Paper tune overrated for whitetail hunting?

[Blake C]

Hard to swallow pills inbound. . . If a prospective bow hunter can’t get consistent tears, that isn’t a fletching contact or rest malfunction issue, they have no business going in the field with bow in hand until they can, and then broadhead tune their bow.

I agree with [mention]Billy Goat [/mention]that the overwhelming majority of penetration issues are from lack of tuning.

Tuning bows isn’t hard. Paper tune with a fletched shaft at 7 -10 feet. Then you can bareshaft tune to 20ish yards (optional). Finally broadhead tune it to 60.

I think going straight to broadheads from paper is a little faster than the bareshaft route. You’re going to make the same adjustments with broadheads as you do with bareshafts. And bareshafts are even more critical of form imperfections than broadheads. For the vast majority of hunters, paper then broadhead tuning is all they need.


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I edited it. I should have proof read before posting. I meant "Can't " not can. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Lol

 

[Billy Goat]

All the time. If your have clean bare shaft flight and you have to bump you center shot over 1/16 or 1/32 to bring those broadheads into your field points then you changing your tune.

Have you confirmed that the bareshaft flight is off after you do that?

 

[Beendare]

I wont take my bow out of tune to shoot a particular Broadhead. Unfortunately that is what some people when they "Broadhead tune"

We didn't disagree on much...but that^ statement we do.

So what is happening when a BH tipped arrow is not impacting with a FP? First the assumption needs to be that the BH is assembled PERFECTLY- that it has perfect concentricity....which is the problem in many of the, "I can't get BH's to fly " cases I've seen. That alignment is very important.

Back to what happens; If the arrow is coming out of the bow slightly Cockeyed [scientific term] and not perfectly aligned, the BH will catch air and vector it off line. The FP's, they don't catch as much air- harder to detect. In fact, the more forgiving BH's and Mech heads don't catch as much air- thus it makes them more forgiving. There is degrees of this- typically short small heads are more forgiving.

So IF A BH TIPPED ARROW is not hitting with FP's- All of your arrows are out of tune...you only see it with the BH tipped arrow.

 

[Trial153]

Have you confirmed that the bareshaft flight is off after you do that?

I have several times, more than several times actually. Is it always no measurable? no, however it will be in varying degree depending on the amount or displacement from the field point impact.

Take two different broadhead styles and shoot groups with them verse a field point and if it’s not within your margin of error you will have to “broadhead tune” to different degrees for each.
which is correct? Which is tuned? Is one tuned more than the other?

IF you started with perfect arrow flight you are now changing that flight to compensate for the aerodynamics of the broadhead.