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Old 11-03-08, 09:50 PM
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Riser: Hoyt Nexus
Limbs: KG APEX 66x40lb
Sight: Arten Olympic
Stabilisers: Arten custom carbons
Button: BEITER
Bow String: 20str 452x - Bieter nock
Arrows: ACE's -X10's

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if your arrows did indeed tune at 45/46lb coming down to 38 lb almost certainly dictates that you'll need another set of arrows DEPENDENT on how you wish to tune!
Tuning by walkback alone you might get away with just slacking off the spring in the button as I said before.
It would seem there is some underlying factor as to why you are dropping your poundage 8lbs...injury perhaps?....in which case I personally wouldn't want to cough up for a new set of arrows for a temporary situation....I'd shoot on a bad tune until full fitness returns.

If 38 lbs is to be your final drawweight, by all means buy the spine for 38lbs. But if you don't know yet where you're going to end up...thats up to you

Shooting an arrow that really spined well 8lbs above this is likely to cause all sorts of problems with clearance and maybe grouping and be unforgiving on your technique. Again you cant get an 8lb range out the the same arrow specs- not tuning 'properly'...in fact to even try to compensate for this kind of mismatch you are possibly going to have a 'peculiar' centershot position and a nearly bottoming out button.

No, adding a house brick to your pointweight isn't going to compensate viably, you'll need new arrows to tune 'properly'
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