Bow Tune

[USSHornet]

If you back off your limbs a few turns will it increase your draw length

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[Dmathews87]

If you back off your limbs a few turns will it increase your draw length

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as in decrease your poundage?...shouldn't affect your draw length...

 

[USSHornet]

as in decrease your poundage?...shouldn't affect your draw length...

Yep, backing off a skosh weird..I can easily draw 59 but 61 little iffy

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[Halfstep]

Depends on the bow. But if you are only dropping a couple pounds of draw weight, it won't change the draw length enough to notice.

 

[jsh909]

Depending on the bow, backing off the limb bolts can increase brace height and increase draw length incrementally. Most likely not noticeably depending on limb pocket/riser design by releasing pressure off the limbs and changing ATA length. You should be able to compensate for the change by adjusting your dloop length

 

[Camelcluch]

Lower the weight and adjust your release or d loop if you have too

 

[coolhand78]

I just watched a Dudley video which suggested that turning down your draw weight a bit is fine, but you shouldn't turn it down too much. I don't think he said a specific limit, but perhaps never more than +/- 5lbs? Any thoughts on this? He said when you back out your limb bolts too much, your string may become slightly loose, which will create increased play/variance which will lead to inconsistency.

 

[woodsdog2]

I just watched a Dudley video which suggested that turning down your draw weight a bit is fine, but you shouldn't turn it down too much. I don't think he said a specific limit, but perhaps never more than +/- 5lbs? Any thoughts on this? He said when you back out your limb bolts too much, your string may become slightly loose, which will create increased play/variance which will lead to inconsistency.

Agree 100% The most important point he is trying to make is buy a bow at or near the maximum draw weight you can effectively handle. And I don’t mean just pull back, I mean sit down in a chair, lift your feet up off the ground and draw with your back muscles as much as possible. If you can draw the bow back smoothly while doing this you’re not “over bowed” as the ole timers use to say. If you can shoot 70lbs doing this then buy a bow with the maximum weight with the limbs tightened all the way down of 70lbs. If you can draw only 60lbs than buy a maxed out 60lb bow. Ideally the bow system is most efficient with the limbs tightened all the way to the riser. That’s what I like about the switch weight system of Matthews. You buy poundage and draw length mods instead of backing out the limb bolts. The overall system is just more efficient that way.

 

[woodsdog2]

With the above being said, there is no harm to back out your limb bolts as long as you don’t back them out too far but minor adjustments to tweak arrow flight from half a turn to up to three full turns on each limb isn’t the end of the world. But again, if you have to seriously back out your limb bolts to shoot the bow, you need a lower max poundage draw weight bow so the maximum draw weight with the limbs tightened all the way down is at a comfortable level for you. Trust me, in the cold November and December deer woods 70 feels like 80, 60 feels like 70 etc. so on and so forth.

The other thing about turning your limb bolts is you want to keep the turns as even as possible for each limb. If you do not you change your nock loop height and peep sight height etc. keeping the turns the same will minimize this. Once set, take measurements or pics of measurements with your phone of everything so you can adjust it back to your tuned bow settings.

Finally, make sure you’re not going beyond the maximum number of turns the manufacturer recommends for your particular bow model. Obtain access to the bow’s owners manual if you don’t have it. I know each manufacturer has this somewhere. Most bow manufacturers have downloadable owners manuals for their bows. Read them it is important.

 

[Camelcluch]

This is a good fact to look at. Most people buy 70# bows and turn the bolts. However, we should be buying the closest thing to our max. Bow typically go a little over max so a 65er may go to 67. The companies make the components we just have to buy them to get the most out of the system. Typically a 60# max bow is more efficient than a 70#er turned down.

 

[kbetts]

Yep, backing off a skosh weird..I can easily draw 59 but 61 little iffy

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Not uncommon imo. I've had bows that you could really feel the difference between the limbs being "locked down" at max vs backing off one turn.

 

[USSHornet]

Depending on the bow, backing off the limb bolts can increase brace height and increase draw length incrementally. Most likely not noticeably depending on limb pocket/riser design by releasing pressure off the limbs and changing ATA length. You should be able to compensate for the change by adjusting your dloop length

I have a Hoyt carbon Defiant I assumed taking some compression off the limbs may increase lengthen my string a bit but my specs on ATA and Brace are ok they are a little variance but not much my hope is I can reverse this after getting more reps drawing my bow

 

[Camelcluch]

The string doesn’t lengthen but the tension is relaxed. However, the defiant series was known for hand pressure sensitivity. That could make it seem like the bow is out of tune.