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Old 07-28-2003 | 12:51 AM
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c903
 
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Default RE: Does torque make paper tuning useless???

Arthur:

Unfortunately, paper tuning does no such thing.
A little drastic and too encompassing, Maybe not for you, and maybe not for others, but definitely for me and definitely for others.

If a bow actually had as many maladjustment' s as you have described, and having shot several strings nothing ever showed up on paper, I would ship that bow to " Ripley' s." Someone does not know how to paper-tune or to read the paper.

However, tuning a compound bow and accessories starts before the first shot into paper or foam. I don' t know what experiences you have had, but when I step up to shoot the paper, I know there will only be a few adjustments to make to obtain " bullet holes" if I am not getting them e.g., draw-weight adjust, nock height adjust, and centering rest

One advantage of not trading bows every year, and having (nearly) the same type of bow if you have more than one, is that you soon know the best settings for the bow even before you shoot. Until you do thoroughly know your equipment, there are tuning aspects that are universal before tweaking occurs.

I know that some very good shooter use the " bare shaft" method, but not me. You could not pay me to shoot a bare-shaft from today' s high-energy bows. A shaft could bend, or blow up on release and cause serious injury. The method, in my opinion, has to be hard on bow limbs. I find the paper more exact when it comes to reading shaft flight.


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