The first few shots I made with my new Beman ICS 400's was through paper at about 1-2 foot away. I was really surprised to see that they seemed to make almost perfect bullet holes right away. So surprised in fact that I kept doubting it. It just didn't seem possible that they were already "in tune" since I didn't do anything to my bow. I tried shooting through the paper from several distances and only one arrow seemed to be getting a slight right tear which I attributed to possible fletch contact. Did the same test with broadheads and received similar results. Needless to say I was quite relieved to find them flying well.

I dialed in my sight and got very good groupings. However, I felt that I should try one more tuning experiment. I shot the arrows from about 12 yards across a horizontal line. I found that I couldn't keep them perfectly horizontal so I adjusted my nock point by lowering my rest a little bit. The horizontal became very tight after that. Next I shot a vertical line and found it to be near perfect. Does anybody else tune this way? This is the first time I ever tried this method.

After the last test, I reset my sights and got even tighter groupings. At this point I think I can stop tinkering and start trying to shoot better.

That is basically the question I wanted to pose to you all. At what point do YOU stop messing around with or blaming a bad shot on tuning and focus on just shooting?

-Mike