Corax67
Well-known member
Hi guys - I have a taxing tale from this morning.
I am shooting a borrowed 2006 Hoyt ProTec and doing nicely, managing 340 Frostbite scores at the moment so quite pleased.
A 2008 Hoyt UltraTec (bare bow) has come up for sale at an amazingly good price so our club technician has kindly fitted some of his spare kit to it for me to try before buying and brought it along this morning.
The two bows are pretty much identical aside from minor styling details on the risers so once we raised the peep on the 2008 we assumed I would be off and running.
BUT NO ! ! !
Had ad already shot most of a Frostbite round on the 2006 when the 2008 came over to test - as soon as I drew up there was an immediate problem. My sight picture was totally wrong. The peep and string were to the right of the riser instead of in a neat line on the left running through the scope and rest as per the 2006.
The 2006 has a Speciality Pro peep fitted but the 2008 has a peep attached by tubing to a stop on one of the bow string to pull it straight. When I removed the tubing the sight picture then came back to the LHS of the riser - not perfect but much better.
Eventually we raised the peep and managed to get it to face forward on its own volition but then I found that I couldn't see through the peep as the tunnel was now pointing down at an angle at full draw.
At this point I gave up for the day and retired to the rugby club bar.
Any ideas what is causing all this mucking about when the two bows should work exactly the same and what do we do to sort it out please ??
Karl
I am shooting a borrowed 2006 Hoyt ProTec and doing nicely, managing 340 Frostbite scores at the moment so quite pleased.
A 2008 Hoyt UltraTec (bare bow) has come up for sale at an amazingly good price so our club technician has kindly fitted some of his spare kit to it for me to try before buying and brought it along this morning.
The two bows are pretty much identical aside from minor styling details on the risers so once we raised the peep on the 2008 we assumed I would be off and running.
BUT NO ! ! !
Had ad already shot most of a Frostbite round on the 2006 when the 2008 came over to test - as soon as I drew up there was an immediate problem. My sight picture was totally wrong. The peep and string were to the right of the riser instead of in a neat line on the left running through the scope and rest as per the 2006.
The 2006 has a Speciality Pro peep fitted but the 2008 has a peep attached by tubing to a stop on one of the bow string to pull it straight. When I removed the tubing the sight picture then came back to the LHS of the riser - not perfect but much better.
Eventually we raised the peep and managed to get it to face forward on its own volition but then I found that I couldn't see through the peep as the tunnel was now pointing down at an angle at full draw.
At this point I gave up for the day and retired to the rugby club bar.
Any ideas what is causing all this mucking about when the two bows should work exactly the same and what do we do to sort it out please ??
Karl