Pros? Cons?

I seem to get better results by getting grossly good flight with bareshfts, then going right to the paper.

Is there any reason bareshafting might be a better method?

I always shoot with feathers on anyway, so thats how I tune it!

sra,
Just a thought..
Are you bare shafting thru paper? Doesn't sound like it.
I shoot my bare shaft thru paper lQQking for that bullet hole or slightly weaker as flecthing will stiffen it up a tad.

Fletching will make almost any shaft close to paper tuned look ok, put you will see the difference out to those 40 plus shoots, some see the difference at 60 yrds. Depends how lucky you are to get the shaft right the first time with fletching.

Kingstaken
I bareshaft through paper.

My release is not good enough to get reliable results with paper.I use the planing method instead.When I can hit what I want and have them shooting down the middle I add feathers and fine tune for clearnce if needed.

I agree with James, I know very few and I mean very few guys with a clean enough release to get good bareshaft results thru paper. If ya bareshaft use OLs method which is point of impact. Shawn

Sar,  In all due respect.  Drop the paper unless you plan on reading it after supper.  Bare shaft testing gives the most reliable results.  We shot longbows and recurves so we dont have to go through all the crap that compound shooters do.  Keep it simple!

it's even more important to go through all that stuff shooting a stick as it is shooting wheels.  Problem is unlike a compound, achieving perfect arrow flight out of a stickbow is no simple task.   There are no rests to move, no limb bolts to adjust, etc.

Finding that perfect shaft is all by fire.  

So much for simplicity.