walks with a gimp

Did you check to see if your grip is loose? The grip on my Justice and also the grip on my wife's Patriot is loose on the side that has the BowTech logo engraved in it. I can squeeze the grip and it will give just a bit. If you take your index finger and lightly tap on the area above the BowTech logo, you can hear a hollow sound on our two bows, tapping on the other side sounds solid. Our's isn't bothering our shooting and I'll just wait until it's loose enough to remove and then re-glue,,,, maybe this winter I believe that due to the very thin cross section of wood in the grip, that moisture,,, either absorbed into or has escaped from the grip causing it to spread and is loose on the logo side.

Straightarrow

Atlas,

To narrow it down, I'd take everything off the bow and then add one item at a time. Take off the sight, the grip, quiver, No-peep, stabilizer, even the rest if it may be making noise. add things back one at a time starting with the stabilizer. With the string off, check the cams. Make sure there is no play. When putting accessories back on, I highly recommend putting a layer of mole skin anywhere there is metal to metal contact.

Good luck,

dwaasp

Some people wish to know about how a bow will shoot, so they can tell if a bow has been assembled correct or has defective parts: as the Pro Shop Owner, encountered with this bow. This Shop Owner is one of the best competitive shooters & goes often to meets out of state, so he just took this bow back himself.

Not being loaded, when I pay $700 for a bow, it is expected to perform, almost at least, as well as the company techs tell me it should.

Techy

Not all scales are the same. Yours could be off.

dwaasp

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WOW.........I knew cats had nine lives but not horses. I could have sworn that we have beaten that horse to death already[:'(] It's like dejavu all over again[quote]


I’m sorry, but I did not know that Bowtech’s Correct Assembly of Bows had been brought up 8 times on this forum lately, But one could ask Pat or some other tech at Bowtech, about what they saw wrong with this Bow (H46950115) & ask what dealer they sent it back too, who found an incorrect assembly of it, when they did take it apart to change the limbs????

BobCo19-65

Me too, but the only thing I can trust is how it is shooting in my own hands, no-one elses.

dwaasp

Some people are just different: as indicated several months ago here on these posts, when ones pay $700 + for a bow, I believe one should be able to almost duplicate the way it shot, in the hands of the company tech ??

If not, & the company does not take it down to find the problem, they should pay the Pro Shop Owner or the Bow Owner who found & corrected it ??

nubo

I love my new BowTech Patriot dually,I can't tell you of anything that I don't like about this bow .As far as BowTech's customer relation's I'd have to say that they're number #1 as well .Sorry to hear of your problem's and I hope you can get thing's straightened out .
I'm sure if Walk's with a Gimp get's his hand's on your bow you'll be more than satisfied with the result's .It certainly can't hurt.

nubo

dwaasp

Thanks nubo: BUT the Pro Shop where the bow was bought took it apart and found that it was assembled incorrect.

I believe when a bow does not shoot near the speed the company tech’s, appraisers, or advertisers say it should: when brought back to them they should be the one’s able to tell you it is assembled wrong, without one waiting for a pro shop owner a few months down the road to make the assessment.

Maybe the people you mention should work for them, to stop incorrectly assembled bows from being shipped from the same factory twice.

DaveC

I looked at my limb pockets when it was tore down last week and couldn't grasp what was folded over on yours, could you specify what the issue was?

Inside my limb pocket I saw a white plastic shim with a slot in the middle for the limb bolt to slide through, kinda looked like teflon. But it looked way too thick to fold over and if it was I can only assume the limb would sit crooked. When I look at the assembled bow I can see a piece of black plastic sitting towards the rear, some sort of spacer.

p.s. mines still slow, but as I've said in the past- oh well. Live and learn.
65#, 29" draw, peep sight(no tube), ONE cat whisker on top, string loop w/ tied in nock, 418 grain arrow= 263-265 fps (both my chrony and the shops). Sound slow to any of you?
Maybe the new extra lubed limb pockets will fetch me another fps[:-]!