticed was that they all failed at the nock end. Only one failed at both ends. I' m beginning to think that these nocks pressed into the raw shafts may be suspect. [

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I' m wondering if anyone has ever had a similar occurrence? Has anyone ever noticed an arrow going out while shooting it? Had I not been deeply into the tuning process, I don' t think I would have noticed it as quickly.

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