String Suppressor problems

[Jaypo]

Guys:

I had a Bear string suppressor button on my bow for the last 3 years (it came with it, and was attached to the cable slide). My bow has been very hard to tune, and I think the suppressor was the problem. Recently, while shooting, I noticed the side of the button was ripped from the string hitting the left side of it. So I took it off and replaced it with a Cabelas S3 suppressor. Instead of a button, it has a U shaped rubber piece that catches the string. When the string hits it perfectly, my arrows are like darts. No wobble at all. However, the majority of the time, the string winds up on the outside of the suppressor. When it does, the arrow does wobble.

Does anyone have any tips on how to fix this? Do you think that pressing the suppressor a little more against the string would help?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[DocHolladay]

I would start looking at your cams to see if there is any cam lean. It sounds like your cams are leaning causing your string to not hit dead center of the string stop. Of course, it could be that the hole for the string suppressor is off center. I would look into Norway Industries String Tamer or the STS system. With either, you can turn it slightly so that the string hits it dead center and doesnt come off. You also need to make sure that your string isnt tight up against the string stop. It needs to be 1/16 of an inch off of the stop. Be sure to serve the area of your string where it hits the silencer. It doesnt have to be done, but it saves your string in the long run.

[Jaypo]

Thanks, Doc. I'll back it off 1/16" from the string. I have it up against it now. I experimented with it this weekend, but nothing worked perfect. I'll try it with the string slightly off of the button. Thanks!

[DocHolladay]

Any news??

[Jaypo]

Well, I experimented with all types of adjustments on the suppressor and nothing worked. So after I got back from the ranch Sunday, I shot a couple of times. Just for spits and giggles, I took the top bar off of my QAD drop away rest (that contains the arrow), and low and behold, I'm now shooting perfectly straight! I examined the bar, and there are marks all over it, even though I had twisted my arrows to get the fletching to shoot thru the side of the bar. Well, I guess I will have to sacrifice containment for straight shooting!

Any suggestions on how to still keep the containment bar and shoot straight???

[DocHolladay]

Tuning shouldnt be to hard... no matter what bow. Are you paper tuning or walk back tuning???

[Jaypo]

I've done both. However, even when I've tuned it both ways, I've still noticed wobble. I'm sure I don't have the best form, but I was getting vane contact with that bar, and now that it has been removed, it shoots perfectly.

[DocHolladay]

C0ck vane up or down??? I am hoping that you will say down.... but since you are saying that you are getting vane contact, I am assuming that you have c0ck vane up.... yes?

[Jaypo]

I shoot it with the vane up as per QAD's instructions. I have, however, shot a bunch with the cock vane down and got the same results. When I started trying to fix the problem last year, I shot a bunch with the vanes up and down, and it shot better with the vane up, so I've been doing that. I put the bar as far to the side as I could with it still able to contain the arrow and twisted my nock to allow the cock vane to shoot thru that small gap. But the problem was still there until I took the bar off. After I took the bar off, I shot about 12 more times, and each one was perfectly straight.

[DocHolladay]

Can you take a pic of the rest in the raised position and an arrow nocked? This would help me a little. If we cant fix it here by looking and trouble shooting, I would contact QAD.