Greyarcher1 bare shaft method

[britt]

Has anybody seen the bare shaft method Greyarcher1 teaches on you tube? What do you think? Seems too simple?

[babs]

That's how I like to tune. One change at a time and a little cut here. And than try fletched arrows to see if they group together.

[Wheels2]

I like bare shaft tuning.  I shoot them with a bit of tape near the nock to simulate the fletching weight.  I shoot them indoors under the lights and watch the arrow flight as well as shooting them with fletched arrows.  If I can get them flying straight, they shoot with fletched arrows.
I start full length and change out the points first.  Then is I have to do so, I cut them a little at a time.  Sometimes you can cut a fair amount before it affects spine.  I recently cut my GoldTips from 32" to 30 1/2" without any noted change.  Usually that much makes for a change in spine effects.

[oldgoat]

His chart helped a lot for me. He got some other stuff that pretty good too.

[Lone Ranger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME9s6Si1pBE&index=32&list=PL81D485C18F72A9CD

L.R.

[dragonheart]

I take a fletched arrow and then cut off just the feather and the leave the quill to use as the "bare shaft".

[britt]

Well so far with bare shafting here is my results. Set-up lefty 45# at 30in. draw, 64in., R/D longbow, not cut to center. My CE 150's with 125gr. point, way to weak. Even after I cut them down to 30.5 in. Still to weak. So I tried a 400 spine shaft cut to 31.5 with 145gr. tip, flew like a dart. To my surprise and set-up I needed a stiffer arrow. The charts say use a 500 spine shaft. But 400 flew very well and my bow is SUPER quiet too.

[Bjorn]

I only shoot wood and like bareshafting..... but I do the math first- you can use Stu's calculator too to get into the range. Anything under 20 yds just does not work for me-badness does not show up unless you are off by a fair bit. Also how can you see your shafting in flight? I generally have someone look for me-and I for them, the shafts are traveling too fast for me to see them. I bareshaft out to 30 yds-then I am done.