Setting up an oldie

So I mentioned I just rebuilt an old Hoyt Pro Vantage Tracer in another post but I've had a few problems to work around.

So I thought I'd detail them here just in case someone else ran into a similar situation with an old bow.

This bow is a late 80s bow. I think an 89 model. My younger cousin, whom I call my nephew bought it when he was a teenager. Eventually he moved on to a more modern compound bow and then eventually to a crossbow. So he had the Hoyt thrown in a shed in and the string and cables had broken and it was a mess with mud dobbers nests in every hole. The decal on the limb: DSS Special, is his initials.

After sanding it down and getting rid of the camo paint and installing new string and cables and adding some vintage accessories I was having trouble getting satisfactory arrow flight.

I found that one limb was about 3 turns of the limb bolts weaker than the other. I tried swapping the limbs from one end to the other. I tried tillering the bottom limb 1/8 inch closer to the string than the top string as they used to do back in the day.

Nothing helped.

I continued to get a nock high kick with the arrows and tear in my paper.

Finally my solution was I simply cranked both limbs down the same number of turns and put 10 extra twists in the top cable.

Finally! I began getting better bare shaft bullet holes through the paper.

You can see with the picture of the paper the top hole was 8 twists, left hole 9, right hole 10.

Now I'm ready for some indoor!

And as you can also see, I need to start shooting at a different spot with each arrow while I practice!