tak160
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Hey all, after fitting a new beiter nocking point onto my string (some of you may have seen my other thread on it ), I thought it best to retune my bow. I use to tune using Simon Needham's method but I thought I might give James Park's method a go seeing as people say it's quick and easy. So I went and shot at 20 yards to tune my bow using his method. It was indeed quick and easy and my bareshafts were within or just to the right of my groups (by about an inch), so I left the poundage as it was and went on to change the centre shot and pressure of the button until the arrows hit centre. It was indeed very quick and easy and I thought it was completely tuned (for my level).
I then went on to shoot at a 60 yard boss to work on my form briefly, but I noticed my arrows were in a good horizontal line on the boss but spread across the boss spanning as far out as the blue from one side to the other. This was fair enough, seeing that on average, they were flying towards the centre, I put it down to a possible poor release, bow torque, bad hand position etc.
I then shot at a 50 yard boss, but the arrows kept landing to the right of the boss in a group which I found quite puzzling seeing as at 20 and 60 yards they were going towards the centre (on average at 60 yards anyway).
Finally at the end of the night, I decided to test the tune of my bow using a couple of bareshafts at the 20 yard boss again. The fletched arrows were going to the centre of the boss as they should...but the bareshafts landed a good 3-4 inches from the centre, which means my arrows are too whippy.
Could the weak arrows be a cause of the arrows appearing to go to the right at 50 yards? And is this suppose to happen with the James Park method (the apparent weak shaft I mean)? Should I try and retune it again?
My arrows are actually a spine out for my bow (42 lbs with 710 navs) but seeing as the bareshafts didn't land too far off during the tuning, I thought I would leave it at that poundage, although I have been shooting for a few months now at this poundage and the arrows seemed to tune ok even with Simon Needham's method.
I then went on to shoot at a 60 yard boss to work on my form briefly, but I noticed my arrows were in a good horizontal line on the boss but spread across the boss spanning as far out as the blue from one side to the other. This was fair enough, seeing that on average, they were flying towards the centre, I put it down to a possible poor release, bow torque, bad hand position etc.
I then shot at a 50 yard boss, but the arrows kept landing to the right of the boss in a group which I found quite puzzling seeing as at 20 and 60 yards they were going towards the centre (on average at 60 yards anyway).
Finally at the end of the night, I decided to test the tune of my bow using a couple of bareshafts at the 20 yard boss again. The fletched arrows were going to the centre of the boss as they should...but the bareshafts landed a good 3-4 inches from the centre, which means my arrows are too whippy.
Could the weak arrows be a cause of the arrows appearing to go to the right at 50 yards? And is this suppose to happen with the James Park method (the apparent weak shaft I mean)? Should I try and retune it again?
My arrows are actually a spine out for my bow (42 lbs with 710 navs) but seeing as the bareshafts didn't land too far off during the tuning, I thought I would leave it at that poundage, although I have been shooting for a few months now at this poundage and the arrows seemed to tune ok even with Simon Needham's method.