ORIGINAL: Rick James
Yepper, it's important in any scenario where you are shooting on severe up and downhill angles. Out of a treestand is critical, because nearly every shot will be on a hard angle.
Here's a picture of me from this past weekend @ full draw on a 43 yard bedded buck on a sharp angle downhill.........an improperly adjusted 3rd axis could easily throw this arrow way out of the 10 ring, and that's not nearly as hard of an angle as a treestand could produce. I use a Medicine Stone jig for setting my third axis along with a HTM string attachable level.
Yes we shoot out of deerstands for hunting and 3rd axis is important but most bows are fairly close with just the 2nd axis to kill a deer efficiently.
When shooting targets we try to hit a very small spot so therefore,that is why I state it is much more important for target shooters than hunters.
Rick,have you ever checked your 3rd axis to see if it is square with the arrow?
I never realized how important it was untill I was told about it by a world class tuner and then tried it and was amazed the difference it made.Of course mine was set square with the bar and the bar wasn't parrallel with the arrow.Not out much but enough to make a difference.
The EZE EYE laser would probably work well for checking to see if the vbar and arrow are parrallel.Just lay it on the bar and run it down the arrow.