Lining your fletchings up with your blades is an old wives tale and means nothing. You can do it if you want them to look pretty, but it won't make them fly any better. If it does chances are your inserts were not square and rotating them fixed that. Besides, good luck doing that with a modern arrow where the insert is epoxied into the shaft.

I tune my bow to shoot broad heads in the same general area as my field points, or least the best I can get it. Sometimes you can get them very close, sometimes things don't go as well. It is very dependant on your arrows. You need closely matched arrows with a spine that matches your set up. If not you will have trouble getting them to group with your field field tips. If you know your bow was tuned well and grouping well with target tipped arrows and you have to make large adjustments to your nocking point or rest chances are your spine is off and you are compensating for it.

Do not have your bow paper tuned and assume it is tuned. Paper tuning is the first step in tuning, not the end. Chances are you will need to tweak it when you shoot with broad heads if you want them to group together. Sometimes you don't though. Again, depends your arrows and your form.

I personally don't try overly hard to get them to group together. I shoot 99 percent of the time in my back yard shooting at targets for groups. And once or twice a year at a deer. I don't feel like de-tuning my bow to make it group fixed blades. Which is what most do when they do this.

I don't shoot fixed blades that often either. Maybe once or twice a season when it gets close to the opener. I tune my heads and arrows, then tune my bow to where they shoot where I am happy. Then I replace the blades and set my hunting arrows aside and don't touch them again. I want perfect arrows in my quiver, not arrows I have nocking around for two months. If I know my fixed blade heads hit where I aim them why would I need to practice with them? The field points work just as well for practicing my release and form. And they are not as dangerous, expensive or hard on the target. I have hit enough arrows with broad heads that it isn't worth the expense of new arrows, heads and fletchings to play with them when I know I don't need to. Almost every time I tune for broad heads I end up taking a fletching off, splitting an arrow in half and or ruining a head. I certainly don't want to do that on a daily bases.

For me shooting the deer is not the hard part, that is pretty easy because of the distance and size of the target. It's getting them close that I have trouble with.

Now if you only shoot once or twice a month for a half hour or so and can shoot fixed blades where you shoot then it probably isn't a big deal and not a bad idea. However if you shoot every day for hours at a time I wouldn't suggest shooting a fixed blade all the time. More power to you if you want to, but I'm not going to do it. Not when the modern equipment is so good and closely matched.

Paul