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On Target for Tuning Your Compound Bow

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This book can really help you understand whats going on your bow, what to look for, and how to get it. There's a lot happening when you shoot an arrow, and everything is important, by following the steps "On Target for Tuning your Compound Bow", you'll be able to get your equipment to perform the most.

This book has a lot of authoritative opinion, and I'm sure that taking advice from it is sound. For anyone that's considering tuning their own compound bow, this book will certainly help you take the plunge.

However, with how complex a compound bow is, it would really help if there was more illustration. There's simply no good way to explain how the cams are operating, with words alone. The illustrations and photographs are pretty inefficient, especially depending on which bow he's referring to. The single cam setup is afforded no illustration which would show the path of the complete path of the cable and string. There's a one photograph of a black string, on a solid black cam for example, which doesn't really help anyone.

After reading it, I still come away unable to restring a single-cam bow (and this is supposed to be a user-friendly bow for tuning). I feel like I have to go rent/borrow/buy a second bow with the same string style, just so I can replicate it.

This book will certainly give you a little confidence in fiddling with your bow, but unfortunately, won't help you with a bow that's in need of serious tuning. I'm surprised Larry Wise took the time to go into detail on how to make a string, but avoided going into any detail on actually stringing the bow in question. I feel that knowing how to string your bow would be essential and come before making the string itself. It would at least be nice to know what to do with the string after you make it.

On top of all of this, the book really lacks any treasure trove of knowledge that can't be gained through a brief search through your favorite search engine. I was hoping I might find some useful information which the internet seems to lack, alas, that is not the case.

Not entertaining but a huge amount of data condensed into a very small book. A necessary addition to a compound bow FITA shooter. To be used as a reference book.

This is a great book for anyone that wants to learn how to tune their own compound bow. Annually, bowhunters spend thousands of dollars paying others to tune their bows. This book teaches you how to effectively and efficiently tune your own. Mr. Wise does a great job of explaining things and their is a great glossary provided in this book to decreases the ambiguity of archery terminology. I would highly recommend this book to all archers that shoot compound bows.

I am an archery nut trying to maximize my PSE's potential and that of my arrows. That being said, this book fit my needs perfectly. it's filled with good advice, comprehensive enough to cover many different types of bows, accessories and arrows, and demonstrates how to set up a "shop" without spending a fortune(not actually a chapter, it just happens while he explains how to do some thimgs).

The book is very interesting and extremely technical. Larry Wise is competent and I would suggest this book to all of you!!
Larry explains the fundamentals of the compound with the help of older bows.The functioning principles are still valid for the new ones. Two chapters have been added and deal with the monocam and the cam & 1/2.
Personally I missed a chapter dealing with the letoff, how it works and how to regulate it.
I hope Larry will add a third chapter in his next edition...
Anyway, read this book...cost is extremely low!!

I bought this book hoping to be able to do some minor bow tuning. Little did I know how helpful it is. The more do myself the less I have to pay someone to do it. Needless to say, the book has already payed for itself.

Don't buy this book. If you understand compound bows enough to understand what the author has written, you probably won't get any benefit from the book. I bought a compound bow second hand, for casual target shooting, not hunting. The instructions in the book were useless to me. I fix things for a living and this was like trying to read a foreign language. Choose another book if you need help tuning.

This book has a lot of information in it to be a thin book. If you are serious about learning what , how and why a bow works this is a good starting point, I liked it.

The way to go. Best thing out there if you want to tune your bow.