Nutsandbolts Draw Board Plan Arhcerytalk

I hear it frequently this fourth dimension of yr, "I need to get my bow tuned up" or "I'm having trouble getting my bow to tune." Mostly speaking, tuning a bow might seem mysterious or at to the lowest degree something that tin can only be done by your local pro shop. While your local pro shop is a neat resource to get your bow tuned, tuning a bow is something that every bowhunter should at least empathize and, in many cases, practice themselves. And so let's talk most what tuning really means.

How do you define a well-tuned bow?

For me, my ultimate goal is to evangelize a broadhead-tipped arrow to the verbal spot I intend it to hitting. Specifically, I want it to striking at 20 yards all the way to 80 yards. I want the arrow to enter as direct equally possible, cutting efficiently and conveying as much kinetic energy through equally it can. I also want the bow to be a little fleck forgiving to a slight tweak in my grade in a less than perfect situation. I want it to hold well and exist accurate. I also want to be able to spend the preseason months practicing with both field and broadhead-tipped arrows. I want them to hit together and I want my practice to build my conviction and confirm that my grade and bow and pointer setup are equally lethal as I tin can become them. That is what I consider a well-tuned bow. With that, allow's spring into how to melody a compound bow.

Some suggest that a bow has to "paper melody," which is a visual indication of what an arrow is doing very apace after information technology leaves the bow. Others discard paper tuning birthday and advise that "bare shaft" tuning is the merely way to properly tune. A few other types of tuning methods that are tossed effectually are "group tuning," "broadhead tuning," "walk-back tuning" and, perhaps, even torque tuning although that is addressing a more specific issue. Every method has its fans and its critics. Personally, I like to utilize multiple methods. Past doing this, I gain greater confidence in my setup.

Nocking signal, rest location and cam timing

Whether you are pulling a brand new bow out of the box or you are starting over and setting your bow up over again from scratch, the commencement thing I similar to do is lesser out both the top and bottom limbs. Next, I visually check for cam timing. Past cam timing, I mean that both cams are in sync and both roll over at the same fourth dimension. Well-timed cams allow the draw stops on each cam to contact the cables or limbs at exactly the aforementioned time. Many of the newer compound bows take indication marks or holes on the cams that you can look at to see if the cams are timed.

Checking cam timing holes on Mathews VXR 31.v.

For example, my Mathews VXR has a hole on each cam that you tin can expect at to see where the cablevision is in relation to the cam. Each cable centered visually through those holes tells me that the bow is probable in fourth dimension. Cam timing is important. If one cam is reaching total rotation earlier the other, it will result in an arrow that, if receiving more rotation from one cam, results in an arrow that will show either high or low paper tears that yous probably won't be able to work out by moving your rest or nocking point. Long story brusk: do a quick check visually for cam timing before y'all even get started.

What if my cams are not in fourth dimension?

Top and bottom cams are in time.

Cam rotation can be manipulated by adding or even removing twists from the cables in social club to go the draw stops hit at the aforementioned time. If yous twist a cable, yous are effectively shortening information technology, thus increasing the distance the draw stop has to rotate to stop. Untwisting does the opposite — it lengthens the cable and reduces the distance of rotation for the draw stop to hitting. I always endeavor to apply twisting cables or strings rather than untwisting. Too, be aware that the twisting and untwisting tin have other impacts on describe length and describe weight.

Also at this indicate, I like to do a quick mensurate of the axle to axle length and the brace height to see if those measurements encounter the manufacturer's recommendations. Axle to axle is measured from the center of the top axle to the centre of the lesser axle on the shelf side of the bow. Caryatid tiptop is measured from the deepest part of the grip to the bow cord. If your bow appears to have good cam timing and the brace height and axle to axle are close to factory spec, then my adjacent step is to set a nocking point.

To gear up a nocking point, my method is to measure the distance between the ii axles and set my nocking point and then the arrow is centered between that. I then necktie in my nocking signal. After that, I install my rest and lock information technology down with my arrow at a 90 caste angle to the string.

Another method is to attach your rest is to put your bow in a bow vise. Use a level and the vise to put your bow in a position that your string is perfectly vertical (i.due east. level). Next, use an pointer on your cord and adjust your rest height so that the arrow is running through the eye of the berger hole (rest zipper hole) and it is 90 degrees running from your leveled string. At that point, tie in your nocking signal(s) and secure your rest vertically.

Subsequently I have the nocking point tied in, my residuum fastened and the arrow squared, I set the horizontal location of my residuum. I outset with my residual at thirteen/sixteen" from the edge of the riser. I may terminate up moving that if need be, but that's a skillful starting signal. For my Mathews bows, that is the magic spot for my rest.

With the nocking signal and rest set, I tie in my D-loop. After that, I draw the bow several times to become a feel for the cam timing. A describe lath is the best way to check timing, but if you do not have one y'all can have someone watch your cams equally yous describe. Y'all can also get a good experience for it yourself by slowing down and cartoon your bow repeatedly. Never draw a bow without having an pointer nocked.

Arrow selection & other accessories

Before moving to the next stride of really shooting the bow you have to think about pointer selection and the other accessories y'all are going to put on your bow.

You will need to shoot an arrow that has the proper spine for your setup. By spine, I mean the stiffness of the pointer. If the pointer is too weakly spined or too stiffly spined for your bow, it volition be very tough and likely impossible to tune.  Most pointer manufacturers have charts they provide where you tin can find your draw length and describe weight. The chart will indicate the proper spine for you lot to shoot.

Another method, which is what I would recommend, is to apply the "shaft selector" software that is available online through a company called Archers Advantage. The cost is about $ten and, with it, you can build setups and generate an arrow that is perfectly tailored to you.

For instance, I tin input the model of bow, my describe length and draw weight. Then, I tin play with arrow spines, lengths, components and I can create the perfect pointer for my bow. It's a great product and I highly recommend it.

After you take picked an arrow, I'd suggest that you piece of work on getting your stabilizer(southward) and sight attached. Annihilation on your bow, including your accessories — fifty-fifty your peep sight — is going to impact the melody. I've seen guys shoot a blank bow that tuned perfectly and then added a stabilizer setup and they suddenly have a bad paper tear or poor bare shaft results.

Finally, you have your bow set upward and are set up to fire a few arrows and commencement to tune.

Paper Tuning

I like to beginning out by paper tuning. For one, it's relatively easy to do in a small space and I tin do it at home in my equipment room. To paper tune your bow, you'll need a bow, arrows, a frame that can hold a piece of paper that you can shoot through and a target placed behind it. The goal of paper tuning is to stand approximately half dozen' to 8' from the paper and shoot an pointer through the newspaper into the target. The resulting "tear" through the newspaper is a perfectly centered hole. A perfect tear would indicate the arrow is leaving the bow with true flight. In order to become a perfect paper tear, your pointer rest, nocking signal, cam timing, grip and arrow spine all take to be correct.

Fixing newspaper tears

Left tear (nock left - point right)
Rest	Cam(s)	Arrow	Cable baby-sit
Motility rest correct	Move cam(s) left or short left yoke	Use stiffer pointer or subtract point weight	Move cablevision guard toward arrow

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Right tear (nock right - point left)
Balance	Cam(south)	Arrow	Cable guard
Move residue left	Move cam(south) right or shorten right yoke	Use weaker arrow or increment point weight	Move cable baby-sit abroad from arrow

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High tear (nock loftier - point low)
Rest	Nock point	Cam(s)	Cable guard
Motion rest up	Motility nock indicate downward	Twist cable for summit cam	Accept a 1/4" turn out of top limb commodities

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Low tear (nock low - point high)
Rest	Cam(s)	Pointer	Cable guard
Motility balance downward	Movement nock point up	Twist cablevision for lesser cam	Accept a 1/iv" turn out of bottom limb bolt

A philharmonic of tears tin can be stock-still by combining methods. For case, a loftier left tear might exist fixed past moving the residual right and up. Generally, I would recommend y'all start with the easiest adjustment and retest before moving to steps like stiffer or weaker arrows, cam shimming, etc. More information on how to tune a Mathews bow with height hats can be found here.

Bare shaft tuning

After paper tuning, bare shaft tuning is my 2d step in the process. Bare shaft tuning is quite unproblematic, just you have to have relatively skilful, repeatable shooting form. Commencement with 2 or three bare shafts (no fletchings) and 2 or three regular fletched arrows and shoot them, starting at about 15 to twenty yards. The goal is to accept the bare shaft and the fletched arrows hit the exact same point. The bare shaft should enter the target at the aforementioned vertical and horizontal aeroplane/bending as the fletched arrows. A well-tuned bow will group those arrows together and they volition enter the target exactly the same fashion.

But what if they practice not hit together?

Similar to the paper tuning method, your options for getting good bare shaft flying are to movement the rest, the nocking point, the cam(s) left or right, arrange the left or correct yoke, adjust the cam timing or make changes to your pointer setup.

Bare shaft tuning gear up (point of affect)
	Bare shaft left	Bare shaft correct	Bare shaft high	Bare shaft low
Rest	Motion remainder left	Move rest right	Lower rest	Enhance residuum
Nock point	-	-	Raise knocking point	Lower nocking bespeak
Cam(s)	Move cam correct	Move cam left	-	-
Yokes	Twist right yoke	Twist left yoke	-	-
Cam(s)	Move cam right	Movement cam left	-	-
Cam Timing	-	-	Twist cable bottom cam	Twist cablevision top cam
Arrows	Maybe too potent	Perhaps likewise weak	-	-
Other crusade	Draw length maybe likewise short	Draw length maybe too long	-	-

As you begin to tune, make changes in small increments. It besides helps to tape the changes you make and monitor the results. Information technology may accept days to work out the tune, ensure that  y'all are shooting with proficient form and executing skilful shots.

Walk back tuning

Walk back is still another method to help you lot guarantee that your bow'due south centershot is true, meaning your balance is in the proper position left to right. The procedure is elementary: you shoot at a single spot on a target using the same pin at a variety of distances and monitor the results.

Beginning, apply a piece of tape vertically straight up and down (plumb) through the center of your target. Brand sure you have an aiming point that the record runs through.  Then sight in your twenty yard pin to that aiming point. At present, moving back to 30, 40, 50 and 60 yards, aiming and shooting at the aforementioned aiming point and using your same twenty yard pin at each distance. If you shoot a single pin slider, do not move your sight. At each distance, use the same 20 yard pivot.

A well-tuned rest center shot will yield in a directly vertical line. Every arrow should exist vertically in a line in the tape, 20 all the way to 60 yards ( I ). If the line of arrow runs off to the left ( / ), you will need to move your balance to the right. If your arrows run off to the correct ( \ ), you'll demand to move your balance to the left.

Brand pocket-sized changes and reshoot as yous go. Remember that after you make an adjustment to your rest you will probable accept to move your sight and resight in again at 20 yards before starting the walk back process once more. Recording your adjustments and results can help you go on things moving in a positive manner. Once again, this may have a few days to make certain you get skilful shots and results.

Torque tuning

For those that have fifty-fifty more time to test and tinker, torque tuning might be worth considering. Torque tuning substantially is adjusting your residue into a position (forward or further back) so that when your grip is less than perfect (similar it regularly is in a hunting state of affairs) your pointer will however wing truthful.

To start, sight your bow in at xx yards. And then, draw your bow and slightly torque your grip and so that the riser has more pressure to ane side or the other (use common sense, exercise not derail your bow) As you do so, have notation of what management your stabilizer is pointing, and so put your pin on the target and fire an arrow.

If the pointer impacts the direction that your stabilizer was pointing when torqued, move your rest farther back and echo. If the arrow impacts the opposite management of the way your stabilizer was pointing, and then move your rest farther forwards and echo. Overall, you are trying to observe the sweet spot where, if y'all have less than perfect grip and are torquing the bow, the arrow will all the same impact the desired spot. After yous observe the spot, examination your results by torquing the bow both left and right and shooting to ostend your results. You can also stride your yardage dorsum to 30 or even forty yards and repeat to fine-tune your balance location for maximum forgiveness.

Broadhead tuning

Finally, good broadhead flight is the reason nosotros all started tuning in the commencement place and, if you've washed the work with other methods like paper tuning and blank shaft tuning, information technology should exist really shut already.

A fixed-blade broadhead is going to have more than expanse than your field tips and because of this will exaggerate an fault in flight. Before I begin shooting broadheads, there are a few steps I like to accept to ensure that any bug I might see are non the problems with the arrow/broadhead and are, indeed, issues with tune.

The commencement pace is to install a broadhead and check for alignment by spinning each arrow. Any misalignment will cause a wobble in the pointer and poor flight. To check each pointer, use an arrow spinner like the Pino Ridge Arrow Inspector. Spin each arrow, taking note of the broadhead tip, watching for whatsoever wobble in the tip. Another method that I prefer is to put the tip of the broadhead upwardly against a paper-thin box and as yous spin the arrow you volition meet the point start to make a circle in the cardboard if there is any misalignment. Perfect alignment will upshot in a pin pigsty in the cardboard and perfect alignment.

If the pointer tip does make a circumvolve in the box, rotate the pointer tip until it's in the pinnacle most position so use a sharpie to mark the arrow tip at that position. Rotate that pointer 180 degrees from that marker and so apply force per unit area to the point of the caput on a difficult surface. What you are wanting to do is to bend or push button the insert in alignment with the broadhead. Recheck alignment by spinning the arrow and broadhead over again. Afterwards your pointer/broadhead combos are put together, information technology's time to shoot them.

For a detailed look at broadhead tuning, you tin can check out an article and video I did on this here.

Hopefully, your broadheads fly perfectly and affect forth with your field tips out to 80 yards, but sometimes that is not the instance. Ane of the most common questions I get almost broadhead flight is how do I go my broadheads to fly with my field tips? Likewise, what is your broadhead flight telling you virtually your tune? The first thing I would suggest is that you should not automatically just motion your sight so your broadheads are impacting where you want. That is a Band-Aid and you won't be able to practice with field tips and have them touch where you desire. Beneath, I have included a table to aid yous become your broadheads and field tips hitting together.

Broadhead tuning your bow
Issue	Balance fix	Cam fix
Broadheads hit left	Move rest left	Move cam right
Broadheads hitting right	Motility residue right	Move cam left
Broadheads hitting high	Move residuum downwards or motion nock point upwards	Twist cable for lesser cam
Broadheads hitting low	Move rest upwardly or motility nock signal down	Twist cablevision for top cam

After yous brand adjustments to your residue to get your field tips and broadheads hitting together, then motility your sight to re-sight in your pins. This method will ensure your bow is well-tuned (expert newspaper/bare shaft tune) and your broadheads and field tips hit exactly where y'all desire them to!

Finally, I'll provide another tabular array below that can help in your tuning efforts and setting your bow to spec.

Full general tuning crusade and effect
	Twisting string	Untwisting string	Twisting cablevision	Untwisting cablevision
Axle to axle	Decreases	Increases	Decreases	Decreases
Caryatid height	Increases	Decreases	Increases	Decreases
Holding weight	Increases	Decreases	Decreases	Increases
Draw length	Decreases	Increases	Increases	Decreases

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In conclusion

Hopefully the COVID-19 pandemic will pass rapidly and we tin all get back to some normalcy and prepare for the fall hunting seasons. While nosotros have some time at home, stay safe, enjoy time with family and put some real attempt into having the most well-tuned bow you have always entered a season with. All the all-time!

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