RE: Question for 2004 BowTech Patriot Dually owners
I have a Pro40 Dually and the bow is really nice.
I had heard about the lean in past models and thought I read somewhere (maybe on this board) that the lean was gone this year. Well, it is not. I took al the lean out and if you do this, tha cable does not track properly and you get the feeling of a double bump as it first hits the side of the cam cable track then fall into the track (feels like an out-of-time bow). So I slowly induced minor lean back into it until the double hump went away. There is a little lean on mine.
Bowtech has the cable track in the center of the limb and this seems to keep ay lean consistent through the draw cycle. However, since the cams roll over and stand taller at full draw than at brace, the lean does induce some horizontal nock travel that you cannot get rid of. (You can see this horizontal travel by powder testing how the arrow rides the rest -- it will not show a straight line down the shaft) You can tune the bow to shoot consistently like this, but I would really prefer for Bowtech to design the cable track in the cam to be able to accomodate a cam that has no lean and tracks the sting straight throughout the draw cycle. I am thinking that a split cable system on this cam may get rid of the lean (because it can then track straight up without a cable guard and I may try that).
Bottom line is slight cam lean is there.