Question:
- What the heck?
- Anybody seen this before? Did you manage to solve it? And if so, how?
Situation: During the last part of the draw, a recurve bow clicks occasionally. As in it doesn’t happen at every draw. When the click occurs it consistently happens immediately before the actual clicker, causing confusion for the archer, and lost spin wings.
It’s not my bow, it belongs to an archer at my club.
Setup: hoyt gmx3 riser, kinetic carbon bamboom #32 limbs, beiter plunger and clicker, and a shibuya ultima arrow rest.
The bow has shot about 15k arrows in the current setup over the last 10 months. Limbs were bought second hand, and has shot considerably more.
Immediately before: The issue arose after aligning the limbs using the horizontal bolts. The bolts were supposedly tightened correctly. Ie I trust the people who did it, as they are way more experienced than me.
Attempted: So far I’ve tried tightening the counter bolt on the limbs weight adjustment bolt. It was plenty tight. I didn’t have a lot of time, so I haven’t had time to try anything else. The bow has shot about 100 arrows after my attempt, and it still happened enough to pull the wings off of 3 arrows.
Plan of action:
- I will double check the horizontal adjustment, and the bolts tightness.
- I will have a look at the limb pockets, perhaps put a bit of string wax in them.
- We will try swapping limbs. But I’ve seen this before and brand new limbs didn’t solve it.
I am still a new archer, only been shooting in a club for a year and a half, have my own bow for only a year. So take what I say with a pinch of your favorite spice.
It happened to me for some time. I found out that it was caused by one of the tiller bolts: both of them have had a plastic underside in order to protect the limb and one of them came off slightly. I took a look at “your” riser and I do not think that it is build in the same way but may worth taking a look at this part.
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