I finally did it...

[L.O.S.T.Arrow]

Originally Posted by brohymn2

Ya you will have to resign. Probably not much. Someone with more experience correct me but you may need new arrows too because the change in lbs will change your arrows spine making them too weak. Maybe post what your arrows are with spine and length and someone will be able to chime in

Not that drastic ..no need to resign...just resight...hahaaaaa

This is fun to work with...Sight caculator...

http://www.pinwheelsoftware.com/help...ac&help_item=4
http://www.bascule.demon.co.uk/sight/index.htm

Your 400's should be good to 60 lb..on the lighter side

Neil

[raab]

Forgot to add the Bow also came with a stabilizer.

[fitzy17]

I find that i have to twist my peep sight before every shot. I was told this is common for new bows and will fix itself after 200+ shots. Is that accurate? what if it doesn't fix it self, what would be the cause?

[rem009]

Congrats

[Lefty-Canuck]

Originally Posted by fitzy17

I find that i have to twist my peep sight before every shot. I was told this is common for new bows and will fix itself after 200+ shots. Is that accurate? what if it doesn't fix it self, what would be the cause?

Have Carson or Dave press it and put a half twist in your string....Prob solved!

LC

[normanrd]

Originally Posted by fitzy17

I find that i have to twist my peep sight before every shot. I was told this is common for new bows and will fix itself after 200+ shots. Is that accurate? what if it doesn't fix it self, what would be the cause?

It won't "fix" itself. After a few hundred shots, if you have a decent quality stringing it will stop moving. Then you can put twists into the string to get it to line up. Once this is done, it should move very little afterward.

[fitzy17]

Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck

Have Carson or Dave press it and put a half twist in your string....Prob solved!

LC

plan on heading there friday after work to take some shots and get them to increase my poundage, pretty sure I can do 60 lbs fine, feels like butter right now at 50. So while I'm there ill let them know about the peep sight. Thanks guys

[raab]

Originally Posted by fitzy17

plan on heading there friday after work to take some shots and get them to increase my poundage, pretty sure I can do 60 lbs fine, feels like butter right now at 50. So while I'm there ill let them know about the peep sight. Thanks guys

I dunno if I'd go to high unless its ridiculously easy to hold right now. I was talking hunting with a buddy last night and he was telling me a story where he had to hold at full draw for 5 minutes waiting for a buck to come into his shooting lane. Maybe thats not the norm but after thinking about it I could see that happening quite a bit if your hunting from the ground.

[fitzy17]

i don't think it'll too high. Ill try it out, if its too much then ill go back to what I'm currently at. But right now I can pretty much hold at full draw for quite a while. Its only after shooting an hour and a half worth of arrows that I start feeling some fatigue, and Im pretty sure i won't be be drawing/shooting that many times while in the bush

[raab]

Originally Posted by fitzy17

i don't think it'll too high. Ill try it out, if its too much then ill go back to what I'm currently at. But right now I can pretty much hold at full draw for quite a while. Its only after shooting an hour and a half worth of arrows that I start feeling some fatigue, and Im pretty sure i won't be be drawing/shooting that many times while in the bush

Yea, I hear you. I'll probably end up doing the same thing. Just thought it might be something worth considering, because I had never considered the possibility of holding a extended draw position while hunting.

[SportHuntingHelp]

Peep site should be an easy fix and a minor adjustment. Here is a good test to check your bow draw weight sit down in a chair lift your feet up and draw your bow. If this is easy go for 60lbs. Better to be comfortable drawing in any situation than increase your poundage. IMHO

P.S make sure you have an arrow nocked when doing the test.

[L.O.S.T.Arrow]

Originally Posted by SportHuntingHelp

Peep site should be an easy fix and a minor adjustment. Here is a good test to check your bow draw weight sit down in a chair lift your feet up and draw your bow. If this is easy go for 60lbs. Better to be comfortable drawing in any situation than increase your poundage. IMHO

P.S make sure you have an arrow nocked when doing the test.

yup good test...I do that test to show shooters what it may be like after sitting in a stand for a hour in colder weather...back straight on chair feet close in...raise feet 2-6 inches....some cant draw the bow...a sign of being overbowed...

Neil

[kujoseto]

And some can't lift their feet eh Neil? Lol
I think it's because I have no upper body weight to keep me from tipping forward. I'll try it again at home and get practiced up with my sitting for when I return to draw that bow again.

[fitzy17]

Originally Posted by SportHuntingHelp

Peep site should be an easy fix and a minor adjustment. Here is a good test to check your bow draw weight sit down in a chair lift your feet up and draw your bow. If this is easy go for 60lbs. Better to be comfortable drawing in any situation than increase your poundage. IMHO

P.S make sure you have an arrow nocked when doing the test.

thanks, ill try that out first.

[SportHuntingHelp]

Originally Posted by fitzy17

thanks, ill try that out first.

Nothing worse than being over bowed in November after sitting for 8 hrs in sub weather and you can't draw your bow on that buck. Not that it ever happened to me but I hear it can happen.

[L.O.S.T.Arrow]

Back when I wasnt so... ummmm wise...lol
but young and Delusional I had an old 30% let off bow @ 78 LBS...cold november day...biggest whitetail I have ever seen 10 yards under stand...could not draw that bow even with my knees..

learned the hard way...did get that buck a few years later but he was way on the down swing antler wise...

Neil