Tuning & Bench Tools

Scales, squares, spinners, levels, vises and arrow-prep gear from Last Chance Archery, Hamskea, October Mountain, Easton, Pine Ridge, Bohning, Specialty Archery and Carbon Express, the same categories of tools a pro shop actually runs.

You don't need all of it on day one. A bow square and a hex set cover basic nock and rest height. A hanging or digital scale, like Last Chance's Bow Scale 3.0 or October Mountain's Accu-Arrow, tells you your real peak draw weight instead of the number stamped on the limb, which matters because every spine and FOC calculation depends on that number being right. An arrow spinner catches a bent shaft or crooked insert before it costs you a group. A bow vise, like the Specialty Archery Pro Vise, is what turns a kitchen table into a place you can actually work.

A level, like Hamskea's GEN2PRO or WayPoint, solves a different problem: canted bows and off-axis sights that miss left or right at distance, especially from a treestand.

Buy the tools that fix the mistake you're actually making. Start with how to paper tune a compound bow to find out what that is, then run the numbers in The Forge.