Bob covered it well. The hickory bow can be shot just as accurately, you will just have to be more selective of arrow spine. The arrow will recover from the paradox and fly straight.

Bare shaft tuning will generally show heavier than the actual spine you need, especially with bows cut past center. For instance, if you bare-shaft a 65#bow with the riser cut past center, it's liable to show you need arrows spined in the 100# plus range, when you can get"bullet holes" through paper with fletched arrows that spine 75-85#. I like a combination of bare-shafting, then paper tuning with fletched arrows.

Chad