ORIGINAL: davepjr71
First, I'm strictly a "hunter" and not a target shooter. However, wouldn't you want to be as accurate and have the best tuned possible when shooting at live game? I think that a tuned bow is more important in hunting. There is no such thing as "quick tuning" when it comes to getting a bow ready to kill an animal. Hitting a pie plate doesn't work for me. I've been hunting deer long enough to know that there is no such thing as a guarantee or easy shot and why complicate matters with a bow that is not dead nutz on and then wonder what happened after the deer is maimed or missed.
I Frenched tuned my bow and never had the need for BH tuning. They both hit in the same place. Could this vary from bow to bow? Sure it could. However, my buddy was having issues with hos bow and I had him check his bow using French tuning. After he did so his bow was dead on with BH's. This tuning method works plan and simple and is faster than walk back,paper, or BH tuning. You immediately find out if your bow is off both vertically and horizontally.
PA,
I agree with you. However, the method wasn't developed by the French. lmao
Dave,
In all honesty, it IS a walkback tune. Just a 2 point walkback tune more or less. Shoot at one distance, then shoot at a longer distance, and adjust the rest. Even after I do my walkback, I still slap on BH's and tweak the bow to get the BH's to hit right with the FP's. And if I'm not within an 1-1.5" at 40yds w/ BH's vs. FP's, I'm not happy. I agree though, there isn't a "quick tune" when it comes to getting a bow ready, that's why we have so many Crossbow hunters in OHIO, because TUNING a bow is "too difficult."
If in the end we get to our goal, getting our bows to shoot straight, and hitting the target we aim at, then we've succeeded in our tuning goals as well. I shot my last deer from 38 yds hit him just a hair higher than intended, but a 5yd track job is good enough for me.
