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  1. bowhunter628

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    Hey guys, I'm wondering if increasing my draw weight by a few pounds will help with a slight peep rotation that I'm having. I put on a new set of 60x strings and cables around February and I'm thinking that with the amount of shooting I have been doing preparing for the season, I have gotten a little bit of stretch in my string. My thought process is to add a bit more tension into the string to reduce the slack that had built up from stretching. I have roughly 6 extra pounds left before I'm maxed out but I'm worried that by increasing the draw I may encounter problems with timing issues (double wall mainly). Any thoughts?


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    Won't do anything.

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    Try waxing the snot out of your strings and pushing the wax thru the strands.

    Then keep over twisting your peep in the direction you need it. Eventually the strings get influenced and will hold. Been doing this for 25 years and never let me down.


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  5. Walton Webster

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    Why don't the new bows use the rubber hose attached to peep sight? Simple and effective.
     
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    Personally I hate those rubber tubes. Can't get past a rubber band under tension pointed right at my eyeball. I'm shooting a new string and my peep was turned a bit when I got the bow back. Shot it about 300 times and took it back to the bow shop. They checked to see that it was still in time (which it was) and corrected the peep with a half twist of the string. No problemo since then.
     
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    I would agree a half twist should take care of it or the way Mikey suggested. The rubber tube will work, but as JGD mentioned, it'll hurt if it comes back towards your face. the rubber tube is just a way for you to spend a couple extra bucks on something that shouldn't be broke in the first place.
     
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  8. Walton Webster

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    You do bring up something I've never thought about with the tube being pointed at your eye.
     
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    Correcting peep rotation is best done by twisting or untwisting the string.
     
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    I've been hit in the eye by that rubber tubing, bloodied my eye up and I was afraid I had lost it for a while. I still use them but lesson learned, change em every year!
     
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    - Dangerous to your vision.
    - Break/wear out.
    - Gets caught on brush/etc.
    - Noisy.
    - NOT needed with today's quality string materials and a press/little knowhow.
     
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