French Tuning A Bow

French Tuning A Bow

Tommy Allen
Tommy Allen
If you own a bow you understand the frustrations of paper tuning, this is Matt Rice with Sportsman Spotlight. Today we are going to be talking about paper tuning vs. French tuning your bow. If you haven't already, now's the time to dust off that bow and get it tuned in. Paper tuning is a great way to get your arrows dialed in, but it can take some time and usually results in a bit of frustration. Today we have avid outdoorsman Tommy Allen who's going to explain how this process works.

Tommy "Matt, thanks for having me. You know there's a lot of different ways to tune a bow. The most common is paper tuning, and this one that we found is paper tuning and then this one we found was French tuning. I tried this with mine last year, and it worked great. Really the concept is, you have a string down with a weight, in front of a target and you set up 3 yards away and you try to shoot of the string. Depending on which side your arrow ends up on the string you adjust your sites, from there once you get that dialed in, you step back to 10 yards and depending on what side your arrow is on the string you adjust your rest. You continue back and forth and back and forth until you get this dialed in, and what this does, it allows your arrow. Very similar to paper tuning, and looking for where you tares hit the paper and adjusting from there. This is just another technique that you can do at a very short distance just to get a rough idea of how to get your bow dialed in, and I did it with mine and it worked out tremendous. The main purpose of tuning is to keep your arrow from tail whipping, and that keeps a true flight down range, which will give you more success in the field."

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