timed, tuned, trusted
Ever heard the saying ‘make it count’?
Whether it’s in sports, hunting, or some sort of performance… people often make that statement to encourage doing your best. Well, your best bowhunting will ‘make it count’ when it’s accompanied by your most confident self. Confidence in your equipment, strategy, and ultimately the ability to make a vital shot is the key for success in the woods. Here are a few things to note on maintaining confidence in your equipment:
1) A timed bow is an efficient bow.
Ensuring that your bows cams (if dual cam) are rotating at the same time and contacting the cables/limb stops at the same time is critical to straight arrow flight. This matters because nock travel matters. If one cam is early, then that cam is generating energy sooner and causing your string to load unevenly resulting in the nock to respond to that cams drive first. You’ll never have a ‘plumb’ arrow going downrange unless your cams are timed perfect. Solo cams need to be set to ‘spec’ and we’ll cover the rest next.
2) A tuned bow is an accurate bow.
Ensuring that your bow is tuned is critical to stacking consistent groups with your field tips and your broadheads (fixed or mechanicals). You should do this by first paper tuning and making sure your ‘tear’ is a perfect bullet hole with even fletching marks. Better yet, paper tune with a bare shaft and get a bullet hole that way. To tune see the diagram below.
Once you have a timed and tuned bow, verify that tuning and timing with bare shafts and broadheads on the range.
3) A trusted bow is a deadly bow.
Now that you’ve built the confidence of timing and tuning, it’s time to make the system tested and trusted. This means shooting your bow often. And I mean not just from a standing position in the yard, but also from your stand or saddle set up as well. There’s no practice like true simulated situations.
One last tip on trusted… shoot deer when you know it’s a perfect situation. And do that a lot. Shooting deer efficiently, no matter their size or score, will make you a better bowhunter. Nobody wants to whiff on a giant buck because they never actually executed their job on multiple deer kills in the first place to build tested confidence.
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