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08-13-2003 | 08:11 AM

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Len in Maryland

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From: Baltimore Maryland USA

The tuning trilogy!

TUNE the BOW...TUNE the ARROW...TUNE the ARCHER.

If you don' t know how to do each of these phases, choice of broadhead doesn' t matter as much. Addressing all three phases will assure effective delivery of the projectile to point-of-impact. If you miss one of the phases, you will definitely affect the entire process.

I had a customer in just yesterday who had his bow tuned by my shop. He had also been given instruction (tune the archer) by me personally. What he failed to do was check out/tune his arrows properly before cresting them and making them look pretty for hunting. The arrows were NOT tuned properly and some subsequently missed the entire broadhead target when fitted with fixed broadheads.

For those who will raise the question, he did not ask us to tune/select his arrows for broadhead use. This is a very costly process because it is time consuming. Customers can do this process, if they know the procedure and have the tools. Generally, carbon arrows have to be checked much more closely than aluminum arrows, IMPO.[

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While tuning the bow and arrows can be a major task, tuning the archer (especially a veteran) can be most troublesome.

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