help needed bare shaft tuning

[kwyk styk shooter]

I'm trying to bare shaft tune my 60# cari-bow wolverine. I think I have the proper arrow lenth because it's flying straight from side to side. My issue is that my arrow nock is flying high. According to solve this problem i should lower my nock on the bow. I tried that little by little but it doesn't solve it. I end up bringing it to far down until my arrows flies out of wack. so i end up back where i started. I have the same bow at 52# and i tuned that one perfected. my arrows are eastons full metal jackets 400's, brass insert and 300gr tip. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

[Jake Diebolt]

Could be something with your release, or maybe a slightly too stiff arrow?

[The Whittler]

Have you tried bringing your nock point up.

[JimB]

I think trying to raise the nock is a good idea.The other thing is,a lot of front end weight can cause that to happen on a bare shaft.That being the case,the fletched shaft should shoot fine.

[rraming]

Try two nocking points

[Tim]

Try using a piece of leather on the shelf.   For years I used Velcro and had the same issues.   For some reason a harder shelf surface helps clean up the nock high.  This was a trick Allen Shafer taught me....  

[Looper]

I agree with Rraming. If you're not using two knocking points, I'd bet your arrow is sliding down the string upon release and contacting the shelf.

[Tim]

Yep...two nocking points is huge.  I didn't notice that comment the first time through the thread.

[Tav]

I have the same issue with my recurve.  No matter what I did I had knock high.  I think it is my release but don't know.  My solution....I put a bear weather rest on and can shoot bare shafts out to 40 yards and they show just barely weak.  Almost fly straight.  I have two knock points also.

[NBK]

What's your draw length?  Do you cant the bow when you shoot?  Just thinking that a 60# bow with 400's with over 300gr. up front in gonna be pretty weak spined and if you cant the bow much it could look like a nock issue.  Just a thought.

[kwyk styk shooter]

Thanks for the advise guys I've never heard of having nocking points. I'm going to give that a try. Mike my draw lenght is probably around 27inchs maybe a hair under and my arrows are 28 1/4 inchs long

[kawika b]

Originally posted by Tim:
Try using a piece of leather on the shelf.   For years I used Velcro and had the same issues.   For some reason a harder shelf surface helps clean up the nock high.  This was a trick Allen Shafer taught me....      

Soft (or soft enough for tuning purposes) on the side/strikeplate and hard and slick for the shelf for me.

[JamesKerr]

You should have at least one nock point above the arrow. Take a look at this website for the easiest and probably most effective way to bare shaft tune.  http://bowmaker.net/tuning.htm