creeping limpsavers on hoyts

[joel]

hey i recently purchased a hoty protec and my top limb saver keeps creeping up the limbs to the point where it actually rubs on the string do any other hoyt shooters have this problem? and is it fixable.

cheers:thumb:

[2Dogs]

All the Hoyts do it.

And no you can't stop it.

[Jean Lafitte]

You can rip those goddamn rubber bits off.

[alexvpaq]

super glue?:confused:

[arngeir]

how is it to shoot whith them on.
if it feel ok then drop them

[Progen]

All the Hoyts do it.

And no you can't stop it.

:iamwithstupid:

Yeah, happens to every Hoyt compound bow here too. Some folks put TWO limbsavers on each set of limbs to prevent this. Wonder how much speed loss there is though.

[alexvpaq]

anyone tryed to glue it or wrap it with duct tape?:confused:

[Progen]

Glue didn't work for those guys and too strong a glue might just toughen them up and cause the limbs to move funny. Duct tape has the same effect too.

[Brad]

Once they start they will not stop moving as the rubber wears.

I emailed Sims and they sent me a new pair, as well as some of the double sided sticky that the use on the solid limb limb savers. Once you put the new ones on with the sticky they won't move.

Good luck

[Mervwho]

One of the Mid Week retiree's tried a little experiment with his using the chronograph and found that they can cost you 5 to 8 fps when removed, so he glued them on, they still moved so now he uses double sided tape. I think that eventually they will again move with the vibration.

[ninevalleys]

im assuming these are alpha shox?, everyone who shoots hoyt up here (used to include myself as well) had moving shox to fix this get some masking tape and wrap it aroudn the limb to the top and bottom of the shox (on the limbs not the actual shox) keep wrapping until its abotu 3-4mm thick. this has worked brilliantly for everyone, and has very little effect to speed performances.

cheers NV

[robbo]

Make sure the limbs are very clean, before you replace the Alpha shocks.

[joel]

no worries the double sided tape and masking tape sound like good idears ill give em a go and get back to yas

[Jean Lafitte]

No, rip them off!

[gazzwah]

been shooting a hoyt ultramag for fifteen months three times a week and no movement so i can honestly say that not all hoyts do it................. how ever your limb savers are so i would lash out and spent the $35.00 and buy a new pair....... then you won,t have any problems with glue affecting your lamination on your limbs....:thumb:

[Jean Lafitte]

Get your rubber off my bow you damned dirty ape!

[dbjac]

been shooting a hoyt ultramag for fifteen months three times a week and no movement so i can honestly say that not all hoyts do it................. how ever your limb savers are so i would lash out and spent the $35.00 and buy a new pair....... then you won,t have any problems with glue affecting your lamination on your limbs....:thumb:

Then after a couple of shots, he'll be in exactly the same situation.
either;
a) take them off.
b) tape them in (wouldnt use glue personally. doesnt work for long, i used all sorts of stuff on mine, still came lose)

[ninevalleys]

id have to disagree with you, the noise that comes from the hoyts without the alpha shox (or without any kind of limbsavers) is atrocious, there is even a difference between old and breaking shox, compared to brand new ones. hoyts do benifit from the alpha shox.

cheers NV

[Marcus]

I took off my limbsavers and much prefer the bow without it.
You don't feel it if you don't grip your bow. ;)

[Jean Lafitte]

id have to disagree with you, the noise that comes from the hoyts without the alpha shox (or without any kind of limbsavers) is atrocious, there is even a difference between old and breaking shox, compared to brand new ones. hoyts do benifit from the alpha shox.

cheers NV

Loud bows can almost always be tuned quiet, and then all the rubber you need is on your stabilizer.

[ninevalleys]

yeah it can be tuned quiet, but when it was already in great tune (had the NQ HPC take a good look at it) id rather haev had them in than take em out and have to retune a tuned bow...

[Marcus]

Something that can move and thus changed your groups or break and change your groups for some lame reason like 'feels nice' is not worth having on the bow.
I wuld rather a noisy bow that shoots 10's than a quiet one that could start to miss at any time.

[Jean Lafitte]

If you take them out when as soon as it falls into your grubby paws, like God intended, you wouldn't have to worry.

[Jean Lafitte]

Something that can move and thus changed your groups or break and change your groups for some lame reason like 'feels nice' is not worth having on the bow.
I wuld rather a noisy bow that shoots 10's than a quiet one that could start to miss at any time.

After ripping all the rubber off my bow (Except the doinker on the stab, which is the only useful rubber imo), I think it feels better.

[ninevalleys]

each to there own i guess, personally i prefer to keep them in, same with everyone up here in NQ. you can feel and hear a obvious difference without them in good or bad, no matter how well its tuned... if they come in teh bow free leave em in.

cheersNV

[Jean Lafitte]

Hoyt should pay me for the trouble it took to rip the limbsavers off.

I figure it's worth a soda or something.

[Jean Lafitte]

oh, or maybe a sandwich!

[ninevalleys]

dont you shoot recurve???

[Jean Lafitte]

I meant the risershox, but I stopped using limbsavers too.

[alexvpaq]

lol dumbarse
you should keep them just for the fun of having it:thumb:

[reversehaven]

damn. now we have another person with a rizershox to throw around at people. this could be the end of the world!........of warcraft.:confused:

hmm. honestly speaking, i don't really think vibration in a bow really affects the shot (apart from feeling AFTER your shot)

if i'm not wrong, the virbation really starts when your arrow has almost completely left the bow. perhaps with an inch or so left near the arrow rest. so i don't think it could affect your shot. maybe the feeling of your follow through MIGHT NOT be so nice.. but really if you let your bow fly out into the finger sling i don't think you'll really feel any vibration. my bow's hell of a noisy bow but i barely feel anything (by way of vibration from the riser)

this is my opinion. anyone care to offer a second opinion?

[John Kurzer]

The limbsavers fell off my Proelite the second weekend of shooting it. I replaced these with the Sims mushroom type. I have been shooting with them now for about 4 weeks and they have not moved at all. They are a little heavier, it made only a very minor difference to my sight settings.

[James Park]

I take them off just as soon as I get a new bow. As marcus noted, better to have a bow that is a bit noisier but shoots 10's than a bow that is likely to change suddenly (as I have seen - just ask Marcus about the Canberra shoot a few years ago).