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Tuning your compound for broadheads
« on: October 11, 2003, 05:01:11 AM »
:D  What is the most effective method of tuning your compound bow for broadheads. Is the paper test effective in helping you achieve good BH groupings or are there other methods that you may wish to share with us.
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« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2003, 09:20:34 AM »
Tune your bow to get good flight with a field point.

Then shoot a broadhead and tune it to impact the same as the field point. To do this you adjust your rest up/down, left/right towards the desired point of impact the same as you would adjust your sight pins.

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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2003, 05:23:54 AM »
Myk surely as you do this , adjust your rest up or down left or right then your field point grouping is going to change as well.
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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2003, 08:42:01 AM »
What you are doing is fine tuning. It doesn't take much rest movement at all. If it does I'd look for a different problem. I'd guess my rest gets moved much less than a millimeter in any direction.

Think of broadheads as fletching on the front. You got your field points with fletching on the back rough tuned with paper or by sight. Now you are making the ones that are really picky fly right.

I don't set my sight pins until after I tune this way. I have a one cam bow, so I set everything square and level, rough set my pins with field points, shoot a few broadheads and adjust the rest, then give my pins their final setting.
This even worked somewhat on my old wood riser bow which won't give clean flight no matter what I've tried.

You can't expect to get exact same flight unless the field points you are using are as long as your broadheads but you should be able to get most modern bows very close.