hey guys and girls, hope im in the right place and following the proper procedure. I recently decided I wanted to get into bow hunting and archery. I purchased a Martin Cheetah bow. The draw weight is set @ 70 pounds, which is fine for me( 6'1 275lbs). 29" draw, I'm using Easton 2219 arrows with 128 grain field points for practice, with a Cobra release, I tried a thumb release first. The problem is as follows: whenever I shoot the arrow always is low and to the left, ive adjusted my pin, however the arrow always impacts @ a 45 degree angle with the shaft pointing to the right as such "/" ive adjusted my pins, my rest, even my draw weight, nothing fixes the problem. I know im not shooting too light of an arrow, also it tears the fletching on my arrows, im lucky if i get 6 or 7 shots out of an arrow, I think its my rest though, I have an "NAP Quicktune", anyone else shooting this rest have a problem with it? ive had my brother who shoots a fred bear element @ 70 lbs watch me and he says im doing everything right, anchoring at the same spot everytime, not torquing the bow, or anything. I can pick up his bow and stack 4 (2219) arrows in the same circle no problem so I know the problem is with my bow. We have no pro archery shops close to us so im about @ my wits end and fixing to give up on archery and go back to firearms. LOL any ideas guys and girls? is it something im doing wrong or is something outta whack on my bow?
update, found out the plastic arrow rest was broken, little cheap piece of crap. the rest will be replaced pronto with a whisker biscuit. however that does not fix the arrows being off.
It sounds to me like you are getting significant fletching contact. Have you tuned your rig, starting with finding your center-shot? Any contact the fletching has with your rest is going to cause inconsistency in accuracy. It may be as simple as rotating your nocks. What Quicktune model do you have? (freedom, 360, 1000, 2000....)
I have the Quicktune 360. i watched the video last night of finding center shot, ill watch it again but right now its raining so looks like no shooting today. plus cant get the broken plastic arrow rest off the quicktune to put a new one on it.
