Bare shaft tuning vs. paper tuning?

[Chris Shelton]

#6953

Hello tradbow,
I am a bit confused about this subject. I understand the process very well for both of these and how to read the results but what I dont understand is the difference!? They both give the same results if you have the correctly spined shaft right? What exactly are the differences, and if there are not any differences, what are the pro and cons? Thanks,

Chris

[Hiram]

#56661

I have used both methods. I prefer the bare shaft method over the paper method. It accomplishs the same thing without having to have the paper and frame. I also use the planeing method which utilizes the “Bell curve”. This can be found on Ol”s site. Tuning for tens is a good baseline also. I guess the short answer is that; the elaborate pain in the butt the paper requires to be set up is really not for me. I can get it done with the bare shaft method (results) without the paper. 10 yards and a target at the same level as my arrow and I can see the same thing by the nock angle and point entry. Remember that bare shafts should be taped up with electricians tape the length of the fletching. This will compensate the for the “stiffening effect” that fletching has on the arrow after they are glued to the shaft. A slightly weak arrow may the ticket if you do not use the tape. Properly spined bare shafts will fly decent to 20 yds or more. Shot off the shelf and without a plunger, shafting may not be as perfect in flight. In other words, good flight at 20 or thirty yds with a bare shaft is really pretty good.

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