RE: Nightmare with my new Patriot
 

Good luck buddy. Stuff like this can drive a guy crazy. Plop down some big cash expecting one thing ...then get another. You are correct to just get yourself set for the season at this point. You still have the noise, but at least your rest problem should be taken care of for the time being. I feel for you. I bought a Mathews Ultralight years ago that gave me fits. Mathews had been in business a couple of years at the time and their new single cam was getting hyped big time. From what I remember one of their big drawing cards was that the bow wouldn' t go out of tune. That sounded great to me so I went to check it out. The bow felt good in my hand, it waslight and quiet to shoot. Great!! Wrong! That bow turned out to be the biggest piece of crap I have ever owned. Never go out of tune! Try getting it in tune! I ended up going through 4 different shaft sizes, a couple rests, every conceivable head weight, nock point up, nock point down, rest left, rest right, etc. etc.. Centershot...Forget it. The people at Mathews eventually told me after many attempts where they felt my rest needed to be. Something like 3/4" out in relation to the riser and that the nocking point should be about 1/2" high. So there I was with this whacky setup basically launching arrows with great downforce AND out the side of the bow. Then the string stretch issue. Constant fiddling with nock point...CONSTANT...The bow was also sensitive to temperature differences and/or humidity changes, blah blah blah blah blah. This went on and on. I eventually sold it to some guy that thought I was crazy when I warned him about it. He informs me that I did something wrong because those bows are the greatest thing since sliced bread. About two months later, he wrapped it around a tree.....:D Jim

RE: Nightmare with my new Patriot
 

Atlasman,

Don' t know if has anything to do with your situation, my son-in-law HAD a bowtech mighty mite and it shot rreal good for a month or so. Then all of a sudden got real noisy. He shot it without any accesories and that didn' t help any. He took it back to the bowshop ( which is a top notch place) and they took bow apart but said they couldn' t find anything. They checked strings and cables and said sometimes on the short ATA bows when strings stretch that bow could get noisy. Anyway the owner of the shop refunded his money. He then shot other bows (Mathews, Martin High Country PSE Pearson) He decided on the Pearson and he shots real good with it and it is quiet. Maybe why he refunded is because he teaches owners son in school and they know each other personally. Owner said the bow was going straight back to Bowtech. We never did understand what was going on with that bow.

RE: Nightmare with my new Patriot
 

Atlasman,
When you shoot in your backyard are you close to any wooden fences?

The only reason I ask is when I shoot near the corner where my 2 fences come together my bows sound much louder than they actually are.

I finally gave up and took my MM to pro sop to get the TT dialed in professionally. He moved my center shot out away from the riser and raised my rest a tad and wolla, no vane contact and only 3" low now at 30 yards. Guess I' ll have to live with that. I used it to put a 33 yard shot on a doe the next day. 272 fps is hard to get out of the way of:D!!

Anyhow while at the shop the other guys shooting commented on how quiet my bow was. The most noise dampening item I' ve added was the string leaches. One next to the serving near the bottom cam and the other ~5" from the top wheel. They put the hush on big time. Are you using any??

RE: Nightmare with my new Patriot
 

No. When I shoot I am in a wide open space. No trees, no nothin' .

Hopefully when I am up a tree the surroundings will muffle some of the noise.

I should point out that the bow is not so loud that I don' t think I can take a deer with it. I would say it is loud enough for a deer to hear........but fast enough to probably overcome that.

It is just louder then it should be.......and the noise is not string noise so I know something is wrong somewhere.

If I have a deer jump the string on me this year I will have a melt down [:@]