Yea. I shoot through paper and also group tune with a bare shaft. Mainly what it does is show you that all of the possible energy is being transfered into the arrow, and not being wasted. A bullet hole is what you want(obviously) and then i want my bare shaft to group with my feltched shafts. I robben hooded a fletched arrow with a bare shaft at 40 yards, so im pretty safe to say that its tuned. lol.