Hi all, I will post pictures later, but I wanted to type of the text of the post on my lunch break. Bought the bow in December 2019. Shoots great, started learning about tuning and ran into something. I have an EZ green press and draw board, so I have the equipment to work it out once I understand the process more.
The bow came at 50lbs draw with some Beman arrows, 400 spine, and 100gr field points. Shot, damaged, lost vanes, lost a few arrows, and bought a fletching jig, an arrow saw, squaring device, and some new Easton 6.5 classic shafts, and started paper tuning. 7 yards back with the 400 spine, I was getting a 3 inch nock left tear, 5 inch bareshaft nock left tear. I add twists to left yoke, no change, move rest per the Easton guide, no change. Lower poundage, no change. (no significant changes I should say.)
I buy some Easton 6.5 classic shafts, but this time with a 60gr insert instead of the ones that come with it (I think 29gr or so), and I go with 340 spine. Cut the problem in half back at stock settings for yokes and rest. I put 3 twists in left yoke, it's almost gone, and with 4.5 twists maybe 5, I may have lost track of a half twist, and they shoot bullet holes bareshaft. Centershot I have set just above center of arrow to center of berger hole, and 13/16 from riser. Also I am now at 60lbs draw, and a 28.5" DL (including the 1.75 you add onto grip to d loop measurement)
The root question is this. What is an appropriate amount of cam lean? I tried researching on Archery talk and it's overwhelming. Seems like consensus is Hoyt's will usually tune with cam lean, and I would assume yoke tuning will just make this more so if you need to adjust in the same direction it's already leaning. Mine shoots bullet holes with a decent amount of lean. Stock it had some lean when it was brand new, like an arrow would cross maybe an inch above the d loop. Now it's enough so it's obvious its leaning quite a bit.
I shoot weekly at a JOAD program, so aside from throwing out shots during tuning that I know are bad, I am not aware of any significant form issues (shooting 260s usually with a hunting setup, Hamskea Raptor 1/4 peep, IQ 3 pin hunting site, Hamskea Trinity hunter rest, and a Stanislawski index release.
I am not unhappy with how it's shooting, more worried about any downsides to it being that far off, like limb wear, spacer wear, axle problems in a twisted system.
I can post a pic of how much the string comes off the cam leaning to show it when I get home.
The bow came at 50lbs draw with some Beman arrows, 400 spine, and 100gr field points. Shot, damaged, lost vanes, lost a few arrows, and bought a fletching jig, an arrow saw, squaring device, and some new Easton 6.5 classic shafts, and started paper tuning. 7 yards back with the 400 spine, I was getting a 3 inch nock left tear, 5 inch bareshaft nock left tear. I add twists to left yoke, no change, move rest per the Easton guide, no change. Lower poundage, no change. (no significant changes I should say.)
I buy some Easton 6.5 classic shafts, but this time with a 60gr insert instead of the ones that come with it (I think 29gr or so), and I go with 340 spine. Cut the problem in half back at stock settings for yokes and rest. I put 3 twists in left yoke, it's almost gone, and with 4.5 twists maybe 5, I may have lost track of a half twist, and they shoot bullet holes bareshaft. Centershot I have set just above center of arrow to center of berger hole, and 13/16 from riser. Also I am now at 60lbs draw, and a 28.5" DL (including the 1.75 you add onto grip to d loop measurement)
The root question is this. What is an appropriate amount of cam lean? I tried researching on Archery talk and it's overwhelming. Seems like consensus is Hoyt's will usually tune with cam lean, and I would assume yoke tuning will just make this more so if you need to adjust in the same direction it's already leaning. Mine shoots bullet holes with a decent amount of lean. Stock it had some lean when it was brand new, like an arrow would cross maybe an inch above the d loop. Now it's enough so it's obvious its leaning quite a bit.
I shoot weekly at a JOAD program, so aside from throwing out shots during tuning that I know are bad, I am not aware of any significant form issues (shooting 260s usually with a hunting setup, Hamskea Raptor 1/4 peep, IQ 3 pin hunting site, Hamskea Trinity hunter rest, and a Stanislawski index release.
I am not unhappy with how it's shooting, more worried about any downsides to it being that far off, like limb wear, spacer wear, axle problems in a twisted system.
I can post a pic of how much the string comes off the cam leaning to show it when I get home.