My first bareshafting...lookin for guidance

[Briar Friar]

Please.

First ever round.

[Briar Friar]

3/8" nock point.

Guides says lower nock point...but...I think Im too low to begin with.

[KenWood]

At that close you may lower it 1/16" and see what that does. They are sticking in pretty straight even though I don't pay a whole lot of attention to that. One thing I do pay attention to is if the shafts are stuck in way nock high. That and a tick sound would let you know if you're too low.

[Black Dog]

I'd raise your nock an 1/8th. How far you shooting from? Pretty good grouping.

[Briar Friar]

Im shooting at 15 yds right handed three under. It seems my fletched have a slight barrel roll to the left even though right helical...I may be wrong. I can see the bareshaft kick high then levels upon impacting the target. My target is the cardboard appliance box with a beat-to-hell Stinger II bag inside it.

I was feeling a bold adjustment to the nocking point up to 1/2"...but was pondering if it might be too bold. Blackdog...you gave me a warm fuzzy about my thought process. I trust PigThumpers thoughts too. I think Ill go down a smidge then go boldly up if impact gets worse or doesnt change.

I love the quote from A&H Archery..."If things got worse, you went the wrong way!"

[EnW]

I don't bare shaft tune, but I do shoot three under and my nocking points are much higher because of it. Mine are right at 3/4"

[fwood]

I'd raise the nock point to 1/2" and tie on a second nock point under the arrow and see if that kick goes away. Sounds like too low a setting and hard contact on the shelf. Looking pretty good grouping.

[BowBuddy]

I think you need more practice and tightening up your groups, aim at the same spot.

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[shortstroke 91]

I'd leave the nock you have right where it is and tie one on above it at 3/4". put your arrow between the 2 and see what you get.
I'm a 3 under guy and most of mine are right around the 3/4 to 7/8 high.

[RickBarbee]

I don't know if this will help much, but here goes.

I always start my bare shaft tuning up at 5 yards
I only use 4 arrows. 2 fletched, and 2 bare shaft.

While I am looking at arrow angles in the target, I am primarily looking for arrow grouping. Unless you have a good non direction foam target, the target butt itself will cause some arrow kick as they penetrate. Couple that with any form flaw, and it's tough to go by arrow attitude/angle in the target alone.

I never move from nocking point to arrow spine, or vice versa until I am fairly satisfied I have the one at the time set, or at least fairly close to set.

Where the nocking point is concerned, I always start with it obviously high, and bring it down until I get what I am looking for. Then I go on down until I start seeing something I don't like, and then back up until it's like I want it again.

Once I am happy at 5 yards I move back to 10. Once happy at 10 I move back to 15. Usually by the time I am finished at 15 I'm good to go, but I'll still shoot at least back to 20 just to make sure.

Last, but not least. If you cant your bow to shoot, that cant should always be taken into the consideration of your tune. The picture I hope explains what I mean by that.

Rick

[Black Dog]

Definetly tie a nock point underneath, that should help. You shooting off shelf or rest?

[Briar Friar]

Shootin shelf. Tying a second has been in my mind...never knew of such a method until Bisch suggested it on another thread recently.

5/16" nock...kick was high...very similar to yesterdays 3/8"

[Briar Friar]

Accidentally went to 5/8"- 9/16" and not intended 1/2". A bit of conundrum is whether to go where groove is wore in felt or where it would be new.

[Briar Friar]

Went to 1/2" nock...floating in felt but above groove bottom...right handed

[Black Dog]

Post a pic of your shelf from the string side. If you have a wide shelf, sometimes the arrow will bump/kick off of it as it flexes around the bow. As said, I'd tie a nock underneath, bet that cleans it up.