Easiest Way to Tune Your Mathews Bow for Broadheads (How To)

hey guys dan pickar here with eastman's  bow hunting journal and beyond the grid tv   i'm excited about this video today because  i've wanted to do it for a long time   and what i'm going to do today is  tune a bow from right out of the box to shooting broadheads perfectly in 30 minutes so  let's not waste any time we got the matthews v331   uh bear bow we're gonna put our  components on and then head to the range   you're going to be surprised stick  with me here no paper tuning today   but we're going to get this thing  shooting perfectly i promise you   this is a QAD ultra rest integrate this is built  for matthews this is a micro adjustable rest it's   very important for the way that we're going to  tune this bow so make sure you get yourself a   good quality arrow rest do not skimp on this i love  these drop ways i don't i don't think i would ever   want to change if i had anything to say about it  because i just love these rests they're so sleek   these matthews bows they have these picatinny  rails basically and it just clamps to your   riser right there super sleek and doesn't weigh  anything so i'm going to take this outer plate   all the way off because it's just hard for you to  see otherwise we got to loosen this little screw   and then on the bow it goes okay got our rest on  we're good okay next we want to put the string   loop on because we want to set our knocking  point for our arrow so what i like to do for   a string loop i like this light colored stuff a  little bit of fluorescent just helps to see that   knocking point in low light i always try to stay  away from darker string loops just for that reason   so we're going to tie our clinch knot here  we're gonna suck that all the way down and it can be hard to know how long of a loop  that you want um you don't want to cut it too long   and have it too long or too short and have it too  short so what i do is i just go and and tie it on   with the piece of string that i have and kind  of tighten it down and that's going to kind of   give me an idea because this is going to stretch  quite a bit so what i'll do is get my scissors   i just cut it right in line with that okay and then i untie it fray the end a little bit and burn this so my length should be good and it's going to  stretch too so if it's a little tight when i start   i'm not going to get too worried about it  because it will stretch it'll work okay so this looks a little short right  now it will stretch a little bit if   if i don't like it if i want a little bit longer  one i can put another one on later but that will   stretch out nice so what i want to do now is  i want to find my knocking point and what that   means is you want your arrow to be knocked and  sitting on your bow perpendicular to the string   i like to start with doing it as  perfectly perpendicular as possible   man over the years i've learned just to  eyeball it and get it pretty darn close   so you can do that and what i'll do is i'll  just kind of get down here you always want your   arrow to be shooting through the center of your  rest bolt that's the exact center part of your   bow and so you want to set your bow up so you're  shooting right through the center of that part and   once again i'm eyeballing i'm comparing the piece  of the machined riser here from the arrow shaft   and and looking at it level and saying yeah  that's that's right through the center of   that bolt i'm looking pretty parallel right  here i would probably just run with this   but you can put your bow square on and  you can get your exact center point   by putting your bow square on and reading your  numbers here there's the exact center point   and so that's running it's actually right on right  to the center of your knocking point to there yeah   it's right there uh so let's put our sight on and  then we're gonna throw this thing in the bow press   and put our peep in and then we're headed to  the range okay we got a sight on got our rest on   let's take it out of the vice and we're going to  line up our center shot while we're at it so what   i like to do when i line up center shot once again  i'm eyeballing it i've done a lot of these so   i've kind of gotten used to doing it but what  i like to do is i knock an arrow in the resting   position and i look straight down the center  of this limb pocket bolt and i'm just looking   straight down the riser right the center  of that bolt right down at my arrow shaft   i want it to come out right down through the  center of this 740 nano dampener that's just   the center of my bow and so that's kind of  what i'm looking for as a starting location   to set my center shot in the resting position is  my arrow just passing through the center of my bow   okay to set my uh peep sight the first thing i  want to do is draw my bow back there usually is   a little blue string here to indicate help  you indicate that i took it out earlier   but what i like to do is just knock my arrow and  draw my bow make sure my grip's good anchor points   good i'll close my eyes i'll anchor i'll come down  and touch the tip of my nose to the string and   then i'll open my eye like i'm aiming and that's  exactly where i want that peep to be so i can see   a couple hairs on the string there i'm gonna have  that marked yeah there's a little hair right there   that's where i'm gonna put my peep  in so into the bow press it goes matthews makes it really easy with this style  of press there's the little notches on the   ends of the limb there they fit right  in there that's pretty much the only   way to do it the safest way to do  it so this easy press is definitely   the best press for these matthews bows so i'm  just going to crank her down until i get a little   tension on this okay so my string is pretty loose  here here's my hair right here so i'm going to   split this string there we go perfectly  in half and just tuck this peep in okay   peeps in place and then i want to go  down here to my downward cable and   i need to split that and there's there's no string  in this i just kind of mess around with it until   i have about half the amount of strands and  i'm not pulling any fibers apart or anything   and then i'm just tucking  that string in so i slowly   let my press back down i'll make sure none  of my strings and cables came off anywhere so this is good here okay guys we have the ultra  rest integrate mx installed on the bow via the   picatinny rail this is a brand new rest so we got  it in the bow press and we just strung it through   the downward traveling cable and  that's what's going to activate   the fork or the prong of the rest now this rest is  activated by tension and this arrow needs to line   up with that hash this is in the resting position  at this point but for this rest to activate and   essentially drop during the shot it has to be  starting from here with those two arrows lining up   so the question is how do we set the length of the  cord on your rest so this cord can travel through   your cable so you want to go a little bit  short and all we're going to do to set the   length the proper length on this is draw the  bow back it's that simple so we knock an arrow load our arrow and we're just  going to draw this bow and during   the draw cycle this cord is going to pull through   to the point to where this is activated and  it's going to set it to the length that we need okay there we go we're at full draw i can  see with my eyes that those two lines are   matched up so it's set at the proper  length now so now what i can do is   essentially mark this and then i'll cut  the excess off melt the end and you're set   and ready to go that's all it takes to set  the pull cord on this integrate mx now with   putting a peep in it is going to twist the string  a little bit and mess up your string loop but   you know probably i'll have to adjust this  maybe one more time if i don't have it perfectly   lined up for me at full draw a lot of times  over time on new bows the strings will stretch   and this will twist a little bit but just  like a half a twist in the main string itself   either in or away from the twist of the string  on the peep and it'll straighten it right out   so that keeps it pretty simple matthews makes it  really simple to check your timing these are your   timing holes on your cams and there's one on each  side so you look squarely through that timing hole   and you can see your cable through there and you  want it to be passing through the center if not   close to that timing hole and you want it to  match on the other side so i check one side   and then i check the other this one is going to be  let's see it is not quite as advanced as this one   just by a tiny mount just a fraction of a hair  so i'm probably going to shoot it as is it's   really really close and if i have any issues when  i'm at the range i can always come back to this   and put a twist in my cable we're splitting  hairs here it may even just be both right on   the money all the matthews bows that i've got  coming from the factory looking through these   timing holes they're usually very close i mean the  guys do a good job at the factory setting these up   for the timing to be dang near spot on if not  perfect so i've messed with them a little bit over   the years setting up matthew's bows but not not  much i mean i'm comfortable with taking this to   the field and seeing what i can do so let's go out  to the range and we're going to go shoot targets   no paper tuning here that's a wasted step  for bow hunting we're going to go right to   sighting this bow in and then broadhead tuning  that's going to be the key to this tune today  alright guys we're out here at the range now we just  set this bow up uh we haven't done anything uh but   put the rest and the sight on and a peep on other  than that it's not tuned at all the first thing   we want to talk about is the arrow your arrow  selection this is a 70 pound bow 29 inch draw   so i'm shooting a 350 spine arrow 350  300 spine either one of those will work   technically the 350 might be a little bit under  spine for it but i cut them short 26 and a half   inch carbon to carbon on this so it's a little  bit short and that'll increase your stiffness as   well but with matthews over the years i've had  zero problems tuning 300 spine and 350 spine   so i'm not too worried about it so we have our  arrow selection now we want to look at our sight   so we knock our arrow and i'm just eyeballing  here and once again i'm i'm looking at the plane   of my arrow i'm looking down the string and seeing  where my sight lines up and i can see that my pin   is probably a half an inch in so i need to move my  sight housing to the left out a little bit and get   it more in line with my arrow and i'll show you  exactly what i mean here in a second okay so i'm   just going to loosen this i'm going to move this  sight housing out oh probably a couple notches   pull it out i can see from the factory it's not  quite where it needs to be so i'm out two notches   now once again i'm lining up the string to  the sight i'm almost lined up on the same plane   so i'm going to go another notch notch  and a half right there that's dead center   one more so i want my pin just to the outside of  the same plane as my string and my arrow just to   the left of it because with all compound bows  you're always going to have that lateral torque   meaning you have your cable guard you're going to  have side pressure on your bow and so when you're   at full draw the bow is going to be torqued just a  little bit like this it's going to just be in like   this and that's going to bring your sight your  string and your arrow all lined up and that's how   you get your left and right sorted out so i can  see by just looking at it when i line up my string   that my sight my actual pins are just to the left  of the string and the arrow on that plane okay so   my site is ballpark i have it all the way to  the top which is going to be at the top of my   sight tape or 20 yards so i have my my site set  all the way to the top it's probably going to be   pretty close somewhere right there um once again  we're just this is our first initial shot so   we're kind of uh we're not guessing but  we're going to get close and make sure   that we don't shoot over the target once again  we're just we just want to get this arrow on the   target that's our goal right now uh i drew this  back when i set my peep there the string loop   stretched out nicely that's perfect for me that's  exactly the length that i like my string loops   i like them shorter than i do long but there's  still enough room there to have flex and give   if your hand's tweaking or it's off just a little  bit so that stretched out pretty nice when it   comes down to getting a perfect broadhead tune  your form has to be it has to be perfect if you   want consistency so your grip i hate to even call  it a grip because you're not gripping it think of   it as this meaty part of your hand you're pushing  the bow away from you you're not death gripping it   so you're pushing the bow away from you you do not  want to over grip the bow if you look here this   would this would be over gripping you're going to  hit your arm you're going to be torquing the bow   what i like to tell new archers is this inside  line of the grip i do not like it to cross this   crease this way this is the no go zone in here  for gripping a bow you want that grip on the   meaty part of your thumb right here and so i like  to put it right up in there imagine that you have   a steel rod running down your arm and it's coming  out the palm of your hand that's where you want   your pressure so i'm i got my release knocked meaty  part of my thumb have the pressure i'm drawing   back good anchor point right on the corner of  my jaw touching the tip of my nose to the string   and my peep is right there that's exactly  where i want it i want it dead center   uh you can see that twist a little bit we can  solve that later when we go back to the bow press   so i'm going to move up just a little bit come  up with me once again this is the initial shot   i don't want my arrow to go flying i know it's  going to be close we're like six yards here so   i'm going to draw back i'm kind of looking i mean  you can look down your arrow shaft it looks pretty   good so i'm going to kind of aim in the center  holy smokes i hit about where i was aiming so   it's pretty close to being right on so that's  like six yards let's step back to 15 and see where   we're at okay we're going to shoot a couple more  just to make sure we're sighted in we're sighting   in with field tips right now that's what we're  doing we want to get close as we can to the center   when we'll adjust our site accordingly  got my trusty matrix target down there   you can see i rotated my modules i rotated the  hexes so i have a nice fresh hex in the center so we're a little low i'm going to shoot one more   so when it comes to sighting in a bow you want  to move your front sight to the arrow to where   you're shooting so we're a little low we're a little  right hopefully i'll get a similar result here   same spot okay so i'm going to drop my sight down  a little bit and then i need to go to the right   so i need to come back to my site housing  here and i'm just going a whisker to the right   so there just in a little bit tighten that  back up and we'll go get our arrows and   we're gonna shoot again uh this is  round two of our field tip shooting   see where we're at we made some slight  adjustments we should be close to center now that's in the white one more  just for consistency sake   see how my peeps rotating i'm just gonna have to  deal with that now and kind of twist it but i'll   have to put a twist in the string when i get back  to the shop that won't matter too much right now okay that's in the white too okay so our bow's  sighted in we're 15 yards we're probably going   to step back to 20 yards and then we're going  to tune the bow we're going to shoot broadheads   and get this thing tuned perfectly and ready to go  bow hunting with all right guys we're going right   to the broadhead tune so the first thing i like to  do is get myself four arrows i have two field tips   and i have two cut on contact broadheads here  high profile this is what i'm looking for   i'm looking for a high profile broadhead i'm  looking for something that has a lot of blade   because basically what happens is when it comes  to broadhead tuning is your veins steer your arrow   and a big cut on contact broadhead also  steers your arrow and so what happens is   if your arrow is leaving your bow knock  left knock right knock high or knock low   the broad head is going to magnify that  imperfection my arrow leaves the bow knock   left and it travels down 20 yards and hits the  target it's going to hit to the right and so   this big broadhead the bigger the broadhead you  have the more it's going to steer to the right   because the knock the veins are to the left and  that can be a rest position or it can be a spine   issue depending on what the circumstances are so  that's why i have a big cut on contact broadhead   is it magnifies the imperfections in my arrow  so first thing i'm going to do is shoot two   cut on contact broadheads and then shoot two  field tips okay here we go broadhead 20 yards okay there's one i'm an inch and a half  right of center which isn't bad but   we'll see what this iron will does but like  i said from before if i'm hitting to the   right it's probably suggesting that i have  a little bit knock left coming out of my bow so now i'm going to shoot my two  field tips so this bow is sided in   with field tips so this should be  right on as well second field tip okay i can tell my broadheads are  hitting a little bit to the right   so i'm gonna go get my arrows and  we're gonna make an adjustment   okay so this is the fun part here and this  is why we have a micro adjustable rest   so we have broadhead impact to the  right once again that suggests that my   knock is left as it's exiting the bow if my arrow  was hitting to the left it would be knock right   if it was hitting low i'd be knock high and of  course if it's hitting high i'd be knocked low   so it's telling me the imperfections in in my  arrow in my tune so all i have to do is make my   rest adjustment and we're on to the next step okay  so this is the beauty of a micro adjustable rest   my up and down is good my left and right  has issues so this screw is going to untighten my prong and this knob is  going to give me the adjustment the   left and right adjustment that i'm going to  need now with my broadheads hitting right   that means my arrow is coming off the bow to the  left so the idea here is i want to bring the point   of the arrow back to the left since my broadheads  are hitting right i want to bring it back to the   left so what i'm going to do is move my rest to  the left and this is a really small amount we're   talking a 64th of an inch this is just a the  smallest amount but it makes a big difference   so we're going to go one two clicks to the left  and we're gonna tighten our prong back up and   with this that's gonna bring the front of our  arrow back to the left and hopefully correct   our knock left problem now if you have  two corrections that you need to make   if you're hitting say low and to the right  you want to do one correction at a time so   i want to get my left and right solved first  and once i get that in line with my field tips   then i'm going to correct my up and down luckily  in my case we just have a left issue so it's   just one movement so we made our adjustments  let's shoot our broadheads first once again   shoot your broadheads first so you don't ruin  your arrows and let's see where we're hitting that's a bullseye that's in the white so  what that does is just by that small amount   it's taking that lot knock left out and   it's it's basically making your broad heads  group with your field tips that's when you know   you have the tune is when your broadheads group  with your field tips they hit in the same spot oop i hit my other arrow you don't want  to do that hopefully i didn't ruin it   that's a good sign though so there's two broad  heads and i fully expect these two field tips   to hit right in there with them yep and so making that 64th of an inch  adjustment it's not enough to really move   the impact of your arrow as a whole and even  if it did that's when you would move your sight   after the fact but since i only had to do two  clicks to the left that's such a small amount that   it didn't really affect my point of impact so i'm  not going to have to move my sight but if it did   after you tune your arrows after you're broadhead  tuned then you would move your sight and bring it   back to center that's right in the white so  there you go tuning a bow can be very easy   it can also be very difficult but if you keep the  the mindset of it simple and skip the paper tuning   once again we're tuning for bow hunting uh if  you're a target shooter you're not going to shoot   broadheads paper tuning is great but since i'm a  bow hunter i want my broadheads to be perfectly   tuned perfectly accurate i go right from the shop  right to the range and get my broadheads tuned and   now i know my bow is perfectly tuned and so with  my experience with helical arrow fletchings i   can shoot any broadhead i want now and have field  tip accuracy especially at distance and so for me   there's no excuse to not get a cut on contact or  a fixed head not to shoot because i'm broadhead   tuned they hit with my field tips and if your  bows tuned they will hit with your field tips   every time as long as your form is good so there  you have it broadhead tuning simple we did this   in probably less than 30 minutes of actual work  from the bow shop to the range hopefully this   helps you out be sure to subscribe to our channel  and man we're always putting out new videos i'm   always brainstorming of new videos to make for you  guys just to make your lives simpler and once again  leave me a comment if you have any other questions  you can email me anytime dan.p at eastmans.com   i'm more than willing to help you guys i love  archery i've been doing this for 25 years since   i was a kid i've learned from my mistakes and  hopefully my mistakes you won't have to make and   you will actually have a simple  pleasurable time tuning your hunting bow

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Length: 26min 33sec (1593 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 10 2021