Strange Bow Phenomenon

[A_Matthew]

My brand new Parker Legend XP compound bow that I bought in August of 2010 just did something very weird to me. The bow is a 60-70# bow, and I originally set it up for 60#. I just had a guy at Cabelas tune it up for me today, and at the same time, I had him raise the poundage. A few minutes later, he comes out of the work room and states that he cranked the poundage all the way up on my bow, and it registers at 61#. He thought that the string probably stretched, but one of my expert archery friends said that could never happen. The only thing I can think of to make this happen is that he goofed when he was measuring the poundage. Any thoughts?

Matthew

 

[mgregg85]

I don't know much about archery but I would take it to a different shop for a second opinion if it was my bow.

 

[A_Matthew]

Originally posted by mgregg85
I don't know much about archery but I would take it to a different shop for a second opinion if it was my bow.

Hopefully, I'll be able to get over to another sporting goods store near my house tomorrow that has a digital poundage scale. They normally give a more accurate reading than your standard meat scale type measurer. If it does give the same reading as the one at Cabelas, (61#) then I'll be glad that Parker has a lifetime warranty...

Matthew

 

[A_Matthew]

I was able to take my bow to the previously mentioned sporting goods store, and with the digital scale, it measured at 69.3#! That's close enough to 70# in my book. I'm so glad I didn't get a messed up bow.

Matthew

 

[rcmodel]

Might ought to go back and tell the Cabala's fella what you found out and save someone else some grief.

Sounds like a head-banging session I had last year with my trucks wheel alignment.

Had it aligned four times over a couple of months at the dealers, and it still pulled to the right and wandered all over the road. They finally decided it was the front tires.
Put $400 bucks worth of new tires on the front and aligned it again, and still not driving right!

Come to find out, their new mega-buck computer controlled wheel alignment machine was out of calibration by a few degree's!!

rc

 

[A_Matthew]

Originally posted by rcmodel
Might ought to go back and tell the Cabala's fella what you found out and save someone else some grief.

I'll definitely do that next time I'm over there.

Sounds like a head-banging session I had last year with my trucks wheel alignment.

Had it aligned four times over a couple of months at the dealers, and it still pulled to the right and wandered all over the road. They finally decided it was the front tires.
Put $400 bucks worth of new tires on the front and aligned it again, and still not driving right!

Come to find out, their new mega-buck computer controlled wheel alignment machine was out of calibration by a few degree's!!

Yikes! That's an expensive mistake! But, we're all human; therefore, we make mistakes.

Matthew