Alright guys/gals I have a question regarding tears and the movement of the rest to correct tears. For this question assume that spine is correct and a right handed shooter and no fletching contact with the rest.Now what I have read is that if you have a left tear (fletchings tear to the left of impact >---) that you should move your rest to the right. Now I would think that moving the rest to the right would make it worse.If that is the case, then why do you move your rest up if you are getting a nock high tear (moving toward the nock tear). It just seems to me that you would move the rest toward the nock tear. Help a brotha out!!

In my experience you can't say left for left or right for left because all kinds stuff is going on in the dynamics there. It may be due to the way your hand fits the grip, torque, string oscillation, spine, cam type, or a number of variables. In many cases I have to move left for a left tear with my set up. I think a whisker bisquit even complicates things more because there's a 360 degree surface for the shaft to make contact. Some bows have characteristics that most all owners of that bow encounter. You may want to search archerytalk forums for your set up under tuning and see if you can get any insight. I don't like the socail part of AT but it has a butt load of info!

I don't want to hi-jack the this thread, but since we are on the topic of paper tuning, how far from the paper do you stand to shoot. I have had some bow shops have people stand 6' from the paper, and other have people standing with the tip of the arrow almost touching the paper. I was wonder most here think is the right distance?

I generally follow that if the adjustment is in front of the bowstring (rest) that you make the adjustments the same direction as the tear (tear left, move rest left; tear right, move rest right, etc). If you are moving the spot on the bow string you move the nock point opposite of the tear (tear up, move nock point down; tear down, move nock point up, etc).

Fun4
I think that how you do it would be the correct way, but everything I read says the opposite for some reason. I have searched archerytalk, and everyone on there seems to say the opposite. Regardless, I will make the necessary changes to achieve the proper tune, I just wanted to see if anyone had a reason why they move the rest the opposite way of what I think and how Fun4All does it. Thanks