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Old 07-27-2003 | 10:17 PM
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Arthur P
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Default RE: Does torque make paper tuning useless???

...paper-tuning is my calibrator that I use to ascertain that each piece of gear that is adjusted to best performance to enable the best (shaft) flight and accuracy possible...
Unfortunately, paper tuning does no such thing. If that' s what you' ve got confidence in, great, but there are plenty ways to shoot bullet holes and have a totally screwed up tune. Like the guy at the shop that decided to tune my bow for me and got it to shoot bullet holes with the nock set nearly an inch below square. Tiller was ALL screwed up. Or the single cam bows that have a sweet spot that will give you bullet holes with centershot set way off into the riser. Or overspined/underspined arrows with the centershot adjusted way off to compensate. Or an out of time cam with nock height set to compensate. Or a rest set too stiff with a compensating nockset. Or various combinations of all those things.

All will give the mythical bullet hole with the bow not even close to being adjusted to give best performance and accuracy. Paper tuning is WAY over emphasized. It' s only a starting point for more refined tuning, and it' s a starting point that is much more easily accomplished, with a lot less stress, by other methods... like bareshafting.
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