RE: Importance of bare shaft tuning?
Id expect this question on the traditional board , thats where bareshaft belongs . I found this out the hard expensive way , by useing it myself many years ago in the futal attempt for the "perfect tune" , what I found was going against what easton sugests , and trying to tune a compound bow while shooting a release was , some bows [ mostly those whith little cabelrod toqure] can be bareshaft tuned , while with other compound bows its imposable and it does ruin arrows with the energy a compound puts into the arrow and a sideways stop into the target .
Im a bowhunter , my method of tuneing has been narrowed down to broadhead tuneing , Im not shooting at an animal without fletching , or with fieldtips , or thur paper , so those methods of tuning are useless to me .
For a target bow , I would probably paper tune at various distances , trying for a high right tare up close evening out to a bullet hole at arround 10 yards or so , that is the way feild tiped arrows fly best out of most of the bows I have shot them from , depending on cabelrod toqure , hand toqure , and vertical nock travel , which vary from bow to bow ,the best tune may or maynot be with your fieldtips and broadhead equiped arros hitting the same spot .
Bows of late have been getting better with nock travel , darton and alpines new offering seem to be outstanding . The reason I mention that is a bow with bad nock travel will play havoc with you caseing any kind of tune . Thats why the splitcabel/4 cabel bows are so easy to tune