Hello there, looking for a little advice.
Just to get the numbers out of the way, I'm shooting a PSE dream season decree around 68-70 lbs, Gold tip hunter 300 spine arrows and 125 grain heads with a 29.5" draw length and 30" arrows.
With the bow set up (timing, no cam lean and centre shot) by the local shop I get tail low and left tears. With a bare shaft the tears are a 35 degree-ish angle about 4" long shooting through paper 6-7 feet away. My broad heads and bare shafts with field points hit high and right compared to my fletched arrows with field points. I can see the bare shafts swing way tail left when I shoot them.
The local shop's instructor had a look at my form and thought it was pretty good but I have tried changing my grip anyways to as many different ways that I can and although it does have minor effects on the tears, they are always low left.
I can get most of the tear out by twisting the yokes (adding to the left and taking out of the right) and bumping the rest, but there ends up being a lot of cam lean and I'm shocked I don't get fletching contact with how far I have to drop the rest to bring the tail up and even move it a bit right to help the cam lean.
I have tried 85 gr points to see if I'm under-spined and the tears were almost identical. I've had the same results on two sets of strings and 2 different D loops on the current set of strings.
Is this the point where I have to swap limbs as I've read some people talk about? Should I just go with a lower profile fletching that's a bit longer to give me some more room to adjust the rest?
I'm pretty confident it isn't form related since I've tried so many different grips and can consistently get the same or similar low left tears. Is my bow just not that great?
At least I have time before next archery season to figure it out
If you read this far, hit me up for a beer if you ever make it out my way.
Just to get the numbers out of the way, I'm shooting a PSE dream season decree around 68-70 lbs, Gold tip hunter 300 spine arrows and 125 grain heads with a 29.5" draw length and 30" arrows.
With the bow set up (timing, no cam lean and centre shot) by the local shop I get tail low and left tears. With a bare shaft the tears are a 35 degree-ish angle about 4" long shooting through paper 6-7 feet away. My broad heads and bare shafts with field points hit high and right compared to my fletched arrows with field points. I can see the bare shafts swing way tail left when I shoot them.
The local shop's instructor had a look at my form and thought it was pretty good but I have tried changing my grip anyways to as many different ways that I can and although it does have minor effects on the tears, they are always low left.
I can get most of the tear out by twisting the yokes (adding to the left and taking out of the right) and bumping the rest, but there ends up being a lot of cam lean and I'm shocked I don't get fletching contact with how far I have to drop the rest to bring the tail up and even move it a bit right to help the cam lean.
I have tried 85 gr points to see if I'm under-spined and the tears were almost identical. I've had the same results on two sets of strings and 2 different D loops on the current set of strings.
Is this the point where I have to swap limbs as I've read some people talk about? Should I just go with a lower profile fletching that's a bit longer to give me some more room to adjust the rest?
I'm pretty confident it isn't form related since I've tried so many different grips and can consistently get the same or similar low left tears. Is my bow just not that great?
At least I have time before next archery season to figure it out
If you read this far, hit me up for a beer if you ever make it out my way.