Nock tuning arrows?

[The big greasy]

I’m planning on nock tuning my 12 arrows, my questions is if I keep cutting my arrows down after finding a bullet hole at 31 inches, will I have to rotate the nock as I cut the arrows down or not?

If someone wants to explain from start to finish for arrow building and tuning that would be great also. I have bare shafts right now.

 

[htlt_surfboards]

I think most people cut their arrows down first as short as you safely can and then knock tune after. I haven't ever heard of anyone nock tuning first and then cutting but I don't think that it would make a difference as nock tuning is really just finding the stiffest part of the arrow which won't change depending on length.

 

[Billy Goat]

I usually cut my shafts about the berger hole. You need to nock tune with the shafts fletched, if you tune bareshaft, then fletch, it will change. I use to nock tune as bareshafts, then always had to rotate nocks after they were fletched.

I haven't tuned them through paper, I tune them by impact. Either by shooting a vertical line, then a horizontal line, or cheating and using a shooting machine to get them same hole.


Number your arrows, shoot them, look for the most consistent impact in the bunch, then tune the others to that. Not uncommon to not get the whole dozen exactly right, but 10/12 I'm usually happy with.