Thread: Bare shaft tuning

Originally Posted by Ground Control

OK ......
I’m no expert, but that setup is completely wrong .
My advice if you want it is this .

Take your sight off the bow , adjust your rest so that the center of the arrow is 13/16 off the riser .
Set your nock height at 90 degrees , you can play with the height as things progress, but start at 90 .
Then the real mission starts , because your shooting form now comes into play .
If you cant consistently shoot with the correct form you will chase your tail .
You need to blank bail shoot for a while then try paper tuning.

OK, so before i started the whole paper tune thing, i set the bow up out of the box the way you've just said to do, and shot for a couple weeks every day with it like that. it shot well with normal arrows and field tips, tight groups almost touching most of the time. always start at 10, then 20, then 30, then 40, then 50 each time making sure i have good form, correct grip, follow through etc till i get tired and can feel it getting sloppy so i stop for the day. its just since paper tuning and the bow has gone way out on the piss like that, it will shoot a bullet hole with a bare shaft and dead center with a fletched at about 3 yards i measured just now.
im having fun learning all this so im not stressing about it going all haywire its just a bit confusing when videos etc say "this is all you need to do to tune" but in saying that ill go back to the start again and see how i go.