How to tune a compound bow 

Mr Sean,my name is Pablo and I live in North Alabama,I'm the only hunter in my family so I learned everything myself. Few weeks ago I decided to take the big step and switch from rifle to compound bow(never ever hold one in my hands before) so,as you can imagine,I was lost in another world. Luckily for me I came across your channel and within 5 min I hit that suscribe button. Mr Sean,your knowledge and experience is priceless,but the fact that you share this info for beginners like me is beyond anything else I could've found,I have follow every single recommendation and tip and my improvements are great. Im 31 years old and thanks to people like you I can keep growing as a hunter. Thank you sir!!

Hey there , brother Sean. I'm a disabled veteran and single father of two grade school sons. My wife passed away last year, leaving me stressed, emotionally broken and defeated. I turned my head back to Jesus and begged for healing. So far, so good. In order to start "living" again, I turned toward some old hobbies (boxing, art , running etc...) and some new ones. Archery had me in love from the first knock. Lol. Anyway , I watch all your videos and was really blessed to find them. I get to learn more about archery and from a fellow man of God! Thankyou.

I haven’t thought very well of religious people for most of my life. You‘ve changed my mind. Bless you.

I've watched upward of 40 compound bow tuning videos over the last few weeks, trying shoot a bullet with my Hoyt. Sean, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this video. You, personally solved my problem by touching on every important aspect of bow tuning.

Thanks for making all your vids ‘from the ground up’ Keeping the terminology simple and easy to understand ☺️

I bought a bow where the limbs, cable and the string were not attached at out of the box. I watched your video to assembled it. I has zero knowledge before and now I am the best in my town. God bless!

I have a 2012 bowtech invasion and everytime I change a string or need some tuning refreshers, I watch this video. Definitely the best overdrive cam tuning video out there

I have been bowhunting for almost 20 years, every time i watch one of your videos I learn something I didn't know. Thanks for posting

Awesome video on bow tuning I got a diamond bow had it setup at sportsman’s and got it home and couldn’t get a grouping better than 6 inches spread out I have had the bow for a year and finnally decided it must be me , I watched your video tuned it found out the measurement to string was an 8 th of an inch off even tho the bow itself showed it was identical on its markings I tightened the one side got them to match up and I have a one inch or better grouping now shooting bulls every time never would have made it happen without your video thank you !!!

Your explanations are very precise and easy to understand even for a guy whose native tongue is not English. Thank you good sir I indeed learned a great deal today. Very good video, keep it up.

Good stuff bro, my daughter is interested in archery and your videos have helped me a lot in figuring out where to start. Thanks, stay safe and be blessed

Thanks Sean, I am getting back into archery after many, many years. Your video was a great help in understanding these adjustments.

Watched this at 2x speed. The most informative 12 minutes I've ever had on youtube. Thanks.

Very informative I like how the septic pipe runs right through the background keep up the good work

The information you gave on the Hoyt was PRICELESS! .... Subscribed,, cant thank you enough for sharing your knowledge!!

Best compound bow tuning tutorial ever! I'm from China, you are helping people world wide! Thank you!

Fantastic man! You were meant to be a teacher! Very good explanation with very good examples!

Great video. I centered my arrow rest and adjusted my draw length to suit my arms. Sighted it in and was able to put 3 arrows touching at 30 yards. Not boasting.... Those adjustments made a huge difference in my accuracy.

Thank you for your fantastic content Sean! As a Kiwi recurve archer living in Australia and coming over to compound I've found this very informative. I have also got the rest of my family involved. Just going through what equipment to get next. Bless you bro you are encouragement to many.

Sean your vids are fantastic . I just started shooting competitively again after taking 10years off. The new cam and half is something new that I needed info on. You explained everything perfectly. I also have been watching all your other vids. I am very impressed. Thanks again for helping me!

Without a doubt the most helpful video I've ever watched,thanks so much!

1000% my issue, bow shop set up my bow. Get on target but not quite right, buddy gives me some of these tips. On yellow all day! Thanks again Sean!

I'm just getting into shooting and ordered my first bow today. I'm a tuning freak and love tinkering. It's part of the reason why I got BowTech Experience. Thank you for the video and God bless you also. Appreciate you taking the time to do this.

Hey sean. Huge fan ive watched most of your videos. I watched this and the hoyt video at least 10 times each. Im only 15 and trying to get my knowledge up to help out at my local bow shop. These videos and all of them for that matter are really getting my info level up just wanted to say a special thanks for all your doing and giving back to the hunting and archery community.

Hi Sean, thank you so much for your very in-depth tuning guide! One trick I learnt was centering the rest with string-I discovered my arrow was way to the left. I did the task slightly different which doesn't require a cut arrow. I tied a string AROUND the bolts as a loop and pulled tight (as like a tank track around two wheels). This allowed the arrow to sit between the two strings and thus use a full arrow.

Thank you for the awesome informative videos.I have been shooting bows for 15 years or so and I am an avid bow hunter. I had never had anyone show me how to properly shoot. After watching a lot of your videos i can not believe my accuracy now. I just wanted to say thanks for the great videos and good luck hunting!!!

Your comments on checking centre shot really helped me, thanks. It was also a great use for a damaged arrow!

Hey Sean , just bought my new bow it’s been about 5 yrs since I’ve shot a bow , and I’ve been watching a lot of your videos and feel I got good quality info , going out shooting today thanks , and god bless

Fantastic information delivered in an easy to understand way. Have just started up archery and find that this is great for me to setup my bow for greater accuracy.... Will definitely share...

This is a tremendous help, especially the idea to tape a string for center shot... who would've thought! Thanks a lot for this video!

Very useful, thanks for all your instructional and review videos, as a new archer and technician, I really appreciate them! My shooting has really improved and I love to tune my bows. Greetings from the Netherlands.

A massive thank you for your video. It was very comprehensive and well worth the 25 minutes viewing. Take care mate and keep these great videos coming. Cheers Matt

Really enjoy your videos. Been hunting for a couple of years with a diamond outlaw but have yet to find a good bow shop. So, I found you on youtube and you are extremely helpful. Thanks so much and God bless!

Thank you for sharing all your great info and exp Sean. Your vids are well made and an invaluable resource for learning bow tech 🙏

Very informative video, I only started shooting archery yesterday. ordered a bowtech carbon knight today. excited to get more involved.

Thank you for posting these videos. The Information you provide has been very helpful. I had always wanted to get into Archery hunting but I always seemed to have a lack of time, money or a place nearby to hunt. This December i started looking into different bows. I was looking for something $500-700. After all the reading i did I decided it was time to shoot some bows. I went Into it thinking I was probably going to get a Hoyt Powermax or a PSE, I Started out with the Bear Threat I knew right away i didn't like it. Tried a PSE Brute Force, it felt ok then I tried a PSE Bowmadness a little above my price range but I wanted to compare. Then the dealer took down a Diamond Deploy SB I think it's just a step up from the Edge SB1 you reviewed, and the Diamond version of Bowtech's Carbon Icon. That bow wasn't even on my radar, but I thought it was a dream to shoot. I also really liked the Powermax, it was a very close 2nd. I think it came down to the RAK package was $50 cheaper than what they were offering for a similar package that came on the Hoyt. So I went with he Diamond. It was working really well for a while but whoever installed the bow accessories did a pretty poor job and soon both my rest and sight came loose from the vibration of being shot for only a few weeks. After i put them back together it didn't seem quite right. It was only after discovering your videos that i was able to determine that my rest was no longer aligned correctly. Now it's back to shooting as good as new! So thank you, I will make sure to mention your videos to all my friends.

Thanks once again Sean for your valuable instructions. I appreciate your video .

Very nice, helpful video! Followed several of the steps you suggested to tune my new bow, to help a novice get off to a good start. Might also be helpful for others who haven't thought through any issues they may be having.

Sean, you Sir are the man. Don't change!

best video about compound bow tuning i 've ever seen.

This gentlemen was to the point and very impormative

Sean this video is very good and well done. You are very knowledgeable about archery and tuning. Thanks for the video!!

Great video, only I'm gonna have to watch it a 100 times to absorb all the great tips you gave.

hey, thank you very much for this video, i didnt knew there was so much to be tuned on a compound, i´m a lot wiser now in taking care of it, so, thanks again.

great video. You covered all the need to knows. I shoot a Mathews solo cam. I haven't adjusted or tuned anything. Only time you have to do anything to it is when you change your string.

Your very down to earth and very good at explaining everything.i enjoy your videos and reviews.god bless and keep up good work

Very good information. It saved me.money and time. I have been bringing my bow to the shop to get it set up and i bet they didnt do it like you explained.

Very informative and easily explained procedures

Very, very good educational video ;)! It was extremely helpful to me when I had to change my string and cables. Thanks a lot and lots of fun!

What a great breakdown

great video. got a carbon spyder turbo coming in the mail. Super excited

I just bought my first compound bow and your lessons have been very helpful. Checking my bow setup out-of- the-box and found rest and sight way off. Looking for one of your lessons that shows how to determine the vertical location of the peep sight. I think I know the answer but not sure.

so awesome, I just got a cpxl, this is so helpful, everything i need to know (i'm assuming) in one video, perfect, thank you so much!

Great video!! I'm looking to get started into owning and shooting a bow and all of this is really good to know. I was unsure on also needing to buy a bow tuner (?) but I guess it would really come in handy to learn about your bow by doing the work yourself. Thanks a lot for putting this video together and for all of the info.

Hey Sean I just got my first compound bow, it’s a creative xp it’s a very nice bow, do you think these tips and tricks for tuning would still work even though you made this video in 2016 I would think so but I want to be sure so I don’t mess up anything important.

thanks a lot Sean I learned a lot from this video I noticed how at 30 40 yards I was hitting to the left but my 20 was good thank you a lot now I'm hitting good

Great guy thanks for all info explained as as a started strings ,well iv ruined 2 cans myself so thanks for all the little explanations of way is and what does and how works Ur the man

The cut arrow and string idea for lining up side square is genius thanks I will share this on Facebook:)

Great video Sean. Thanks a ton for this video. Just bought a bow and looking forward to shooting and hunting with it.

"You can tune a bow, but you can't tuna fish..." to paraphrase REO Speedwagon... As an old time/ long time bow hunter (@75 yrs) I've learned a lot here and from your other videos, especially after buying a used Edge bow recently. Took it completely down for major scrubbing and started anew with sights, settings, tunings, etc... I really enjoy the bow and its cool adjustment features and size. An excellent hunting bow, IMO. Thanks for showing the slick ways you check center, etc. "Simplicity rules". Wondering where you got your draw weight digital scale? My old Buckmaster spring type just doesnt cut it any more. Thanks!

Answered a ton of questions for me, excellent video.

Sean,I just came across your channel a few days ago, I am sorry to keep commenting, but seriously, I am getting so much out of your videos. I have bowhunted for years, but some of the things you are explaining are giving me a greater knowledge. Thanks a bundle.I am curious, what part of PA are you from and I notice you give glory to God, thank you! Maybe some day we could meet face to face:)

it's good to know this technicality.

I have a alpine frontier and your info has been so Awesome thank you so much

This is a really excellent video! I really like your detailed approach.

Solid video - especially for someone who just took the plunge and purchased his own press / drawboard Realized my lower draw stop was hitting a good 1/8" before my top - which I fixed, but now getting a slight lower left tear - just like you had. Hopefully I'll solve that this weekend. I cringed a bit on the drawboard section - didn't see a safety cord attached to the bowstring - hook, just in case that d-loop breaks. Thanks Again - Allan

Sean..!! listen, i am from Sri lanka. a beautiful small country..we have very good wild life.. use to hunt with guns,but yes we have the primitive Bow and Arrow.. not many does this game coz its not a rich country..now i live in Dubai and hoping to move to the states with my daughter.. so, soon we ll be there by GOD's grace and then we can meet up..

Sean, great video and very practical.

Great video Sean, very informative.

I keep comming back to this video, helps me alot. Been playing with my radical lately and have had alot of trouble with my groups. The bow was spose to be in a ready to hunt package but the d loop and peep are off to the side, the d loop was set way to high and to far apart for the nock, was not paper tuned and the cams are untimed by about 1/4". Starting to think maybe i should buy from a different 'pro' shop. Not many good places in australia i can buy from tho. Thanks again mate👍

your supposed to set the nocking point "dead level" on a Bowtech bow with Binary Cams as suggested by Bowtech...because they have perfect nock travel... but single cams & hybrid cams u set the nocking position 1/8th inch high or so... very very good detailed video though. we have the exact same bow Insanity CPXL with the same Limb Driver Pro V rest... I am curious as to what their flagship bow will be when its revealed on January 6th at the ATA Show.

Outstanding video!

I enjoy your videos

Excellent video..just purchased a new br33 and im new to tuning my own equipment.the top limb only having a yoke cable confused me...i had no idea what the buss cable did or how to adjust

Excellent video, a ton of information. Thank you, this video has helped me out a lot.

14:27 if you're shooting at an angle, make sure that your third axis is correct (3rd axis is how the housing is level to your sight bar/mount) if it is off, what will happen is your sight will be angled, so you have to "False cant" the bow in order to get it level, you then need to move your pins, this causes your shot to continually go off left or right.

Firearms are so much easier but im not gonna lie im really enjoying this compound bow. Longbows recurve and crossbows dont really interest me like the compound bow does idk why. You tell me maybe we will both know?

Bowtech Insanity CPXL - 2 Questions Awesome work by the way, thank you as everyone else has said - I can’t wait to tune this myself after having it to two “Pro Shops” who took a hack at it unsuccessfully. Q1: On my insanity the cams are definitely not centered Left/Right in between the split limbs, the cams definitely sit toward the left side of that space. Therefore, should the initial manual alignment of my rest also reflect that slight offset from center, or should it still be right at center (when measuring with the cut arrow method)? Q2: You mention the tiller length should match top and bottom. To make that happen on my bow results in the top set of limbs being tightened down a little more than the lower set of limbs (on the draw weight). Is the tiller length still the priority? Meaning is it more important than having equal spacing between the draw weight adjustment bolts gap (between the limbs and the frame)? Thanks in advance!

Great vid. Complex info, simply explained (a little bit more understanding on Compoud bows for the OR shooter I am). I want to start my tuning (we talked on another forum), and ordered a portable Bowmaster. That would be great to have your opinion if I can safely use it and eventually recommend it to my buddies on the range. BTW I am eagerly waiting for my hard copy of your book! God Bless

thanks so much . very clear. and very kind to share all this knowledge it with this community. i shared! it ! best!

Hey sean when it comes to yolk tuning i get mixed feedback some people say whatever twists you add to 1 side you need to take out of the other...one bow i shoot is a bowtech realm x and to get it to tune i needed to add a ton of twists to the right side even shooting through a hooter shooter if i went 1 for 1 the left side would of twisted in the opposite directions it started ..bowtech says thats extremely common on the realms some say bowtech in general just wanted to hear your take on the matter

First! Good vids man, I appreciate your information... Hopefully I get my first deer soon, I've been up in that stand next to a heavily used trail for 4 days straight and the only deer I've seen was the one who came up on my while I was setting up my stand...

Sean thanks so much for all you do for us archers,you have shared so many insightful tips.my question is on paper tuning,is center shot more important than getting a bullet hole in paper,for me I’m shooting a 1/2 in right 1/2 in high on entry ,so tear is low left,when I move rest to get bullet hole ,center shot is off . Thank you

Hey Sean, Just Great Information, their are new tuning levels its a Bow Riser Square -Up Level you should check it out Really Sweet

Great video Sean, new archer and I am enjoying all of your videos! Just a comment on what you were calling your back level, the one on the string. That would be an indication of plumb instead of level since the string is running vertical. The bubble is level but the string is plumbed in that position. Keep your videos coming and may God Bless!

I've watched your older videos a long time ago and its good to see your still bow hunting! You take any good bucks lately?

Thanks for posting, Very good info very helpful.

I would like a vid of maybe 2 did colours strings and shown the way to string any bow and the idea behind the actual way they work it's way I'm finding hard to grasp but all apart I'm a great shot lol Hoyt defiant 90 pounds psi

Is it common practice for the guy at shop that you buy your bow from and he sets everything up to not paper tune it before you buy it? I would think with the price on bows and all the extras it comes with that it would come flawless but maybe I'm wrong.

Awesome video Sean. Very helpful when you live in small african countries and have to do everything yourself. There is no friendly local bow shop where i live. Just one question.. will yoke tuning like you did not cause cam lean??

Your tips are great. I'm working to tune my son's Bear Apprentice. You mentioned adding a twist to each yoke based upon paper tuning results. His paper results show the point with the fletchings to the lower right of the point. Which way do you twist the right yoke? I would assume clockwise looking down on the yoke to be tuned. Correct?

At 8:00 mins into the video you begin to level your arrow rest. I can see you have your bow secured somehow at the top... Can you tell me how you have secured it? Homemade clamp? Thank you.

Man....I got a bow as a gift..and the "Pro Shop" did NO setup/tuning whatsoever....I cant get this thing squared away.....this is a big help.

I'm a finger shooter, (can't stand releases), Have an older 2 cam bow (Martin, Ultra Z cams), I had a problem grooping my shots until I was told, finger shooters should back the bottom limb off an extra 1/2 turn. Worked great until I replaced the string. My question is should I lengthen the cable so the cams turn over at the same time? or is that why I backed off the on the limb in the first place?

i use a guitar tuner, add custom tension until reach the right note on the string

Sweet video! Does it apply for Lefty Archers? I have just bought a PSE and find it shoots a golfball size target at 10 metres but at 20 they are more like covering a basketball size target. I don't think I would have even had 100 arrows through it yet.

Sean - when adding a 1/2 twist to your cable to align a peep, do you this for the cable on both cams to keep them in sync? And if you have a single cam setup, do you also need to do both? Thank you for all the great videos - the reviews and tuning videos are spot on and super helpful for me to learn how to do my own setups.

please advise me where i can go and learn how to repair and tune my bow i am a person who is a diy kind of person. thanks

Nice and easy setup

Gday mate. Can you tell me the main reason that my arrows kick sideways into the target. It’s certainly not the target I assure you 😊 They all enter with the back facing a little left. Maybe kicking off the rest?