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Old 12-27-2005 | 10:33 AM
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utm,

How is that drawlength now that you got it all changed? I can tell you one thing that did was slow your bow down a bit, but drawlength is much more important.

Ya got some good advice up above. You should be able to set your pins at 15 and 25 yards if that's what you want. Then just gap shoot for 20. That's how we do it most of the time.

By turning the bow down to 63# you should have lost about 15fps. Certainly not enough to make a big difference at short yardages such as 25 yards. It should almost be imperceptible, really. You should probably only see about a 2" drop from 20 to 25 yards.

We talked about this before when discussing drawlength. Accuracy is the real key to shooting. If you shoot better at a lower weight then by all means shoot it that way. You're fairly new to shooting so I will pass on some advice. Hunting season is a long way off. You don't need to be shooting out of a treestand right now. And you don't need to be worrying about broadhead flight either. Get yourself on the ground, set up your equipment, and work on shooting form. Once you get much better form and are really consistent with it you'll have learned more about tuning because you'll most likely be doing some along the way.

And if you want to get better and better then you also need to put the 3D target away and shoot at spot (bullseye) targets. Let's see, oh yeh, don't shoot 10 arrows at a time. Try shooting 3, concentrating on one shot at a time. Don't worry about group shooting. The only shot you can do anything about is the arrow in the bow. The one in the target is one you can't do anything about and the next one isn't there yet anyway.

Hope some of this helps.

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