Yea, after reading all the hubbub about nock travel I'm not overly concerned about it. Could someone critique my tuning procedure and explain the disadvantages to performing a "move-nock-free" paper tune? This works in terms of eliminating the tears, but I have reservations about it since the bow may be nocked higher or lower than the manufacturer intended it to be.
Use a bow square to place the nocking point according to the rest holes with the bottom line of the arrow on level with the imaginary line drawn between the bottom of the two rest holes. The bottom of the knocking point is also level to these two lines. Paper tune from close distance with a fletched arrow by moving only the rest to eliminate vertical tears.
I can eliminate tears with ease, but that hidden variable, the distance from the cam axle that the nock is most level throughout a shot, isn't taken into consideration...........think I just pointed out what was wrong with this technique. If this technique is flawed, how does the manufacturer determine where to place those rest holes? Do they have a magical formula that states where level nock travel exists?
With the adjustability of today's rests, I would think that unless the rest holes are vertically placed where they are for a reason, that moving the nocking point would be unnecessary. Or is it?!