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[nine7114]

Hello everyone,

I received my TAC 15i a couple days ago and been testing it out.
I noticed that when I crank my crossbow to about half way towards a full draw,
(when the draw cord with the string is past about half way point on the rail),
there would be a noticeable "clank" sound and then it continues on ward normally.

I was curious as to if this is normal. From the videos I saw when people are drawing,
their TAC 15s is either silent or only with the normal clicking sound depending on
whether the pin is pushed down or not.

So I'm wondering, mine makes a clank at about half draw: is it going to be a problem?

[pacrossbow_]

nine7114, on 27 November 2011 - 01:56 AM, said:

Hello everyone,

I received my TAC 15i a couple days ago and been testing it out.
I noticed that when I crank my crossbow to about half way towards a full draw,
(when the draw cord with the string is past about half way point on the rail),
there would be a noticeable "clank" sound and then it continues on ward normally.

I was curious as to if this is normal. From the videos I saw when people are drawing,
their TAC 15s is either silent or only with the normal clicking sound depending on
whether the pin is pushed down or not.

So I'm wondering, mine makes a clank at about half draw: is it going to be a problem?

Pull the draw cord all the way out, then push the cord to the left when you start to crank.  It should clear it up.  

Mine was actually popping the arrow off about a third of the way there.  Mine went away on its own (I guess the draw cord wrapped itseld correctly on its own), but Super 91 posted a video about this on youtube.

Video Link

Quote from below video: "This is what happens when your cocking rope is rolled up wrong on the PSE TAC-15. All you need to do to correct this is to pull the rope all the way out, hold it out to the left side and crank it back in. Do this several times and you should not have any more problems."

Edited by pacrossbow_, 27 November 2011 - 10:21 AM.

[nine7114]

Thanks! I tried that and a couple times and after a few more draws the clank went away.

Now I just have to figure out why it is shooting to the left of where i am aiming at only a couple feet away.

[xbow755]

nine7114, on 27 November 2011 - 04:35 PM, said:

Thanks! I tried that and a couple times and after a few more draws the clank went away.

Now I just have to figure out why it is shooting to the left of where i am aiming at only a couple feet away.

Hi nine7114,
Have you followed the manufacturers instructions for "paper tuning" your TAC 15/15i yet?  If not, I would recommend reading the many threads that talk about properly squaring and aligning everything on your crossbow and then follow that with a good paper tuning exercise.  Once that's been done we can provide additional help depending upon what's happening.  There are no substitutes for properly completing all the basics on this crossbow.

These xbows stand by themselves as the most accurate shooting crossbows in the world once they've been tuned properly, but they can also be your worst nightmare unless you perform the necessary due diligence to align everything in the correct manner. Between this forum and the longrangehunting.com forum you will find the most knowledgeable people in the country about how to do almost anything on these crossbows, but you must read and implement what you learn if you want to get yours to really perform.

Welcome to the club!

Regards,

Xbow755