Torque Tuning

Hey guys, so today I'm going to show you how to paper tune and show you why it's important. So just so you know, when I started I've already set my bow up, I've paper tuned it close, but you don't put a ton of effort into it because after you torque tune it's probably going to mess it up. Now just so you know, there are two different ways to torque tune. You can torque tune using your sight or you can torque tune using your rest. For me personally, I always torque tune using the rest because my sight needs to stay where it is so I can see it through my peep. So with that said, I'm at 50 meters right now. If this is your first time doing this, start at 20 yards that way you don't miss the bail in case it's way off. Now you can torque tune using any kind of rest and this is beneficial because if you shoot in wind, up and down hills, or in pressure situations, anytime that you put a little bit different pressure on your grip, this is going to ensure that it's still going to hit the middle. So what I'm going to do is basically show you guys how this works and we're going to see if I can make this better. So the first thing that you're going to do is shoot an arrow straight up, which means without torque, to find your zero. So I'm going to start off by doing that. Now what I'm going to do next is shoot an arrow torquing it to the right. Now I always test it both directions. You may notice that when you shoot you miss a little more one way or the other, it's hard to make a good shot when you're torquing the bow this much. So I'm going to draw back, anchor, and then torque the bow to the right. To do that, I grip the front of the bow right here and I just twist like that. You'll notice you'll see my stabilizer move and one word of advice, when you torque, it's going to basically un-center your housing from your peep sight. You want to make sure that you re-center that before you shoot or it's basically going to throw off the test. So I'm going to draw back, anchor, and start with the right torque. That is tough. So now what I'm going to do is test it the other way. Just to be sure, I'm going to draw back, anchor, and torque to the left. Yeah, we got a big spread there. So here's the beauty for me, because I shoot the AE Freak Show QD Rest, there's two different ways that I can move this. It makes my life really easy. So the first way is just by moving this whole body and the whole body can basically go forward and backwards. And that is the direction that you're moving your rest when you torque tune. It's not up and down. It's not in and out. It's the whole rest forward and back. Now, one other cool thing about this rest is on the inside here, we have the new sling blade. You can see these holes and all the different adjustments there to move your rest blade forward and backwards. And that just gives you that much more room when you're torque tuning. So for me personally, since I still have a lot of adjustment room here on my rest body, I'm going to go ahead and start by moving that. Now, for those of you that haven't done this before, a little bit can go a long way. So I would say move your rest a sixteenth of an inch, an eighth of an inch. On this, I would say just one detent because there are detent marks. And for me, I already know that was pretty widespread. It's going to need a little bit more than that. So I gave mine about three detents. I'm going to tighten her down. And now I'm going to test it again. Now, this is just guess and check. What you're trying to do is find that perfect spot where when you torque, everything's going to line up. So you might have to do this a few times. It might take three or four adjustments to get it where you want it. And that's okay. So now that I move my rest, I'm going to go ahead and try this test again on the right target. And we're going to see if that adjustment I made helps at all. So you're going to start again by shooting one arrow straight up. Moving your rest that much may change your point of impact. So shoot one normal one first without torquing. All righty. Now I'm going to do the same thing I did before. I'm just going to start off by shooting an arrow, torquing to the right. And I'm going to finish it off by torquing one to the left. All right. Let's go check it out. Okay. So when I started, the center arrow there was my first one. When I torqued to the right, it hit here. When I torqued to the left, it hit way over there. After moving my rest and shooting again, this was my first one. This was my right torque, and that was my left torque. So as you can see, just by moving my rest in and out, it minimized my left and right misses drastically. Okay. Anyone who's going to shoot hunting tournaments should definitely take the time to do this. I just did this in five or 10 minutes. Again, it may take you a few times, but it is well worth it. So this is basically what I do on every new setup. Now that I'm done torque tuning, I'm going to go back to the paper tuner, and now I'm going to really put some effort into getting that bullet hole that I want. I hope that this tip helps everybody. I hope that you guys give it a try and let me know what else you want to see in the future.