Hoyt Pro Defiant coming out of tune

[Zac]

I have a Hoyt Pro Defiant 34. It is the aluminum riser, set at 80lbs with 30 inch draw, with 75% mods. I typically put about 300-400 arrows out of it per week. I get random paper tears every week, and every time I take it to the shop they tell me the timing if off? Has anyone else had similar problems? Also wound dropping the poundage off help with this?

 

[OR Archer]

Well if you’re running the stock strings it’s time to change them. That’s a lot of arrows on a set of strings, especially a higher poundage bow. A good set of strings will solve your issues more than likely

 

[MattB]

Have you marked the cams or drawn the bow standing next to a mirror and actually checked? Seems unlikely. This presumes that your shop understands the difference between timing and synch.

Why are you shooting paper every week? How are your BH's shooting?

 

[Zac]

I have America's Best strings on for about a month. Haven't put fixed blades through it yet, but will soon once weather gets nicer, I'm unsure of the difference between timing and synch myself. I don't know why I shoot paper so much, I usually feel compelled to I guess to make sure I'm shooting straight.

 

[MattB]

It could be as simple as hand position or vane contact. Do you get repeatable tears every time you shoot paper to confirm it is the bow and not you?

 

[Desk Jockey]

Following. My pro defiant 34 seems to have an issue holding sync. I just had my bow shop do a post season tune and it was out of whack.

 

[RosinBag]

ABB strings are good, but the maker isn’t as important as the material. If you are not shooting BCY 452x at a minimum with that poundage, I could see your cables taking a beating at that volume of arrows.

As far as timing and sync on a Hoyt, they are the same, so I wouldn’t get worked up over that.

Lastly with paper, have you mocked tunes every arrow to get the exact same bullet hole or the acceptable rear you want? If not, you are spinning your wheels shooting paper with random arrows. At 80 pounds and little holding weight it doesn’t take much to apply torque or face contact to get a bad tear.

Get the cams times the way you want, mark them with a silver sharpie and watch them to see if they move. If they continually move, get new strings and cables. BCY 452x, BCY Magnum or the Ghost XV are the three most stable materials made at the moment.

 

[fatlander]

Get a set of strings from a reputable builder like JBK, hoggwire, twisted-x, buckslayer, catfish customs, rogue, park-n-sons . . . Mass produced strings suck, plain and simple.


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[RosinBag]

Top of the line bows from most manufacturers come with very good strings. The Hoyts have BCY X for the material, which is good, but not great.

 

[Zac]

Thanks for all the advice I will look into the string material issue.