Hi everyone; I just finished setting up a brand new 27/60 Mathews Creed (which I love overall) and am having a bit of a problem paper tuning correcting a small “tail left” tear. My bow draw weight is maxed out (which my scale says is actually 58 lbs). I have installed QAD ultra HDX rest and shoot carbon express mayhem hunter 250 28.25" arrows using a release. My center shot is set at 11/16 (seems to be the standard for the Creed) and I cannot go further towards the riser than a couple of 16ths. Even doing this makes no difference, I still cannot achieve bullet holes.
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As you can see, the error is not that much and maybe I am being too anal in trying to correct it, but for the life of me, I have not been able to so and I am consistently getting this tear. Maybe it’s my form which I have been trying to pay attention to when doing this, but that has not helped.
What is very confusing is that I have researched this, and some places say move the rest away from the riser and others say move it toward the riser. I have tried moving the arrow rest right (as most sites on paper tuning recommend) as much as possible to correct this tear but cannot go too far as there is not much clearance on the Creed, and moving the rest too far right causes the fletches to hit the red cable.
Any help on this is appreciated.
TWO things:
1) top axle, left side...PULL DOWN with an extra twist or at MOST, a MAXIMUM of adding two complete twists.
2) top axle, RIGHT SIDE...allow the top axle, right side to RISE UP, by removing, at a MAXIMUM, removing two completely twists...no more than this.
3) do not move your arrow rest any more...this is really a BAND aid approach.
4) shorten the draw length..you KNOW you need to do this...say 1/16th inch at a time.
THINK of your release side forearm as a LASER POINTER.
So,
IF I DUCT TAPE a flashlight on top of your forearm,
see where the LASER POINTER is pointing.
A SIDEWAYS paper tear,
means...
exactly that,
you are pulling SIDEWAYS on the bowstring,
so
the back end of the arrow, the nock
also flies SIDEWAYS,
and
when the nock end of the arrow is pulled SIDEWAYS by YOU, the shooter,
then,
the nock end travels NOT in line with the point of the arrow
and the back end of the arrow RIPS the paper SIDEWAYS to the LEFT,
cuz,
YOU the shooter,
PULLED the bowstring SIDEWAYS to the left.
So,
you can CHEAT and move the arrow rest to the RIGHT,
if you ABSOLUTELY refuse to fix your shooting posture.
Here is a real world, example
of what I mean,
by a shooter who is pulling the bowstring back at full draw
AND
inducing a MASSIVE sideways pull on the bowstring to the left.
Right handed shooter,
who is in MAJOR denial about draw length.
DASHED red line is where a laser pointer would point,
showing you where the arrow WANTS to fly,
with no steering correction.
BACK end of the arrow is going to be pulled WAY LEFT.
FRONT end of the arrow is going to be pushed WAY RIGHT.
So,
if this shooter could move the arrow rest say 2 FEET to the right...
then,
this shooter would get his BULLET HOLE...
the bullet hole would be 6 feet to the RIGHT of where he is aiming,
but,
hey,
he get's his bullet hole.
So,
since he cannot move his rest 24-inches to the RIGHT,
since his bow does not have this much adjustment to the RIGHT,
then,
he also tries moving the arrow rest all the way to the MAX to the LEFT
and
also get the same result..
the worlds LARGEST, most MASSIVE left paper tear...
for obvious reasons.
So,
the REAL FIX,
is not yoke tuning....yoke tuning is meant only for TINY paper tears,
like yours.
For someone who looks like this...
The ONLY FIX
is to change the bow DL,
and look like this...
with a much much shorter bow DRAW LENGTH,
so the elbow SWINGS AROUND the shoulder,
like a door on a hinge.
So,
try PULLING DOWN, top axle, LEFT SIDE.
Do not do 4 adjustments all at once.
STEP 1: add a half twist to the top axle, LEFT side, and see if this fixes things.
ADJUSTMENT 2: add another half twist to the top axle, LEFT side, and see if this fixes things.
ADJUSTMENT 3: REMOVE a half twist from the top axle, RIGHT side, and see if this fixes things.
ADJUSTMENT 4: REMOVE another half twist from the top axle, RIGHT side, and see if this fixes things.
ADJUSTMENT 5: add another half twist to the top axle, LEFT side, and see if this fixes things.
ADJUSTMENT 6: add another half twist to the top axle, LEFT side, and see if this fixes things.
ADJUSTMENT 7: REMOVE another half twist from the top axle, RIGHT side, and see if this fixes things.
ADJUSTMENT 8: REMOVE another half twist from the top axle, RIGHT side, and see if this fixes things.
If you go through EIGHT trips to the bow press,
and this does not fix things..
STOP,
no more tweaking the top axle
and change the draw length
in small amounts.
For your paper tear,
it will not require EIGHT trips to the bow press.
For other people,
it will.
