Poundage Adjustment - Compound Bow Setup Part 5
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Former GB compound archery team member Liam Grimwood shows how he adjusts the poundage on his compound bow to suit his shooting style.
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During this chapter we're going to talk about poundage adjustment and tiller setting.
Now my advice to anyone in the beginning would be to set the tiller even. Now what I mean by this
is that you have both limb bolts wound down the same amount. Now a good starting point to do this
would be to wind the limb bolts all the way in and then wind them out gradually and equally
and then wind them out to your desired poundage. So the way to do this is on this particular bow
you've actually got limb pocket lock-in screws which a lot of the new modern bows have. So
you need to take an allen wrench first and undo the lock-in screws so that we know that our limbs
are set right in the first place. They should factory come wound all the way in but I'm just
going to check that to make sure. Yep they're wound all the way in. So now what you're going to
do is you're going to take some scales and we're going to weigh the bow. Okay so currently this is
at 64 pound which is a little bit heavier than I'd like my bow to be as I normally shoot it around 59.
So the rule generally with this is that one turn equals three pounds. So I'm going to wind my bow
out one full turn to begin with and use that as a starting point. I'm now going to weigh the bow
again to see what the weight is. Okay so it's now at 60 pound so I'm just going to take a little bit
more off to get that pound. I'm going to take both limbs out half a turn again. I'm going to weigh it
again. It's now weighing up at 59 pound which is exactly where I want it. So that's perfect. All
you've got to do now is tighten the limb pocket locking bolts back up again and it's ready to
shoot. Also one thing to remember is that it's great to start as a starting point to use the
tiller set even as we have here but later on when you're trying to get the bow to hold slightly
differently you can adjust the limbs independently to affect how the bow holds on the target.
However you've got to remember that when adjusting them unless you adjust them
equally it will also move the knocking point which can detune your bow.