The Most Important Part Of Shooting
Archery shooting enthusiasts around the world have many different options when it comes to tuning their equipment, and it is the most important part of shooting.
I want to share with you a few of these methods which include:
- Paper-tuning,
- Square-tuning,
- Nock-high tuning,
- Super-tuning.
The reason for bringing this information to you is to explain the benefits of super-tuning and hope it can help you.
I will explain many different styles of tuning and share how your accuracy and enjoyment can improve with the proper tuning of you equipment.
I have worked with archery equipment for nearly 14 years and I have been certified through PSE archery equipment as a trainer and archery technician.
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Most tuners in the archery business will only tune your bow the way that they have always done it, the way things have worked it the past, or unfamiliar with new ways of tuning. This leads to the first type of tuning
Paper-tuning
- Adjusting bow to tears in a paper made by the arrow when shot.
- Changing of arrows shafts to make up for bad adjusting.
- Object being to create a clean tear through the paper.
Square-tuning
- Placing of a metal T square on the arrow rest and clipped to the string.
- Widely use practice for older style bows.
- Shows where to put nock by how it lays on the arrow rest.
- Requires also use of another tuning method to work
Nock-high tuning
- This method starts by placing the nock of an inch above center of the string.
- Creates downward pressure on the arrow rest, arrow rest must press back against arrow to hold it straight.
- Can slow the arrow down and have to use stiffer shafted arrows to accommodate the pressure again slowing the arrow down.
Super-tuning
- Everything on the bow is set up square and level.
- Arrow rest, arrow and nock point are all level to each other and the bow.
- Creates a clean power-stroke from the pinch point through the arrow rest.
- No downward pressure on rest, makes for lighter arrow shafts, allows for less stiff arrows, which equals faster speeds
- Increase in accuracy and no inconsistency
We have tuned well over 1,000 bows and have turned poor to mediocre shooters into great shots by getting their equipment working together not against itself.
Conclusion
- In Review, each type of tuning has and will work
- Tuning is the most important part of shooting
- Super-tuning gives the customer the most consistent results and the quickest satisfaction with archery.
- Have the knowledge that their equipment will do the job
- Give the information each and every one of you can learn to shoot with a bow that is super-tuned and learn to shoot properly.
- Make you goals in archery attainable and give newcomers the best chance to enjoy archery;
I hope that I have been able to inform you about the different options for tuning your archery equipment and that this will give you more enjoyment out of shooting.
