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Bare shaft tuning shows you exactly what your bow is doing wrong. Follow these 7 steps to read the results and get perfect arrow flight and broadhead accuracy.
Tag Archives: broadhead tuning
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Arrow weight and FOC aren’t separate settings — they pull against each other. Here’s how mass and forward balance work together to shape speed, penetration, and forgiveness.
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Quick Answer: Fixed-blade broadheads have no moving parts, penetrate heavy bone better, and hold up on big game and low-poundage setups. Mechanical (expandable) broadheads fly closer to your field points and open a wider wound channel, which is why most whitetail hunters shooting 60+ pounds prefer them. Choose fixed for elk, heavy bone, and bows […]
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Quick Answer: Paper tuning a compound bow means shooting an arrow through a suspended sheet of paper from about 6 to 8 feet away and reading the tear it leaves. A clean round hole means your arrow is flying straight. A tear with tails pointing up, down, left, or right tells you exactly which way […]
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Quick Answer: A fixed blade broadhead penetrates deeper, holds up against heavy bone, and forgives nothing in your tune. A mechanical broadhead flies like a field point and cuts a wider hole, but loses 2 to 4 inches of penetration on most shots and breaks more often when it hits a scapula. For bone-heavy game […]
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Bareshaft tuning is the fastest honest read you can get on a compound bow. Strip the fletching off two identical arrows, shoot them next to a fletched group at 10 yards, and the unfletched shaft tells you exactly which way the bow is fighting your form. Paper tuning catches gross errors. Bareshaft tuning catches the […]
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Mechanical vs fixed broadheads compared on penetration, accuracy, blood trails, and 4 more trade-offs that decide which broadhead wins your hunt.
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Broadhead tuning made simple: a 6-step sequence to make hunting heads group with field points out to 50 yards before opening day.
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Fixed vs mechanical broadheads: real flight, penetration, and tuning tradeoffs no manufacturer admits. Pick the right head for your bow and game.
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Arrow Weight and FOC Explained: The Physics Behind Penetration, Forgiveness, and Flight
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Arrow weight and FOC shape everything from flight stability to penetration. Learn how to measure, calculate, and tune both for your bow and your goals.
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