paper tuning

[gigit]

i've read several articles about the benefits of paper tuning. but then my bow tech guy here says that with his laser tuning he does on bows should suffice and actually prove to tune better. is this true? and also, what is "super tuning" that i've been hearing tossed around here and there? thanks in advance.

[Bow 1]

I do not think laser tuning is better. If your talking about a laser center shot gage. All that does is gets your arrow lined up center of the string. Paper tuning tells exactly what the arrow is doing. I start with the laser then fine tune with paper, I start at about five feet and work my way back to about 20 yards. This way you are seeing an actual diagram of what the arrow is doing. I believe after you have it flying good back to 20 you have worked out all the kinks.

Super tuning can mean many things, depending on who you talk to, you got several methods, including the paper tuning I just mentioned, some people do bare shaft groups, tiller tuning, there are many more things a person with the knowledge can do to a bow. Take this Guy called Crackers, you send the bow to him and he super tunes it, new strings etc, and shoot better than new. He makes good strings that is for sure. I prefer to do my own tuning.

I suppose my point on this is until you shoot the arrow and see how it is doing with the bow, nothing else will compare to that. So hypothetically you could line everything up set it perfect and it should shoot true, but that is false, ever arrow and bow setup is different not to mention the shooter. So nothing will compare to shooting the bow and getting the results from paper or group tuning, or whatever method you use.

Keith