Bow Poundage problem!!??
 

I got a question for some of you techies! I am shooting a 70lb Martin Jaguar Magnum that is 9-10yrs old. It was shot for the most part at 64lbs.

It is at the pro-shop right now with new cables on it, the strings might have 100-150shots through them? I asked him to check the pull weight on it and he said its at 64lbs? I asked him if it was for sure bottomed out and he said yes the limbs wont move anymore? I did crank the bow down before I took it to him and when I dropped it off before the new cables it was only pulling 62lbs??!!

Haha he is tryng to tell me I have a 60lb bow. I assured him that my bow is 70lbs, I know what I bought even thought the bow info is rubbed off? He says he can twist the cable and get me another 2-3lbs out of it and that my limbs are probably weakened??

Is there something I am missing?

PS: I know I should have gotten the cables the same time as the strings but I was tying to pinch a dollar?!!

Is everything "in spec.???" Does the BH meet what it is supposed to, is the axle-to-axle correct, if so, then it may be an issue of worn out limbs, if not, you need to get things into "spec." before even trying to guess what the max poundage is.

Haha you know what I do not know? That is why I take it to him, it is the brother of one of the best bow tech's in the area but he moved so I am hoping that if he knows half of what his brother did he should be able to figure it out??

Although he didnt even mention about checking ANY of that stuff!! Thanks for the tip, I will have him check it out more when I go to pick it up tommorow or sat??

He might be partly right, but you can twist up those cables to get to at least 67lbs. Have him check the Axle to Axle, there can be 1/4 slop there. Big thing is to make sure the string length (under tension). The string length is important.

Is this the guys on backbone mountain?

Big you got a PM!!

I am waiting to see the answer to BigCountry's question. I know the Skeevhoris(sp?) boys very well. Used to hunt the Beechwood Club.

Is that the club off of Tablerock and Kempton Roads? He hunts over there.

Those boys seem to know thier stuff, I stop in there a lot during turkey season, and watched him fixing up bows. Seems to do quality work.

Well I found the specs to my bow and called him up to have him check it out.....

My ATA Spec is 33 1/4" and it measures at 33 5/16" just a 16th of an inch long..

My BH Spec is 6 3/4" and it was just under he said at almost 6 11/16"...

He did twist the cables and got me to 66lbs??

I think this is going to be about the best it can get too!!??

A bow that old, the limbs could have gotten weaker. I have seen a few of my old PSE's and Brownings loose 3-4lbs (in spec or even over) over an 8 year period. Just don't do what I did once and twist them way over ATA specs to get back up to 70lbs. At that point, disaster is waiting to happen. Well, maybe not disaster, but a busted limb.

Yeah Big I think I am done tinkering around trying ot get all I can get out of it! I was hoping to shoot mechanicals this year, but I dont think I wanna chance it without having all that I can get out of my bow?! I will have to send it through the chrono and see where I am at now with speed/KE!

Thanks everybody for the help!!

Big Country, that is indeed the club off Kempton Rd/Tablerock. I had a tree over there that I took 11 bucks out of in as many straight season openers. Then some guys that hung out at the shop finally found my seceret spot and surrounded me. I got my buck at first light. I was field testing Magnus Stingers for Mike Sohms that year. One of them even came and pulled the arrow out of the dirt, looked at it, the dead deer, looked around and assumed I had to be close, and stuck it back in the dirt and started to leave. I finally hollered at them. They didn't see me in my leafy suit. That was my last trip over there. Lots of new guys in there and they are making it a recreation area.
That, and they cut all the timber. Good cover but only so many spots to hunt now.