3" tears are unacceptable with any setup, and I have to disagree that papertuning is a waste of time. To the contrary, it is a great "starting point" in the tuning process. One cannot shoot for beans with a 3" tear, and you'll drive yourself nutty trying to get it out simply by group tuning. One needs to start somewhere, and throwing a bullet hole or 1/4" tail-high left tear normally is a great place to start.

Now to the problem. If you are throwing correctly spined arrows with a straight-up tear and spring tension and nock height doesn't do squat, you may need to re-time your bow. I find it hard to believe that this rest alone will produce this amount of trouble if you had no problems with your other one. Try your old one just for the heck of it, and see if you can still get good results, could be you were geting a false read. Luckily you have a twin cam, and re-timing if needed can be done quite easily. If you find you do have problems also with your old rest, put your spring tension to middle of the road, and re-time your bow.Then set your nock height approx 1/8" above centerline, and then try it again. You may need to advance one cam slightly more than the other depending upon tear and release style and hookup. You can also try adding a pound or two to one limb or another, this may bring it in without the re-time, however I feel that a re-time would probably be a good thing in this case if the spring tension doesn't do it for you and the results are the same with your old rest if not, go back to your old rest!! Good luck, Pinwheel 12

Edited by - Pinwheel 12 on 01/23/2002 16:07:26