I'm new here and a novice bow hunter. I've quelled over a response for a bit now and summed it up to this quote... “When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” Charles de Lint If the goal is ethically harvesting animals and knowing your arrow will hit it's mark, anything you've done to achieve this is reasonable to me.
I never de tune anything. It just so happens that after tuning, for the most part, if I have the proper equipment, they hit together. That's not to say that they HAVE to.
I'm still trying to learn as much as I can in regards to tuning a bow properly and not just getting the pins sighted in. That's the main reason I'm shooting mechanicals right now, but I have a block target for shooting them to see if I have to make any adjustments for the broadheads. Once I have a really firm grasp of paper tuning and other methods, I plan to switch to a fixed broadhead and tweak the bow as necessary, not only for proper arrow flight but to continue to learn! One of the main reasons I enjoy this website, for all the info and tech tips the experience guys post here!
Yep, if your Broadheads and field points are hitting the same place. That's Not Detuning...lol. From my experience, if there not hitting the same or Very close. Something isn't right.
LOL! If you bow is tuned to broadheads and you move your D loop or rest to get your field points to hit with broadheads you are de tuning your bow for broadheads, It's that simple. Hell I can make them hit in the same place if I want
It's all relative. If one tunes a bow that has bareshafts and field points together, broadheads will follow suit,(provided the spine is correct, adequate helical fletch, good broadhead alignment etc) unless they are not a high quality broadhead to begin with, or there is a problem with the equipment.(rest falling too soon etc) When I'm done tuning, bareshafts hit with field points. (Typically) Many don't go through the steps I do and just start moving the rest to get the 2 together and imo, this is not best for either broadheads or field points.
A broadhead needs more tune than a field point to be as accurate and forgiving as possible. A field point really doesn't need much tune at all. Many prefer a target arrow to leave the bow a little tail high to give it a consistent release and achieve clearance. This is NOT best for a broadhead. A broadhead can take over and steer the arrow if this happens. Creep tuning can be achieved in both instances. I want my hunting setups to have clean paper at multiple distances but I could care less if that is the case for a target arrow. I want true center shot and creep tune from both.
I'm not moving a D-Loop or rest to get mine to hit together. They both hit within an inch or less of each other.
