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    Fort Grard Guns and Archery in Weatherford 👍

    Randy (the owner) gave my bow a check up today and showed me step by step what was wrong with my setup. Mind you I had fixed blade broadheads and field points hitting together at 20 yards but the groups were inconsistent. I saw him set up a bow and watched him set the center shot and nocking point with 3 different bubble levels on the string, riser, and arrow, d loop, sight, peep, and dynamically time the arrow rest on a draw board and knew my bow wasn't set up that way. Needless to say, my d loop was installed too low, which meant the rest had to be bottomed out to line up with the d loop, and caused the rest to hit the arrow shelf on the riser. The sight was maxed out all the way left and the arrow rest was out of time. It came up to full draw 3/8" before the limb stop ever hit the limb (Mathews Helim) and by pulling it to full draw it was forcing the cable to advance the cam and I never knew it because the cam appeared to be "in time" statically before the bow was drawn (the cable ran right through the center of the timing hole on the cam). He set the center shot and a level nocking point, tied a new d loop, moved and tied in the peep (based on my height so he never saw me draw the bow before he positioned it) then he replaced the cord on the rest and dynamically timed it with the draw board. When he did that it pulled the peep perfectly straight. The bow shot bullet holes immediately (by Randy and by me) and the peep was in perfect position without any twist or adjustment needed. The groups immediately tightened and just felt right. All I can say is give credit to whom credit is due and Randy and his son Ben know their way around a bow. They didn't "eyeball" anything and their work is very precise. They don't just fix it, they show you what's wrong and how to fix it. There's a lot of people that learn how to work on their own equipment because there aren't a lot of shops that set up or work on bows this way and after seeing the difference it made, I would do the same thing if I couldn't find the same quality of workmanship from the shops around me. We drove 140 miles today and would gladly do it again and recommend anyone in need of a good tuner go see Randy at Fort Grard.
    Last edited by Jesus is Coming; 08-03-2018, 09:26 PM.

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    Good info. Thanks for sharing

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      #3
      I bought my Obsession Def Con 6 from him and I agree with everything you said. It took a while getting my bow set up, but he explained everything he was doing even though I knew most after owning my own shop for 10 years, but he was very good at talking to me and explain everything. After he set everything up, my first shot and many after that thru paper were perfect bullet holes and my Ramcats flew identical to my field points.

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        #4
        Great people at Fort Grard. Randy is top notch!

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          #5
          Mudslinger, you already knew how to do the things he did to my bow. I told Randy that I couldn't believe that anyone that knew how to set up a bow like that would do it any other way and I believe that's the case or they don't have the equipment to do so. Was it normal in the industry during the time you owned your shop for bows to be set up this way?
          Last edited by Jesus is Coming; 08-04-2018, 11:02 PM.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Jesus is Coming View Post
            Mudslinger, you already knew how to do the things he did to my bow. I told Randy that I couldn't believe that anyone that knew how to set up a bow like that would do it any other way and I believe that's the case or they don't have the equipment to do so. Was it normal in the industry during the time you owned your shop for bows to be set up this way?
            Sometimes, but bows were a lot different back in my day. Hatchet cams were the big then back then 89-99 so getting a bow tuned was not that hard. Drop away rests were just barely making a dent (Barner Inertia was the first) so fletching clearance was the big thing back then. Yes I saw some set ups that made me wonder how they even shot an arrow.

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              #7
              Randy Grard is an amazing man and very knowledgeable and a pleasure to learn from

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