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Small portion of sight housing covered by riser in my peep

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#1 ·
So I have my bow punching bullet holes, but I noticed when I was sighting in, that my sight housing is partially covered by the riser when I'm at full draw.

The pins are perfectly visible but don't think I've run into this before in my older bows.

Shooting a halon 32 which the riser seems SUPER thick by comparison to my other mathews.

Is this OK? Or do I have something off in my tune?

Tried to show it as best I could in the picture.
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#2 ·
What does the centershot measure at?
Is the arrow tuned inside (towards the riser)?

My guess is that the bow is tuned too far inside to get a bullet, or you're torquing the bow, but I'll bet the former.
If so, you'll need to change the top hats and move the cam...
 
#3 ·
The top hats keep coming up.... Looks like I may not be able to avoid this, but I want this bow super tuned.

Id take it to a po shop if I felt like the 21 year old behind the counter knew more about bows than I do!

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#6 ·
Apparently this is a Mathews issue. Mine does the same thing.

Rather than just "setting it to 13/16" and forgetting it" hold a straight edge against your riser with an arrow nicked and measure if your arrow is parallel to the straight edge.

http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=5294541&highlight=

Good place to start....
 
#7 ·
I would buy a bow press! It's worth every penny if you want it tuned properly.
 
#9 ·
How big is your housing and how far is it extended in front of the riser? If the arrow is only 13/16' from the riser, then you're not going to see more than 13/16" on the right side of your pins at full draw if the sight is close to the riser, the farther out the sight is extended, the more you'll be able to see on the right side of the pins (assuming right handed archer)
 
#11 ·
There are two ways to think about tuning,

1. God himself nails down the powerstroke of the bow and you can not change it and you choose to move the arrow rest left right up down and find the location of the arrow rest to give good arrow flight because it is directly in front of the power stroke.

2. Learn how to move the powerstroke of the bow by yoke tuning or shimming so that you can put it directly behind the arrow rest that you put in a nice central location.

Your bow doesn't have yokes so you could choose to move the cams left or right to move your powerstroke and control your arrow flight.