Found this video and can't thank you enough, I thought bare-shaft arrow tuning was beyond me until I watched this. Amazingly well presented.

And I’m saving this video… one of the best explanations of bare shaft tuning on KZfaq.

Your points about the fletching weight makes good sense, and your explanation of tuning the bow/arrow is very easy to follow and understand. Thank you for sharing this valuable info.

Electrical tape you psycho. Love it. I'll try it next time. Never thought it would make enough of a difference with my skill level. But every bit helps. Great intel.

Thought I had heard it all… nope, just learned something new (electrical tape to mimic fletching)… love it… excited to go back through my tunes (perfect arrow flight is so satisfying)…. and will definitely pass this on (and give you credit)… thank you!

Best video on tuning I’ve ever come across. Preciate it Trevor. Still fightin with those Easton Carbon Legacy shafts.

Thanks you very much for the great information! Excellent video on bare shaft tuning.

Thanks for this video. I did some tuning as you suggested and my nocks were all high at any range. I started at 5 yards and when they were totally correct nock wise. I moved back all the way to 25 yards and dead on! Left to right corrected to by getting more consistent follow through which is something I have neglected over the years. Moving my hand straight back to complete follow through has really helped.

At long last - an Archer with intelligence and the communicative skills to explain Bare Shaft Tuning. Very well explained. Thanks my friend 🙏

Explained very well, Thanks for the detailed video 👍

Awesome video, gonna help out a lot of archers. Thank you Trevor

That was a very good explanation of arrow tuning. All things considered, if your release is not nearly the same every time it can change all of this, Got to have the fundamentals down and backtension release. Great video

Wow!! Makes so much sense. Thank you!

I have discussed this with compound bow guys and they look at me like I came from another world. “Man just use the spine chart!”, they say. It is amazing how many hunters shoot at animals and don’t understand arrow/bow dynamics. I hunt both with a longbow and compound and my early trad days helps me. What also is nice about a compound is I have the option of adjusting poundage on the bow to tune the bow to the arrow rather than the arrow to the bow.

Sounds simple. Stay safe my friend. God bless you 🙏.

very good information, thank you for making this video

Thank you. Will give it a go

.. love the buckles, very subtle flex :D

That’s pretty good stuff Bub

thanks for the yardages, The one thing with most tuning vids is a lack of yardages to work from. but mostly the difference from what I do is I don't bare shaft. I build the arrow less the tip. Shoot it with just the taper cut into the tip until the arrow shoots stiff then add the point . If it's week I can remove the point shorten and continue or got to a different weight tip. beyond that it much the same process . Good to know I'm not to far off in what I do.

Dang I never thought of adding the tape

Brilliant

You should do a video on how to tune for feather clearance. I can’t find any videos really talking about that. Plus is sucks when you think you’ve got a perfect tune then after a while that one feather is worn out.

100% agree ... all the high FOC nonsense is getting ridiculous. That crowd always brings up Spears and javelins which do not have broadheads out in front acting as wings. I have had a lot better arrow flight since I went back to shooting normal FOC on my arrows. And oh by the way I'm not having any trouble with penetration either. We have forgotten so much about archery in these latter days. KE is made up of two components, speed and mass..... We don't forsake one and just worry about the other. A good balance is always best.... No matter how much fairy dust you think you have.

Nice one

Thanks so much! I just checked my tune...my nock was too low and my arrows were too stiff...

Tuning question - I've never had trouble tuning bare shaft arrows that don't have a wrap. But now I'm trying to bare shaft with a wrap because I want to shoot a wrap on these new arrows. I have a reflex deflex longbow and it's cut about 1/8" out of center. My draw length is about 26" and the bow is 50# @26" . I'm trying to tune a gold tip traditional 500 spine with 300 grains up front. No matter what length I try I can't get these arrow to show anything other than stiff when I shoot. I'm a left handed shooter and I'm getting tail left flight every time. I even tried adding more than 300 grains up front and still got the same result. I've tuned GT traditional 500s out of this same bow without a wrap and they tuned perfect at 27". The only other thing different is that my old string was 12 strands of D97 and I made a new one with 14 strands of D97 because it fits my GT nocks better. According to physics I would expect that somewhere between 27 to 28 or maybe 28.5" the arrow should tune. I even tried a 29.5" arrow with 300 up front and still got stiff spine results. I'm holding the bow vertical and doing my best to get a clean release every time. Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong or what the problem could be? Do you think I would need to move to a 600 spine? 600 seems like it should be too weak out of a 50# bow with 300 up front. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I can't figure it out.

Good video

Will this help save my marriage?

Thank you. Great video and well explained. I do have a ?, do you incorporate Nock-tuning into this process for ea arrow?

Do you shoot your bow as straight up/down as possible while bareshafting or keep the natural cant that i usually shoot with (1-2 o’clock cant). Also, any info on tuning ilf? I’ve had nothing but problems with the ilf i have even if tillered equal, going off equal, doesnt seem to stay consistant. Thanks!

Can you talk about ILF tiller adjustment and the bare shaft tuning steps.?

I would be struggling to hit the target at 30 yards.

Very well explained , I do have a question as to what type of target is best for tuning your arrow?

I always tune my arrow in a similar way, but my form is still so erratic that over 10 yard I get unreadable results. once i literally blown up the paper tune stander :D

I used to always have nock high readings until messing around with my finger pressure on the string. I shoot split and noticed too much string pressure on my top finger cause a nock high flight.

For a quiet forgiving hunting bow do you reccomend a black widow pch 60" or a toelke whip 10x 64-68" ? Struggling picking between the two, would be used for whitetail outta a ground blind while sitting /treestand. Thank you.

If I have a bare shaft that is hitting dead straight at 10 yds but is impacting the target 4 inches to the right of where I’m aiming , what’s my problem? Thanks for the video

Anyone have any tips for getting my release consistent enough so that I can tune?

If you string walk, do you need to shoot at the same level on the string as you walk back when you are initially tuning?

I'm a little late to the game, but I'm wonderig what would you advise for string walkers? I find that my nocking point tune is wildly different depending if I'm shooting a 5, 10 or 15yd crawl. I paper tune at 5 yards with a 15 yard crawl, but said string walk is going to vary wildly depending on distance whenever I'm on range or sump shooting

Hi great video! i am now bareshaft tuning my arrows. But here's the thing: i pull the string with my right hand, but place my arrow also on the right side of my bow (it's a double recurved horsebow). Does that mean that for me all is inverted?

What would you say is too much foc?

Interesting point on too much foc. What range would you say I should keep it under / not worry about too much foc if I'm under say 20%? I get a lot of low right (off group from the fletched arrows) with the bare shaft with my constantly tinkered ilf setup and I never bothered to correct that unless I have to hunt with it. How picky are you personally with arrow tuning say with a practice bow off-season not competing or hunting just form practice and keeping up the muscle memory?

Why not start at 30 yrds and save time and energy?

Quick question.. so do you have to bare shaft tune every arrow or fine tune one arrow and then cut the others to the same length? Thanks

I will do a KZfaq explanation of arrow flight one day , because all these vids don't understand true arrow flight , your close but the archery world doesn't understand .......Energy and mass when converted to motion , at the correct bare shaft flight , to distance to impact your knock should be 4 degrees knock high on a boss at 90 degrees ....Bow energy......arrow mass.....graverty....distance .the 4 needs to work in harmony .