Broadhead tuning
07-08-2008, 05:24 PM
#11
RE: Broadhead tuning
I'm a lefty like you. After getting myself hopelessly confused with articles about this and that, I asked a guy (who was also a lefty) about tuning. Basically, you have to take everything you read about tuning and reverse it. If you have photoshop or paintshop (heck Windows Paint might even work) take your chart above that you cut 'n pasted, and take the two sections "Stiff Spine Reaction" and "Weak Spine Reaction" and REVERSE them.
Edit: I just used Paint Shop Pro for you and cut/pasted/reversed the two Spine Reactions charts. Print this out and keep it, it'll help us lefties keep our bows tuned.
Edit: I just used Paint Shop Pro for you and cut/pasted/reversed the two Spine Reactions charts. Print this out and keep it, it'll help us lefties keep our bows tuned.
07-08-2008, 06:43 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Broadhead tuning
ORIGINAL: bigcountry
You do? I never knew that and have tuned a bunch of setups. I find bareshaft tuning much more sensitive and easier to tune than the paper. And then aftewards, I see good tears in the paper anyway and usually if done right BH's hit where fields do.
But I have seen a whole bunch of people paper tune and then shoot BH's and have to make a bunch of adjustments.
ORIGINAL: 5 shot
Did you read through my link? you have to paper tune before you do anything. .
Did you read through my link? you have to paper tune before you do anything. .
But I have seen a whole bunch of people paper tune and then shoot BH's and have to make a bunch of adjustments.
07-08-2008, 07:07 PM
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RE: Broadhead tuning
thanks for the advise butcha...but i look at it just to move the rest the direction you want the arrow to go...and i was shooting to day and my broadheads and P heads are shooting 1 inch groups together...for some reason its was the oppostie of opposite...i was moving my P head and my broadhead stayed the same...its weird but it worked
07-08-2008, 07:27 PM
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RE: Broadhead tuning
ORIGINAL: 5 shot
Bigcountry were dealing with a fellow who is new to bow tuning/broadhead tuning. I can bombard him with bare shaft tuning, paper tuning, walk back tuning, and then get started on arrow tuning, fletching configuration etc, but what he needs is to get close to on track then we can debate the merits of paper vs bare shaft tuning.
ORIGINAL: bigcountry
You do? I never knew that and have tuned a bunch of setups. I find bareshaft tuning much more sensitive and easier to tune than the paper. And then aftewards, I see good tears in the paper anyway and usually if done right BH's hit where fields do.
But I have seen a whole bunch of people paper tune and then shoot BH's and have to make a bunch of adjustments.
ORIGINAL: 5 shot
Did you read through my link? you have to paper tune before you do anything. .
Did you read through my link? you have to paper tune before you do anything. .
But I have seen a whole bunch of people paper tune and then shoot BH's and have to make a bunch of adjustments.
07-08-2008, 08:02 PM
#16
RE: Broadhead tuning
ORIGINAL: Bowhunter1591
thanks for the advise butcha...but i look at it just to move the rest the direction you want the arrow to go...and i was shooting to day and my broadheads and P heads are shooting 1 inch groups together...for some reason its was the oppostie of opposite...i was moving my P head and my broadhead stayed the same...its weird but it worked
thanks for the advise butcha...but i look at it just to move the rest the direction you want the arrow to go...and i was shooting to day and my broadheads and P heads are shooting 1 inch groups together...for some reason its was the oppostie of opposite...i was moving my P head and my broadhead stayed the same...its weird but it worked
I was fortunate enough to have a bowshop about 1/2 hour away and got my bow all tweaked, tuned, and perfectly setup - by a fellow lefty bowhunter.
07-08-2008, 08:59 PM
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RE: Broadhead tuning
yeah, your very lucky to have a bow shop close by...the closest one to me is cabelas in Conn. about a 2 hour drive...i've tryed bow shops around me but everytime i go in and have them look at something they have no clue what it is...or if i have a question they look at me like i have 1,000 heads...there mostly just gun shops with a little archery room in the back
07-09-2008, 07:41 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Broadhead tuning
Yep, I know many a new tuner who has wasted hours on paper tuning. Including myself. In fact, he can follow the BH tuning chart without even touching paper, and come out better. No debate about it.
07-09-2008, 05:40 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Broadhead tuning
No not really. The key is a properly paper tuned bow. Most people really don't do it correctly and then have to make a lot of adjustments later. If properly done paper tuning will almost always get you very close to where you need to be. I have done it all, bare shaft, walk back and just done the tuning chart. The fact is that paper tuning not only will have your arrows shooting better, but will help you to understand what minor and major changes in your form, rest position, nock point location will do to arrow flight. Again the key is proper paper tuning. The other methods work, and work well, but paper tuning will show you things that you won't see right away using other methods.
07-09-2008, 05:56 PM
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RE: Broadhead tuning
ORIGINAL: 5 shot
No not really. The key is a properly paper tuned bow. Most people really don't do it correctly and then have to make a lot of adjustments later. If properly done paper tuning will almost always get you very close to where you need to be. I have done it all, bare shaft, walk back and just done the tuning chart. The fact is that paper tuning not only will have your arrows shooting better, but will help you to understand what minor and major changes in your form, rest position, nock point location will do to arrow flight. Again the key is proper paper tuning. The other methods work, and work well, but paper tuning will show you things that you won't see right away using other methods.
No not really. The key is a properly paper tuned bow. Most people really don't do it correctly and then have to make a lot of adjustments later. If properly done paper tuning will almost always get you very close to where you need to be. I have done it all, bare shaft, walk back and just done the tuning chart. The fact is that paper tuning not only will have your arrows shooting better, but will help you to understand what minor and major changes in your form, rest position, nock point location will do to arrow flight. Again the key is proper paper tuning. The other methods work, and work well, but paper tuning will show you things that you won't see right away using other methods.