Mostly, I shoot wooden bows off the shelf, so I don't worry about this, but my Das Dalaa has an adjustable strike plate. I've always just left it alone, where they set it at the factory. It is set so that the tip of the arrow is a little to the left of the bow's center, which seems to be the recommended place where it should be.
However, I assume they made it adjustable for some purpose. Would there be any advantage to fooling around with this, and what should I look for if I move it in a little closer to centershot, or move it a little further out?
The adjustment is used for tuning with different arrow diameters and as a small tweak to final tune.
For example going from a larger dia. wood, carbon, or aluminum shaft would certainly need a centershot adjustment when using an AXIS dia shafts.
The adjustable strike plate can be used in walk-back tuning and that's fairly sophisticated tuning...far more than I'm capable of.
Back in the day, we used to build up the back plate with layers of masking tape to fine-tune the arrow by inches at the 'X'. I guess that adjustment is the same thing.
This site may help you out.
http://www.texasarchery.org/Documents/T4T/TuningForTens.html
Thanks everyone, for your input. I enjoyed reading the article, Roy.
Changing point weight, changing arrow length, changing the centershot all do the exact same thing, just different ways of doing the same thing. Adjusting the side plate lets you use the point weight you want instead being stuck with the point weight that'll tune....O.L.