I done the correct measuring and my DL worked out at 25".

If im practicing in my house will i just keep an arrow nocked? I don't want to dry fire.

Im still unsure if i should lower the DW, because i was told that 30Ibs was min for my bow its set at 30Ibs.

Not sure what to do really [&:]

Do you know exactly what weight it's at now?? Perhaps it's at 40lbs and you need to turn it down. If there is any way to get to a bow draw weight scale that would be my first step. You must know exactly what it's at now in order to turn it down safely. Make sure you stay within the factory limits as to how much you can back it down. As mentioned you should be able to get it to 28 or so pounds. It's quite possible (if it was shipped to you) that it arrived maxed at 40lbs (or even a couple lbs higher) so you really need to find out where it's at.

Good luck and congratulations on the new bow....it looks great!

Thanks for the compliments

WhenI bought it, I asked for it to be set at 30. They said they would tune it etc and keep it at 30 for me. I am not sure if it would be safe to go below the min weight.

Thirty pound isn't much weight, it's all tecnique. Once you get the hang of it you'll be suprised how easy it is. They're just different muscles from what you use normally. A buddy of mine who lifts weights wanted to try archery and he couldn't pull my bow set at 60#. It was actually pretty funny, here's this guy with huge arms and he was struggling so hard to pull it back. Stick with it and congrats on the new bow.

JMO, it sounds like the poundage is set at 40... IDK what kind of Frame you have, but 30lbs really isnt that much, Take it to a shop and have them put it on a scale...

were you there when they set it up? i assume not, but anyway, ireally honestlythink you could handle 30lbs.... but as said before your using a completly different set of muscles. Good luck and Congrats on your new bow, It looks great.

That's my point...just because they told you it would be shipped at 30lbs doesn't mean it was. Hell it doesn't even guarantee it's a 30-40 lbs bow (stranger mistakes have been made before) It should say on the limbs somewhere the limbpoundagerange.

Is there any place you can bring it to have it measured? That NEEDS to be done first before any adjustments can be made. If you can't then there is another way around it. You can bottom the limbs all the way (max poundage...40 in your case) then call Diamond and ask how may turns out from full max is safe. This should get you down to the lowest setting of the bow.

Without a scale that's about the only way to be close to your lowest setting....Good luck.

It's not set @ 40...Looking at the pics you can plainly see that the limbs are backed out. You should be able to back them off a LITTLE more, but you want to make sure the lower edge of the limb does NOT rise above the limb pocket.....That would be bad, very bad. In short, if you're really close to that point now, and you're uncomfortable backing it out more.....Don't.

Heres a pic of the limb. What do you guys think?

That's the cam.....Need a pic of where the limb meets the riser...Where the adjustment bolt is.

Also.....do you know for sure it's set @ 25", and do you know for certain it's a 30-40# bow? Is it possible that the wrong one was shipped?

Now you're reading my mail mobow..........