Some people live by paper tuning. Some completely ignore it. I' m one of the ones who ignores it. It' s nothing more than a basic method to tell you how the arrow is coming off the bow.

The theory is that if the arrow is coming off the bow perfectly straight and leaving a nice round hole with easily defined fletching tears, then the bow is perfectly tuned. In a way, it IS... Perfectly tuned to shoot perfect holes in a sheet of paper. The bow is not necessarily perfectly tuned to shoot with it' s best accuracy.

On the rare ocassion I actually do shoot through a piece of paper, I don' t waste any time trying for the ' perfect' tear (and a waste of time is exactly what going after that perfect tear is). I get it close and then move straight on to fine tuning, making very small adjustments in centershot and nock/rest height, until my groups are as small as I am capable of shooting at the furthest distances I can shoot well, and broadheads are grouping somewhat close to field points. Not necessarily grouping perfectly WITH my field points, but not a foot away either.