How Much High Tear is too Much?

[clinometer]

I posted this in the general archery section, maybe I can get some input here.

http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=546121

Thanks,

[red44]

Yup, could be a bounce up. Try a bare shaft? Powder the fletching or rest.

[jealous143]

My budy and I also shoot 07 Tributes. We both shoot 70# and 5575 gold tip pro hunters 29". I have fast mods and he has smooth mods. We both have an extream downward angles from our nocks through our wisker biskits. We both have 1/2 inch tears (upwards). When we tear left or right it is basically hand torque. In the end, our FP's and BH's hit where we aim and our arrows have no problems during flight. We figured that if the arrow flys well and all of our arrows hit in the same place then shooting bullets, while important, is not all that matters.[

[crazyjz]

If you guys are achieving great results, have broad heads hitting where your field points are and visibly decent arrow flight, I would not worry about paper tuning.

Paper tuning is a great way to identify and fine tune out problems with bow set up issues. Torquing the bow will cause crazy and not repeating tears that nobody can tune out by making adjustments to the bow.

If you're just curious and have to know if your bow is tuned, let a friend or professional shoot your bow through paper and see what the tear looks like. Either way, it won't matter because they are not the ones shooting your bows when the deer walk out!

[minnow]

I've run into the same issue with a WB in that I've had to move my nock point up to cure BHs that were hitting low. I would love to see a super slow motion video of an arrow being shot through a WB. I would bet that in some nock low situations the arrow is kicked back into a point low orientation by the full containment set up.

[Ode1891]

I am NOT BASHING the WB at all. It's definately a proven device. But, I was having all sorts of tuning issues and after going to a WB, I found that the WB would straighten out the arrow on release giving a good paper tear but very inconsistent flight. I went back to other rests and was then able to find and fix a couple big problems with my bow. What I'm saying is that I cannot see how anybody can actually tune a bow with a WB since by it's design it makes the arrow straighten out when it passes through the rest.

If you are hitting the same spot with FP and BHs, and you are satisfied with the flight, and you like the WB, I'd leave it alone. Worse case, you may be losing a little speed and energy "IF" the WB is straightening out the arrow. Look at the bristles on the WB. If the disturbance to the bristles appears evenly for each vane, the WB correction is probably not too severe. In my case, I had two real good vane marks and none for the vane on the right. You may have the same issue top or bottom.

All this is only my experience and my opinion.