Are Bad Set Ups Common?

[canhunter]

Questions requires a lead in story.
Just had a guy stop by to help tune his bow. Holy crap was it poorly set up. He said he had not touched it since the guy sold it to him. The guy who sold it claimed (and did according to the new owner) to have shot a lot of animals with it. We are talking one fiber optic totally gone except the tip, hard mounted almost all metal quiver,no limb savers, string silencers, mole skin, anything to reduce noise. The arrow literally was so out of level it looked like a ramp. The first bare shaft through paper after leveling tore six inch's sideways at 10ft!!!! One prong was obviously wore through to the metal and the other was barely rubbed. Oh yeah, the rest would barely move when you pushed it down. The new owner thought this was a pretty good bow (it will be) until I started pointing out some things. Pulled out the LX (or any well tuned/smooth bow)shot a couple and he was trying to walk out the door with it. LOL He was doubting the paper tuning I was doing, and could only say "HOLY S*&^) when the LX bullet holed it. Immediatly he knew something was wrong with his. It took less then a hour to have his shooting as good as my LX. After he installs some quieting items it will be a sweet/fairly quiet shooter . It seems that this is fairly common based on what I have seen. I have seen a lot of set ups worse then this. I have talked to quite a few reasonably serious hunters and they seemed to know what they are doing. Then they pull out their rig and I am amazed at the condition/appearance of it. Now that the story is done the question arrives. IS THIS TYPE OF SITUATION MORE COMMON OR LESS COMMON???

 

[coonhound40]

I am amazed every year when I see some of the Junk in bow hunters hands. I think we have a ton of people that talk the talk but don't walk it to well.

When I see a guy that has miss matched fletching, not color, size. And on a couple occasions, aluminum and carbon in the same quiver. It really makes you wonder how much this guy really understands about the sport.

I've alway been rubbed the wrong way with excessive control from our government but maybe a lesson in archery physics would be a good prerequisit to receiving your archery tag????

 

[tageater]

Give the guy props for even coming into you, he may have just taken the word of the guy he bought it from, thinking all was well. I would bet that this happens all too often as well.

 

[NickJ1980]

I know a guy who hunts with carbons and aluminum arrows in the same quiver, but they shoot right together (4-5" group) out to 40 yards (with broadheads) which is as far as he shoots anyway. He's killed 20 some deer with a bow and a couple of elk, and his first 10 or so deer were killed with a recurve he made himself. And, he wears white running shoes with his camoflauge while he's hunting.

Don't be too quick to judge on appearance alone... But I would like to see better ethics among bowhunters, there are some real idiots out there.

Okay, I'm done hijacking this thread.

I would guess bad set ups probably account for 10% of bows in the field.

 

[tageater]

I've alway been rubbed the wrong way with excessive control from our government but maybe a lesson in archery physics would be a good prerequisit to receiving your archery tag????
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while they are testing for that why not IQ test before just anyone can become a parent----- Not a personal jab, just saying we got enough dumb azz's on the earth, not just shooting bows

 

[canhunter]

The new bow owner wanted it set up as correctly as possible. It just suprised me how poorly it was set up (and hunted with) from what was so easily possible. Oh I think a guy can make it work but why not have it shooting as well as it could.

 

[WARBIRDUM]

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[Legolas]

I met a guy hiking out of a canyon up on the Monte. We did the usual "see anything?" chat and he told me he had to go to town to get a new string. Turned out he didn't need a string, just a new serving. I told him I could save him a trip and took him to my campsite.

I pulled out my little kit and replaced the serving and nock point in about 15 minutes. I've always got a target in camp so I told him to take a couple shots. As soon as he drew back, I saw that his tiller was way off - it was that bad. So I reset his limb bolts, reset the nock point again and you guessed it, he didn't know how to sight in his pins, either. Pretty hard to set the pins since he couldn't put two arrows in the same place with the target at 20 yards.

I think that was the first time I ever felt bad for doing a good deed. I probably should have just "accidently" sliced his string.