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Bowhunting101 with Whitetail101 - Part II
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:30 PM
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Part II: Tuning Basics
Your mother always told you, “You have to learn to walk before you can run”. That principle also applies to the bow tuning process. Shooting your new bow should be a fun experience and hunting with it should be even more fun, but neither will be that way if everything is not setup properly. The tuning process is where this will occur.
Bow tuning – the adjusting of the various components that make up your bow, until all work in unison to ensure your arrow flies straight and true to your intended target. No one hears about tuning until something goes wrong. This is a very essential part of the archery process and should never be overlooked or shortcutted. Unless tuning is meticulously performed, you will never be satisfied with the result.
In this piece, I will attempt to decipher the almost foreign language of bow tuning.
Why Tuning?
Tuning? Isn’t that something a musician does to his instruments, or a mechanic does to your car? Tuning is also a very important aspect of the archery process. Tuning is simply the method of adjusting the relevant working parts of your bow to produce near perfect arrow flight.
Tuning a longbow is nothing more than choosing an arrow of the correct spine and length, then setting the nock point and checking brace height. Tuning the recurve shot “off the shelf” is very similar. If a rest is added then you will need to check center shot and fletching clearance.
A compound bow, with its intricate system of wheels and cables that both increase speed and reduce holding weight, adds many more parts that require adjustment.
Getting Started
Tools Required – You will need the following tools to get everything setup
1. Bow Press – for installing the peep, if not done already
2. Allen wrench set, both stand and metric
3. Bow Square
4. Centershot gauge
5. Nocking Pliers
6. Bubble levels
7. bow vise
Step 1 Setting the tiller – AMO defines tiller as the amount of difference in the distance from the top handle/limb junction to the string and the distance from the bottom handle/limb junction to the string. Simply stated tiller is the distance from the string to the area where the limb attaches to the riser. These distance to begin with should be the same, this will ensure
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RE: Bowhunting101 with Whitetail101 - Part II
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:56 PM
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More great info to much time on your hands but thanks.
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