New string & now bow pulls 5lbs. less?
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New string & now bow pulls 5lbs. less?
Now that my season has wound down I am wanting to adress this new sting = lower draw weight issue.
Right before season I was tuning my backup bow (reflex extreme)and had it just about right when it started getting weird. No matter what I tried it just wouldn't cooperate. The string was coming undone and I didn't figure it out until one day I opened the bowbox and there my bow set with the string popped and the bow extended to the point where the cables stopped it.
I was in a rush so I had my wife drop it off at a proshop in the city where she works. I picked it up a couple of days later and brought it home to find it would only pull 65# instead of it's normal 70#.
The proshop told me they didn't have a regular string for it so they put on a Z-bra twist string that cross referenced as the right size.
My question is- is the string too short, or too long?? can I put some twist in or out of the string or cable to get it back to 70# pull?
My arrows went from 260 to 252 after the new string. I haven't shot it enough to stretch the string as it is only my back up bow. But now I'm ready to get it right (or get rid of it once I get a new bow-maybe).
Any help will be much appreciated, thanks.
I just checked the mark I put on the cam when I first got it and it appears the string is too short as the mark is at least 1/4" away from it's reference point on the limb.
Edited by - DaveC on 12/03/2002 15:14:50
Right before season I was tuning my backup bow (reflex extreme)and had it just about right when it started getting weird. No matter what I tried it just wouldn't cooperate. The string was coming undone and I didn't figure it out until one day I opened the bowbox and there my bow set with the string popped and the bow extended to the point where the cables stopped it.
I was in a rush so I had my wife drop it off at a proshop in the city where she works. I picked it up a couple of days later and brought it home to find it would only pull 65# instead of it's normal 70#.
The proshop told me they didn't have a regular string for it so they put on a Z-bra twist string that cross referenced as the right size.
My question is- is the string too short, or too long?? can I put some twist in or out of the string or cable to get it back to 70# pull?
My arrows went from 260 to 252 after the new string. I haven't shot it enough to stretch the string as it is only my back up bow. But now I'm ready to get it right (or get rid of it once I get a new bow-maybe).
Any help will be much appreciated, thanks.
I just checked the mark I put on the cam when I first got it and it appears the string is too short as the mark is at least 1/4" away from it's reference point on the limb.
Edited by - DaveC on 12/03/2002 15:14:50
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: maryland USA
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RE: New string & now bow pulls 5lbs. less?
is it a single cam??? if it is leave the buss cables alone and untwist the string a few turns, that should bring it up a few lbs. or tighten the cables up and leave the string alone..
Evan
Archery Accessories
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Evan
Archery Accessories
301-872-0110