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Old 09-09-2010 | 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by bronko22000
My friend was having fits trying to get his new Cheetah tuned. I surmised that it was because he was using a flipper rest and a release. So I loaned him one of my Apache drop away rest. He got it all sighted in with FTs. Then when he tried his BHs he was shooting about 5" right. So I moved the rest to the left a little at a time but nothing was changing. Finally after about 1/2 hour of this I moved the rest back to its original setting and even though his draw length is about 2" longer than mine, I took his bow and shot 2 BHs and 2 FTs into a tight cluster. All be it about 2" left of the bull. Being the good friend that he is I just had to tell him that it was him and not the bow. Back at the shooting line I watched him and immediately noticed his grip was all wrong. I took his bow again and showed him how his grip was torquing the bow to the left and then showed him the proper grip. He began shooting with the 'new' grip and immediately shot much better. He did say that is felt wierd but definately worked much better. A little more practice and sight adjustment and he was spot on.
Now I just hope he doesn't go back to his old grip when that buck walks up to him.........
This is a possibility and exactly why he needs to shoot hundreds of arrows to ingrain this new grip into his muscle memory.
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