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Old 08-11-2003 | 01:44 PM
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Default RE: Bareshafting: Should this concern me?

I understand the fact that bareshaft tuning is more or less for finger shooters and recurve bows. I read somewhere where someone was using bare shafts to tune his compound. In turn, I was curious to see what kind of flight I got with the bare shaft.

At this point it did not concern me because I was shooting pretty good. 2" groups out to 25 yards and 3-4" groups at 30-35 yards. I have done many tuning steps to get to this point . My shooting form seems very consistent. Hand torgue was somewhat of a concern but I think I have greatly reduced it from daily practice. I try and shoot about 80-100 arrows each day. I tuned for nock height using the horizontal line method and tuned the rest using the vertical line method.

In essence I was just wondering with all the given points if shooting a bare shaft would fly this much differently since I had never tried it in the past.

I am shooting HCA 4 runner with cx300 carbons tipped with 100grain FP. Draw weight is 73#. Draw length is 30" . Can' t remember what the arrow length is exactly but 32" sounds right. The rest is a Quicktune 2000 Drop away. I am also shooting a release. This is only my second season shooting this bow and has been a big change from the bows I used in the past. Solo cam VS. Dual cam and axle to axle length are among the biggest differences. Since gettin this bow I had to adjust my form somewhat to reduce torque due to the more unforgiving nature of the shorter bow length. All in all I think it is a great improvement.

Thanks for any advice.
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