Bowtech Admiral penetration problems? HELP!

[ice-pick]

I have had my Bowtech Admiral for about two years. I got it brand new. I have taken 6 shots at deer this season all about 20 yards out. I have made contact with 5 deer and only killed one. I'm wondering if there could be a a problem with my bow. All arrows were CE 350 shafts. It is a 60-70# bow. I have it set on the low end at about 62-63#.

#1 shoulder hit - Grim Reaper razor tip no penetration
#2 arm hit - Exodus - shattered the arrow
#3 single lung pass through - CE Quad Pro - buck didn't go down
#4 miss low - Exodus
#5 perfect behind the shoulder shot - CE Quad Pro - 1-2" penetration BH snapped off - doe lived
#6 lung/heart hit - Dead Ringer Rampage 3 blade - only about 6 inch penetration KILL SHOT

Don't want to make this a BH discussion. Just want to know what might be wrong with my bow.

[150class]

Defiently probably going to turn into a broadhead discussion

Love my admiral, pass throughs on pass throughs on pass throughs......

shooting at 70 lbs on mine

[Csmith52779]

I tuning issue and shot placement bud.

[hogdaddy]

1 bone not good
2 bone not good
3 single lung & what?
4 not good
5 got nothing
6 heart lung good.


half the shots not good, 2 suspect. 1 congrats on the deer.

its not the poundage, probably a lack of proper tune up, arrow flying sideways.
good luck sorting it out.

[boh347]

Paper/walk back tune

[ice-pick]

Yeah, my good friend has an Admiral. That's why I have an Admiral now. I got my first hog with his bow and I was hooked. He's running his around 68# and everything he's shot has a pass through.

Arrows are flying straight while target shooting at the same distances. Groups of 1-2" depending on the day.

Might be proper tuning with BH.

[Daniel75]

That bow isn't tuned properly is my guess.

Which Carbon Express arrows do you have?

[Csmith52779]

You need to bh tune. That will get your arrows flying straight. Anything fp will give the illusion if good arrow flight if your centershot. But when you bh tune that's when you see what the arrow is actually doing. I shoot 58-60 pounds and get pass thrus 93% percent of the time. Your poundage is fine.

[WKH2213]

Not sure where you're located, but I'd tune it for you for free.
I shoot an Admiral at 72lbs and have figured out the tuning on these bows.
I've even got a brand new set of Wicked 1 strings we could slap on if there's an issue.

[Mudslinger]

Operator error. Tune the bow, arrows and broadheads and study the correct shot placement. Practice, practice and practice until you have a high level of confidence in yourself and your ability to use your equipment to the best of your ability. Everything in your equipment have to work like a well oiled machine and you have to have the confidence in that machine and your ability to use that machine. Anything missing out of this equation or if there is any doubt in any of it and you are putting yourself at a lot bigger disadvantage that what you start with by using archery equipment. With the confidence in the equipment and your ability to use that equipment you are out there just asking for a shot because you know you can make a killing shot if given the opportunity. Any doubts in any of it and the likelihood of a miss or non lethal hit comes into play big time! Good luck.

[JW]

I could have a field day with this one.




But I will say that bow is not tuned.

[txdukklr]

I could have a field day with this one.




But I will say that bow is not tuned.

yup

i had an admiral was my last bowtech before i moved to mathews.

It killed piles of animals and was faster then any mathews I've shot since the z7. it's a killer and candidly took me a 1/4 of the time to tune compared to the single cams of the mathews.

Tuning is something you can fix.

Shot placement is something you need to fix

[ice-pick]

Yeah, the Bowtech shop is kind of far away and has crappy customer service. Just discovered the Mathews shop nearer to my house and super service - even on my Bowtech. I wouldn't have guessed that the Mathews would take longer to tune.

All good points and suggestions. Still more work to be done to take it to the next level.

Thanks!

[Csmith52779]

You yourself are very capable of tuning the bow yourself if you have room to shoot. Look up the Easton broadhead tuning chart and follow it and it will fix your tuning problem unless your cams are out of sync.

[WKH2213]

Also, make sure the cams both hit the stops at the same time.
The back wall will be rock solid if they do. If not, if will feel spongy