BowCast Blog

As many of you know I have been in the process of setting up my Blackhawk Bow from Parker.  Rather than stumbling thru the process I decided I would tune first then shoot.  Always looking for the latest and greatest I setout to find some tools that would help me in thru the process.  Other than the usual tools,  I found a neat little product called the BowPlane² by Double Take Archery.

This tool is basically an arrow that has a laser in it that projects a laser beam 360 degrees. The idea is that your string, your cams, and your pins should all be in the same plane. It is a pretty simple concept.

So how does it work? Well, you nock the tool just like you would nock a traditional squaring tool, if you have a drop way you will need to prop it up if it doesn’t lock up.  Then you rotate the laser so it aligns with the STRING first. Then you can move your arrow rest left or right to adjust for your centershot. Then you can lock your rest down. Then you can move your attention to the site. Look at your pins, if you site is adjusted correctly the laser should run up and down all the pins. If they are canted you will need to adjust the 2^nd and 3^rd Axis of your site.

As you can see it is pretty easy, overall I think it is a pretty good tool for setting up a bow and for quickly verifying that everything on you bow is straight. It is a little expensive but if you have issues with cam lean it will be worth its weight in gold. Would I buy one? Well, I did so I guess that is a yes.

NOW.. How would I improve it? At first, I thought maybe if they added a bubble to the tool somehow they could get the relationship between the rest and your nocking point perfect but after talking with Stu Minica, from Double Take, he mentioned that they have tried it but the issue is that a bubble working on the concept of the bow being absolutely square so they didn’t really think that you gained anything by adding it.

So how did my tuning efforts go with the Parker? They went pretty well, this is the quickest I have ever setup a bow. Once the string breaks in I will re-tune and see how much things have change. After the 2^nd tuning I will open up the bow and see how it shoots at longer ranges with broadheads That will be the true test.

Once again thanks for everything and take care

J-