How tuned are you?

[Neo]

Ive only shot my new bow 3 times so still in the early stages of tuning it. Not experimented with the world of nodes yet so will have to have that one explained to me over the summer.

[Orinoco]

Until it starts limiting me, instead of me limiting it... I shall leave it as it is

[moo-mop]

Its impossible to tune a bow to shoot better than you can

Perhaps I had better explain.... it's just that the statement spoke to me of the best summary I've ever heard of what tuning is and isn't.

1) wrong: it is is the whole point of tuning, we make errors, a well tuned bow helps minimize the effects of those errors (the term usually used is forgiving), we score better, making the bow shoot better than we otherwise would.
2) right: the errors you can rid of by "tuning" are minute (really really minute) cf to the errors you do in and of yourself.

OK if you are have the wrong arrows etc by several spines it's going to be hard but beyond that tuning is a mystery and very little use to me.
I fall back on the accepted model of a tuned bow, bareshafts near fletched ones, and well I don't even manage that. And I've never found changing the button changes the relative position of the two groups...YMMV.

[Nick Forster]

I get stu 369 to do the tiller he's good at that. Set the bracing hight so that the bow is quite and bare shaft tune my arrows very slightly weak leval with the group. approx 11/4" over to the right @ 15yards because this is the length of my garden other than that I leave it alone it seem to shoot nice.

[GreenSteve]

i do my best to tune my Bow to allow me to shoot the best i can
(could it be tuned better - probably, could i shoot better - probably)

[madmac]

Depends on what method im using if tunning for tens then my bareshaft is out by miles , but its good enough for me (bought new ace arrows)so more fiddleing hurrayyy!!!!!!!!!!! its been just about a year (world record for me) since any major investment

[Kae]

Just in case anyone was wondering; I hate/loath/detest bow tuning

Kae.

[Random_guy]

Well i made up my new arrows tonight and shot two ends with them indoors, with 3 fletched and 2 bareshafts, i tweaked my button roughly to account for the stiffer spine than that of the nav's i'd been tuning with last.

First end *CRUNCH* bareshafts and fletched nicely grouped together. Now for sunday and another bareshaft test at 30m. If that works then i doubt i'll touch it again all season.

[Marcus26]

I discovered a few years ago that cutting corners anywhere in my archery costs me points. Now I work hard on gear, form and mental side and are seeing improvements. All 3 are as important as each other.

[buzz lite beer]

I get my gear set up, so that even the shots you can feel aren't right still allow you to get you near to the middle, though just running my kit at a quite basic, tiller, nocking point, and a preliminary centre shot at the mo. well its based on previous set ups that I recorded the details and duplicated on my new gear.