| Some shooters have made the statement that you can never get a single
cam bow to shoot as well as a two-cam bow that is in proper tune. They
back this up by saying that you can tweak nock travel (arrow flight) by
how you alter the synchronization of the cams.
This type of adjustment is accomplished on a two-cam bow by having one
cam timed to reach full draw before the other. While it is true that this
will affect arrow flight, the results are not always desirable. Go too
far one way and you can kick the arrow into the rest causing erratic flight
and a very difficult situation to tune. Go the other way and you might
miss the sweet spot and have to settle for something less than optimum
arrow flight, spending a lot more time tuning than you expected.
Playing
with cam synchronization mainly affects the first 2 inches of nock travel
and that is the most critical part of the power stroke. With single cam
bows this is not an issue and that is one reason they have been so universally
accepted.
Another potential problem that occurs when adjusting cam synchronization
is that you can affect the feel of the bow when you reach the end of the
draw stroke. One draw stop will hit a power cable before the other creating
a condition that can feel like a soft stop before you hit the wall. This
can't happen with a single cam bow.
The Darton C/P/S
offers the best of both worlds without any of the problems of a two-cam
bow. So if you are one of those individuals who likes to add that personal
touch to your equipment the C/P/S is for you. If you follow the tuning
instructions supplied with each DARTON bow you will have straight, level
nock travel. Now here is where you can get involved;
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Shorten the Control Cable by twisting it 2-3 turns at a time and
you change the path of the nock to where it travels in a straight
downward slope when released.
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Lengthen the Control Cable by taking 2-3 twists out and you change
the path of the nock to where it travels in a straight upward slope when
released.
By tuning your nock travel in this manner you are not causing anything
erratic to happen any where in the power stroke and it allows you one more
way to fine tune your bow to match your equipment. We do feel that most
of the time you will end up back at the original factory settings.
For more on: The
Darton C/P/S System |