Take 'em in another turn...

 

Could be variation between shop scale and your scale. Personally I wouldn't worry about the number. Just turn the bolts until it becomes uncomfortable, then back them off a tad. Shoot, strengthen and repeat. 👍

 

Did you actually see the scale at the shop, or did they tell you that? Shops are notorious for “ good nuff”. There 60# is 57.5# to 63#. If someone tells me they want 40# , they get 49#. Not 39.5#. Not 41.3#. 40#. I think a full turn on those , if like my TRX series, is around 5# . .if three turns, then a little over 3# per full turn. I wouldn’t think there would be a 3-5# difference in the scales

 

The problem is that the scales, depending on which is being used, are notorious for being inconsistent. With the handheld being the worst. I've seen the same bow pulling two different weights just with different people doing the testing, by as much as 3-4lbs. Even the good scales can have 1 to 2 pounds of allowed variance.

 

Each turn of the limb bolts should be 1.5 to 2 lbs depending on the bow.

 

Suggest you tighten the limbs all the way in, remembering to count how many turns it takes, and weigh it to find the maximum ON YOUR SCALE. Then back it off the same number of turns you added, and weigh it again. This will tell you exactly how many # per turn it is, and you can experiment all you want since you now will have a baseline to reset it to if you need to.

 

I will try that.

 

Seems that those scales are not always correct there’s may be off, and yours might be off as well. Were you and the shop both using hand held scales? Might be the problem,
Good luck

 

Truthfully, I don't even worry about how many #'s the bow is set at. I find out the maximum number of turns the bow limbs are safe to turn. I Turn in the bow limb bolts until they are bottomed out, or max pounds. THEN, I back out each limb a half turn at a time and shoot until I find the perfect feel I am looking for and then lock them down. I took my bows in to the shop and had them check the lbs. for my own data. This past week, I backed out the limb bolts on my Solution another turn and a half to help with my shoulder issue. I'm not certain the weight of it now, however it is very comfortable to shoot and I still have 5.5 turns left in the bolts. I will have it measured when I go back in to the shop next week to look at buying another bow.

 

I turned the bolts all the way in and got 50.1lbs. That was 4 1/2 turns. I took 2turns back out and it dropped to 43 lbs. one more turn to 40 lbs.

My assumption is the shop turned the bolts 1 1/2 turns beyond this.

Thanks for the advice