How To Paper Tune Your Bow

Bow Bootcamp is a 10-part series designed to get you, your equipment, and your skills in peak shape for fall. That means gear checks, accessory tweaks, precision bow tuning, and shooting drills to become you totally dialed in. In Role i, Function two, Part 3, and Office 4, we got your bow and arrows fully ready for the next critical step: paper tuning.

Now that you've got your bow set to shoot, it's time to start getting it perfectly tuned. Well, well-nigh time. I actually don't like moving straight to the paper-tuning jig directly after bow setup, for a few reasons. Get-go, if I'm shooting a new bow or a bow with a new string, I desire to shoot at least 100 arrows through information technology to go the stretch out. 2d, I want to become familiar with my new bow or re-familiarize myself with one I haven't shot in a while.

Establishing a good, repeatable grip that doesn't add torque to the riser is key to proper paper tuning. Jace Bauserman

The slightest alter in form or grip can alter a newspaper tear. For case, you lot may shoot a perfect tear 1 twenty-four hours, walk back to the paper tuner a few days later with the same bow, and go from an platonic bullet pigsty to a nock-high tear. When this happens, virtually archers instantly presume something happened with the bow, but modernistic-day compounds don't just get out of melody unless something astringent happens. The change is usually with the archer. So, at the very least, shoot the bow enough that you feel like your course is solid and repeatable with it, then move to paper tuning. Once you're ready, hither are the steps to follow.

Step i: Take the first shot.

The author fires an arrow through a paper-tuning jig with a foam target backside it. Jace Bauserman

Using one of the field-tipped arrows yous built in Part three, stand ii or 3 yards from the paper (with a target far enough behind that your pointer volition pass completely through the paper) and acquire your usual repeatable grip, and then draw, settle into your anchor, and execute a perfect shot. Don't sew to the newspaper and evaluate the tear right away. Y'all kickoff demand to reverberate on the shot y'all took. Was information technology a proficient shot? Was your release shine or did you lot jab the trigger and rush the shot? Did your grip feel the same as information technology has for the past few days you've been shooting, or did you torque it? Be honest with yourself.

At present, if you lot feel like you fabricated a good shot, inspect the tear, but don't you make any adjustments nevertheless. Showtime, repeat the process at least twice more. If you continue getting more or less the same tear, you can presume the result is stemming from the bow and non your shooting, and you can go ahead and commencement evaluating and making tweaks.

Step 2: Diagnose the paper tears.

This is where people get confused. But it's actually pretty elementary. Kickoff await for the circular hole; this is where the point of the arrow entered the paper. So expect for lines or slits; this is where the arrow's vanes entered the paper. In a perfect tear, or "bullet hole," the circular hole sits in the heart and the lines of the vanes emanate evenly from around that hole. In a bad tear, the pigsty is in 1 identify and the lines of the vanes are in another, either slightly in a higher place, beneath, right, or left. Below is a list of newspaper tears and how to properly correct them.

• Good: No adjustment necessary
• Tail Low: Lower the rest or move your D-loop upward
• Tail High: Raise the remainder or move your D-loop down
• Multiple: This will have a combination of moving the rest or loop up or downwards and the rest left or right
• Tail Correct: Move the rest to the left
• Tail Left: Motion the rest to the right

On bows with yoke systems, you can twist the cablevision(s) to clean upwards a paper tear. However, because today's arrow rests are and then adjustable (many to the thousandths of an inch), yous can usually tune a bow using but tweaks to the residual and/or D-loop summit.

Step 3: Nock tune whatever flyers.

A slight twist of a nock can become a "flyer" pointer back in line. Mark where the nock needs to be for the pointer to wing true. Jace Bauserman

Once yous go a perfect tear on the first arrow, don't stop. I recommend shooting all of your field-tipped arrows through paper. Even as precise as today'southward arrows are, information technology's not uncommon to get a flyer—an pointer that doesn't fly as well as the remainder. Before labeling the pointer an outcast, reshoot it. Often the second or third time I shoot an arrow that didn't tear like the remainder, I discovered the trouble was with my grip. Other times, if the tear remains sub-par, I can rotate the nock in the shaft. This is chosen nock-tuning. A rotation of the nock can sometimes create better spine alignment. You'll exist shocked how a simple nock rotation can make clean up what many archers would characterization a "flyer."

Footstep 4: Know when to quit.

One time y'all're satisfied with the tears you're getting from all your arrows, stop shooting them through newspaper. Archers tend to exist perfectionists, and I'm no different. I used to shoot my bow through paper every few weeks, which proved problematic. I would exist on the range, shooting not bad, and then go to the paper tuner, shoot an arrow, and detect an ever-so-slightly imperfect tear. Instead of realizing the tear was from a minor imperfection in my form and not a tuning issue, I would start to tinker. Tinkering with a bow you already know is tuned up only causes unneeded worry and pre-shot anxiety. If your bow is tuned, information technology's tuned, and unless you lot drop your bow difficult on the ground, or detect nock travel while shooting, or start noticing accuracy problems, leave information technology lone.

And call back, one session of bad shooting does not equal "accuracy issues." Everyone has bad days. When they pop upwards, put the bow down and walk away for a few hours, or peradventure a few days. Only double-bank check your tune if the issues persist.

Finally, use a pencil or Sharpie to marking where your cams intersect the limbs, your peep sight is on the string , and your pointer remainder alignment. Then tighten downward all your screws, and exist certain your rest cord is tied in or your limb zipper string is tight and tied off correctly. That done, y'all are gear up to hit the range to sight in perfectly and go practicing for the field.

Source: https://www.fieldandstream.com/gear/paper-tune-compound-bow/

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