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02-13-2006 | 03:12 PM

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MilDotMaster

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RE: Higher FOC percentages masking tuning problems

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ORIGINAL: newman1

Actually i do.You said somewhere that you are shooting 3" groups at 60 yards or something like that.You obviously can shoot and have good form to achieve this,BUTi would think that in order to fully recognize any gain or loss in accuracy at long range while making these "very small movements" you would have to be using a Hooter Shooter.I can't imagine that you could duplicate the consistancy that a machine can.In terms i know you understand,just like when shooting for accuracy with a rifle there is no way you could hold the rifle steady enough to determine very much,which is why you use a bench.

Same concept

Actually with long range rifle shooting I had my best accuracy in the prone position with a sling and bicep strap. The closest thing to that was a bench only if I had both front and rear of rifle supported. Shooting tight groups with rifle at 600 yards then go and slightly change one thing in your load development or OAL of bullet in brass and you will see the results right away. I never used a machine for testing my loads with that, so I don’t have the desire to try a machine with this. With this silly little bow, I have found that if you know you made a good shot, but the arrow doesn’t hit where you were aiming then you have some more work to do. The accuracy at 60 yards just shows up when you find that sweet spot. The thing that is going to drive me nuts is to have the bow in a sweet spot then have my arrow spine start slowly changing during normal use and throwing the accuracy off. At that point I will probably either start buying 3 dozen matched spine arrows at a time or just throw in the white towel.

As far as your comments about making small adjustments and seeing the results I don't do it that way. I make the small adjustments at a time until the accuracy goes away. Then I go the opposite direction with whatever I'm playing with until the accuracy goes away. That is how I find the range of the sweet spot. After that I just center it up.This way I know I'm not right on the edge of poor tune or poor accuracy.

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For the rest of you good advice and yes I will just go shoot it and try not to think about the details, but it's hard because I like this stuff. Just think how much better we can all shoot if we were all getting the most out of our equipment.

Just to drive you all nuts with more questions, here is another:

Is it possible that an arrow spine can have 2 sweet spots without changing anything but the tip weight. Meaning it will shoot great at a stiffer spine with 85 grain tip, then install a 100 grain tip and the accuracy drops off-line, then install a 125 grain tip and get the same accuracy back again? Think about that one for fun.

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