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stuckinthemud:
Ok, so I tiller on a tillering tree with callipers and a gizmo, I take the bow about an inch past brace height, going slow and careful. Usually get here with next to no set, curve across the bow is a sweet one.  Measure make and fit the string and brace the bow.  Both limbs have sweet curves but are massively out of balance, lose maybe 10lb getting the bow back into a sweet curve.  Why is the curve of the bow so different when it’s braced compared with when it’s on the tree? How can I avoid this?

Mo_coon-catcher:
Are you using a fixed bow holder that holds the bow solid or a loose one that lets the bow tilt? If it’s a solid holder is the pull rope pulling to one side or the other? At short pull distance it wouldn’t take the rope hooking moving much to show a strength discrepancy. The loose hood style shows the difference pretty quite since it’ll tilt the bow without much weight difference. That’s about all I can think of. Other than that, it’s wood, under stress it seems to just do what it wants and we just have to figure out what it wants to do.

Kyle

stuckinthemud:
I use a fixed hold, rope pull is straight back.

Bob Barnes:
could you post a picture of your bow being puled on the tree?

willie:

--- Quote ---I take the bow about an inch past brace height
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how hard are you pulling to get to brace plus 1"?
also what is your target draw weight?

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