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Old 12-16-2014, 07:23 AM
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Nomercy448
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Sounds like you're out of centershot. I'd venture that you'd see a very slight left impact at 10yrds.

You should be setting your yokes to balance your ATA even on both sides, then leave it alone. Then you determine your rest centershot based on THAT string travel. Changing your rest AND your yokes is spinning your wheels. You should ONLY change your yokes if your bow is way out of centershot and you can't tune your rest properly. In general, balancing the ATA on both sides will bring it back into alignment as close as anything. Once it's there, leave it alone! The goal here is to have your string travel in a plane that bisects the bow. Jacking with that after the fact is just screwing yourself up and causing your "walkback issues". Once the string is traveling properly, then your goal is to simply find the rest position that puts the rest in that plane. Then the sight as well.

Granted, there's a little bit of "wiggle" in that, since your limbs torque ever so slightly when drawn due to the cable guard, so the string travel is actually angled a little bit towards your bow as it fires (from left to right for a right handed shooter), but there's nothing we can do about that.

So a quick check can be this: fix the bow so the string is vertical and look from the back of the bow. Line the string up with the center of the rest. The sight dots SHOULD line up either right under the string, or very slightly to the right of the string (accounting for that limb torque when fired). I'd venture that yours is to the left. Longer brace heights hide this better, but short braces give it away pretty easy.

(NOTE: Some folks believe in setting the yokes such that the ATA is even when drawn rather when at rest. Take your pick which you believe in. You'll have limb torque and cam lean at one end or the other no matter what - either they'll lean towards you when drawn and be square at rest, or be square when drawn and be leaned away from you at rest, so the nock will always move left to right ever so slightly for a right handed shooter. It's easier to set them even at rest, because the other way requires a draw board that a lot of guys don't have. Either way, set the yokes and leave them alone).
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