Post by 2chucks2 on Apr 24, 2006 8:27:25 GMT -5
Eureka!!!!I think I have solved the crossbow inaccuracy issue! 
I could kick myself for not checking this sooner. The most basic issue any archer could have. Fletching clearance. DUH!!!! I noticed after shooting a buch of bolts that I had fletched with white feathers, that the c0ck feather which rides down in the rail was looking dirty along it's edge.
The last few inches of the rail is not as deep as the rest of the rail and because the last thing guiding the bolt brfore it leaves the bow is the rail. It makes sence that if the fletching was hitting the rail that accuracy would suffer.
I took a scissors and trimed the c0ck feathers on alll the alum and the carbon fiber arrows to elliminate the clearance problems
I shot better groups at 10 and 20 yards to the point where I could not shoot more than 1 arrow into any spot. I drew small dots, the size of a nickle on the target face and could hit them or at least be very close. I then backed up to 30 yards which until now was awfull. I used the same nickle sized spots to shoot at.
I thought I could safely shoot all the arrows into one spot but I soon found out that even at 30 yards it was shooting tight groups. After shooting arrow 2. I decided to shot at a diff. spot for arrow 3
Here is the group at 40 yards which up until now I was afraid to shot at because I was not sure I would even hit the target. The Scope comes with 5 horizontal crosshairs and if you set the main one at 20 yards, the next should work for 30 then 40 and so on. This was true for 20 and 30 but the 40 yard crosshair was shooting a little high, so I am guessing it is more like a 42 yard crosshair. I was shooting at a white dot that is 1 1/2 inches in diameter. At 40 yards I was shooting about a 2 inch group
Now that I have this thing shooting god with practice points, I can move on to broadheads.
I could kick myself for not checking this sooner. The most basic issue any archer could have. Fletching clearance. DUH!!!! I noticed after shooting a buch of bolts that I had fletched with white feathers, that the c0ck feather which rides down in the rail was looking dirty along it's edge.The last few inches of the rail is not as deep as the rest of the rail and because the last thing guiding the bolt brfore it leaves the bow is the rail. It makes sence that if the fletching was hitting the rail that accuracy would suffer.
I took a scissors and trimed the c0ck feathers on alll the alum and the carbon fiber arrows to elliminate the clearance problems
I shot better groups at 10 and 20 yards to the point where I could not shoot more than 1 arrow into any spot. I drew small dots, the size of a nickle on the target face and could hit them or at least be very close. I then backed up to 30 yards which until now was awfull. I used the same nickle sized spots to shoot at.
I thought I could safely shoot all the arrows into one spot but I soon found out that even at 30 yards it was shooting tight groups. After shooting arrow 2. I decided to shot at a diff. spot for arrow 3
Here is the group at 40 yards which up until now I was afraid to shot at because I was not sure I would even hit the target. The Scope comes with 5 horizontal crosshairs and if you set the main one at 20 yards, the next should work for 30 then 40 and so on. This was true for 20 and 30 but the 40 yard crosshair was shooting a little high, so I am guessing it is more like a 42 yard crosshair. I was shooting at a white dot that is 1 1/2 inches in diameter. At 40 yards I was shooting about a 2 inch group
Now that I have this thing shooting god with practice points, I can move on to broadheads.
It might just piss his off at you. Hahaha good to hear that it was a easy fix, good that you were shooting white fletchings.
