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Old 03-02-2007 | 01:50 PM
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Default RE: Importance of bare shaft tuning?

I place everything on the line with bareshaft tuning. However I will place great emphasis on bow tuning, BEFORE I even try to set the rest, I will shoot in a string, even the high quality ones will need to settle.

After the string is shot in I will obtain the proper specs for my bow. I shoot hoyt now but used to run my mathews through the gauntlet also before setting up. The information that I use is on the tune charts. All hybrid cams can be set up in the same manner in which I do it.

If a bow has a static yoke and not a floating yoke, I will find out what the cam lean should be. Some of my older mathews needed to lean. Mathews support would help me with this,

After the bow is set to spec, with mine it would be no cam lean, the roll over timing set as well as cam syncronization. I am now ready to start,

At this point I will then set my arrowto bisect the burger hole directly with a perfect 90 degree angleto the string.

I will set the center shot to fall at 3/4's of an inch from the riser and find that I will end up with 1/32 nd of an inch from that mark.

I work the numbers for my arrow through on target software so that it matches my bow to a tee. I can mess with my FOC length and such without having to ever build an arrow..

Bareshafting should never result in the arrow hitting at an extreme angle. If you cant get it out with the rest and the arrows are spined correctly, there may be a problem with cam lean issues. I fought my LX for a long time before figuring that out. I will make very minor adjustments to my rest if needed, but more times than not, my bare shafts are already hitting with my fletched arrows.

On a bow there is much more than adjusting the rest to get the bow in tune.



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