New Bow - Some Questions

[MikeD]

My new (2nd hand) bow arrived yesterday. A Winact riser with Win & Win wood-cored limbs at 30lb. I was delighted to find that the previous owner had never used the bow at all!

I managed to decipher the Korean English and set the weight adjustment to give the maximum and then adjust the tiller, but I'm not sure about limb alignment. With a long rod on I'm aligning the string with the two limb pocket bolts and the long rod and then checking to see that the string runs along the centre of both limbs. Is that it? My previous bow is one-piece...

With the bow, I got 12 Easton Lightspeeed arrows with 3D screw in points. They are way too long. I've never had carbon arrows before and at the moment I'm in two minds, whether to get them shortened, or to just put them on Ebay. Am I right in thinking they are not a good idea for indoor shoooting (even after getting them shortened and proper points). Hopefully by next spring I will be back up to 36 or 38lb and these arrows will not be stiff enough.

That'll do for now. I'm sure I'll have more questions later...

[radsbow]

Personally I would not worry too much about the string being aligned with the longrod - mine does not align.#But certainly#align the string#with the limb bolts and a couple of central marks on the limbs.</p>

Place a bit of tape about 25mm from the end of the riser pocket, on the limb (the side facing you as you hold the bow)#and mark the center of the limb on the tape. Do the same with the other limb.</p>

Stand the bow up, by leaning the top limb tip against something (basically trying not to distort the limbs from the side). Now stand back and look at the string - It should follow the#line through the marks that you put on the tape (top and bottom), and through both bolts on the riser (top and bottom).</p>

[joetapley]

Ah! a new toy to play with.
As Radsbow said line up (for me two) marks on each limb, limb bolts and end of longrod. Disagree about not bothering with the long rod. Because of parallax the end of the rod is the most sensitive to positioning. On the other hand if the the long rod itself is not straight and doesn't line up with everything else (bent rod, bolts or even worse the bushing) then the bows going to kick oddly during the shot and have you scratching your head about the resulting left or right arrow tendancy.

[MikeD]

Thanks, I'll get that sorted tonight, ready for shooting tomorrow.

[morphymick]

Mike, Ive posted a reply to your post on Saggi, with a link to a useful limb alignment set-up.

If you read the Saggi post first, then ignore this one.

Mick