Fine Tune a Recurve Bow | Get Better Groups with Fine Tuning Recurve | Archery Tuning Series Ep 11

FYI fine tune at the distance that matters most to you. If you are shooting 70m rounds do it there. For indoors shoot at least 30 arrows per change on new target faces and turn them over to see your group spread. Field archers I’d do it at the longest distance.

Great video, well done

Jake do you tune your bow in this manner before tuning your arrows?
At what stage in the process do you consider one’s string choice?
I appreciate your comments.

I really wish you practice this on 70m if possible and we really want to see from soft to stiff pluger groups

Great guide. In my club we have indoor only 18 meter targets.
Do do thing is to do Fine Tune a Recurve Bow in 18 meter. Can it be less? as 10 meter?

Thank you Jake. Great video again.
But a question. If I move my rest up or down wont it be problem for the center pressing by the plunger?
Is better if I move the nocking point up/down or not?

Jake,
How can I get your books on tuning

Thanks Jake, this is brilliant something just clicked during your explanation. Can't wait for the range to open tomorrow.

Is this method finding also the center shot? At least the right -left? Walking back tuning and this modify the same. Don't they?

A hypothesis on how Fine-Tuning achieves better groups despite seemingly deviating from the Perfect Tune:
The Perfect Tune has the most forgiveness, as the bareshaft arrow flight is equivalent to the fletched arrow, thus the fletchings have the maximum capacity of arrow flight correction potential (highest margin of forgiveness).
However, this margin of forgiveness is distributed evenly along the vertical and horizontal axes of the arrow flight. It is likely that the archer's technique itself has a biased error distribution.

For example, maybe the archer tends to expand through the clicker a little bit too hastily when under pressure, causing minor increases in draw-length and subsequently increases the dynamic draw weight, resulting in a weak-high bias in the grouping pattern.
Theoretically, Fine-Tuning would then find that a slightly stiffer plunger and a slightly higher nocking point (or slightly lower arrow rest position) would have the best groupings - these two adjustments are basically compensating for the weak-high grouping bias.

So overall, Fine-Tuning reduces the margin of forgiveness (due to deviating from the Perfect Tune), but redistributes it according to the error bias of the archer, providing the most forgiveness when it counts for the archer, and therefore results in better groupings.

Just theory-crafting, no evidence nor citations.

Brilliant 👍 video aswome thanks Jake

I think I managed to follow what you were saying about rest/nocking point, but is it possible for you to actually demonstrate?

Hello Jake, I really appreciate your videos mate, brilliant, thankyou!
I am having a problem with arrows consistency hitting right ( I'm a right handed barebow shooter) and wonder if I should adjust my sideplate out? My arrows are slightly stiff now so maybe byhaving a close to centre shot setup is causing this issue?
Cheers, Jason

That was a great lesson on fine tuning. The marker is difficult to see. I would like to suggest a fatter marker

great video's.. i'm just starting at the age of 70,and am limited to a max of 20m. i'm starting with 25" riser and 22lb limbs to start with. with this method still be ok at 10 and 20m to start with ?

Very awesome and helpful video. Does the sight ever become a part of fine tuning? If so when?

Well done Jake. After several videos you are relaxing into your own personal style of presentation. It comes over very well and you have a clear and honest way of communicating.

Hi Jake,
could you please repeat how you'll adjust and compensate the change applied on the rest position?
Like in the video, if for instance you incrementally lowered the rest to narrowdown the vertical dispersion, the tip of the plunger now would touch the top half side of the arrow shaft, thus how do you get the tip to be placed again in the middle of the arrow? Just by moving up the nocking point ? Thanks!!

How about a video on how to set up a recurve sight out of the box. This is one of the things I struggled with when just starting.

Jake. I nievly always assumed that the best arrow flight would produce the tightest groups. Apparently that is not the case. Do you have a theory to explain why? Thanks in advance. Learning a ton here.

Hi Jake! Wouldnt be better if we calculate the standard deviation of the arrow positions on each axis (y for up and down or x left to right) using the data from an app like "My targets"?