ORIGINAL: Hoytail Hunter
Here's another question/angle the guys with more expertise here can try to answer for me. (no way patronizing, it's a fact some of you are experts)...
If a bow is perfectly tuned, a FPand good quality BH will hit the same right? That is what you're saying. Now, if that is the case, then wouldn't any other quality BH hit the same once you've already tuned the first set of FP and BH's? And if that's the case then wouldn't any another quality broadhead yet, that is the same weight but twice the cutting diameter still hit the same? See, if a BH which is 4 times the cutting diameter as a FP can hit the same as that FP then why wouldn't it stand to reason that a BH that's only twice the cutting diameter as that BH hit the same as it?
I thinkthere arethree ways to tune your bow:
1) to your FP's
2) to your BH's
3) to a happy medium between your FP and BH making the poi's of both to meet in the middle making you tell yourselfyour bow is now in tune.
I also think, and I may be wrong, but not wanting to be wrong has overridden science and physics when people say FP's and BH's can hit the same.
The broadheads have to be quality heads,not all will hit the same.
The arrows have to be of the proper spine and I don't mean by a chart,I mean exact.
The foc has to be high enough to allow it to happpen.
Inserts have to be aligned perfectly.
Center shot vertically and horizontally must be right.
Bow must be timed correctlty with no cam lean.
Archer must be able to shoot without torquing and have good follow through.
The release must be clean,loops help in this area.
Must have adequate steering on the backend,helical feathers preferably.
You can just put a bow on a machine and tune it to paper and expect them to hit the same.
I have done the above and the first time I shot the broadheads,they were hitting the same or VERY close to the same.(I have a thread pasted at the top of the technical forum)
Not all can achieve this because some can't even shoot without torquing.
I believe the flawed things Len refereed to are unqualified persons performing the test.When they said they paper tuned the bow,that was a dead giveaway.(as you can see,there is much more to tuning than that)
Probably spine issues.Slight rest adjustments will yield good paper results from improperly spined arrow but not good flight downrange,especially with broadheads and yes,even have the field points hitting the same,OUT OFA MACHINE.But they usually compromise centershot.
And probably more of the things I listed above were probably not right.