You are now the fourth person I have spoken with in the last couple months who has related the same thing. I believe it has something to do specifically with the Patriot SC model...in addition to what I mentioned above. Case in point, I had a gentleman come into the shop last night looking for fletchings but we ended up chatting about a variety of issues. One thing that came up was that he had alot of problems with the squidees on his Bowtech. The model? A Patriot SC and he was shooting below 6 grains per pound of draw weight...at a heavy draw weight setting.