My friend wanted to start bow hunting and never came to me for suggestions. He listened to someone in the store that wanted to get rid of a new, cheap Bear compound. This one has the round cams with slots for the string to change drew length which drastically changes string length and bow weight. These things went out with the Dodo bird! It was supposed to be max at 30". In the center slot it pulled over 31". I checked the longest slot and got over 32". Setting it at the shortest still showed over 30". The bow is marked 55# and now weighs 48# with the limbs locked down tight. I had to reduce it a little more to adjust the tiller.
Another thing I noticed was the servings on the sting spread out from the cams and from the nock locks, a very cheap string. It must have stretched a lot too from the few shots taken.
He has the two prong rest which I set for a centered shaft.
Trying to tune it shows a high right tear. I moved the nock down in very small increments until the arrow was pointing up at 30 degrees, then went the other way until the shaft was pointing down 30 degrees. I adjusted the tiller, the rest pressure, bow weight (except I can't turn it up past 48#.) and position in and out every which way without a single change in the high right tear except to make it worse. This was with 2413 (if I remember) shafts cut to length.
He also had new carbon shafts spined for 40 to 60#. I did not want to cut them down until trying them so I left them full length. Good thing I did because the high right tear was still there. This shaft can't be tuned either. The only thing I can figure is I am getting a verticle nock movement or the limbs are so far out of weight match nothing can be done. I then checked the cam rollover and it is as perfect as it can be. There is no adjustment anyway unless a cable is changed.I gave up and had him get sight settings. It is shooting OK even with broadheads but is very slow. The gap between his 10 and 20 yd pins is a lot.
It seems as if Bear has never advanced and can't make a bow any better then when compounds first came out. Why they continue to make junk is beyond me. Maybe their high end bows are OK, but I won't buy one. They do a great disservice to the beginning archer selling stuff that can't be tuned. The beginner will never improve his shooting with these bows and should buy a good bow to start with.
My suggestion for the beginner is to buy the best you can and don't think about changing to a better bow later, it doesn't work that way.