tune bow to arrow

[nhbuck1]

how do you go about doing this? isnt this the way rick welch tunes his bows?

[damascusdave]

With 42 bows I just keep trying until I find a bow that likes an arrow.

DDave

[Sam McMichael]

I mostly tune the arrow to the bow. Over the years I have determined what arrow specs my bows like, so most tuning is very minimal.

[BAK]

1.  adjust nock height
2.  adjust thickness of side plate
3.  Adjust brace height
4.  Change rest or side plate material (hard vs. soft)

[nhbuck1]

what does soft versus hard do ? how do yhou adjust elevation so it hits where your looking?

[rraming]

Take it as far as you want now guys are micro-tuning. Getting good flight with bare shaft around 20 yards, then micro tuning back to 30+ yards - these are ILF rigs with plunger buttons etc.
Once you get a shaft bareshafted around 20, you are good. If your broadheads are shooting high or low you can barely move nock to fix it (move nock in opposite direction you want it to go). If left or right then adjust brace height a bit (confusing but nock right is stiff, so shafts goes left caused by larger brace height, so to move them right, decrease brace height and vice-versa, might have even confused myself there)- thats all I know, I dont spin a plunger button thingy. I'm sure there are youtube video's on this. I think one of the Master of the Barebows talked about it.
Try this
 http://www.acsbows.com/bareshaftplaning.html

[Covey]

Ken Beck, owner of Black Widow Bows, has a pretty decent video on bare shaft tuning. I don't know about tuning the bow to the arrow, I always tune the arrow to the bow.

[the rifleman]

I tune my arrows to my bow, but I've learned to tune my bow to hit where I look.

[Friend]

Primarily tune my arrows to the bow.

Often shoot several completely different arrow specs form the virtually identical bow setupthroughout the range of arrows.

[slowbowjoe]

"I tune my arrows to my bow, but I've learned to tune my bow to hit where I look."

I tink along these lines. Certainly, tune the arros to the bow. But... the archer needs to be tuned to the bow that the arrow is tuned to.

[warpedarrow]

1. adjust nock height
2. adjust thickness of side plate
3. Adjust brace height
4. Change rest or side plate material (hard vs. soft)

and when this doesn't yield decent flight, tune the arrows

[Stumpkiller]

What Warpedarrow says . . . though I never change the stiffness of the plate.  I always use a paper match or, lately, a length of Nylon wire tie, under a leather riser pad.  Seal fur on the shelf.