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Old 05-08-2003 | 08:57 AM
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Default RE: Arrow Flight different with broadheads vs. field points

Just a few excerpts from Bob Ragsdale, one of the Gurus of bow shooting and tuning, in response to questions about having your broadheads fly and group the same as your fieldpoints.

" Serious competitors and ethical hunters will either have 2 bows ready for the 2 jobs, or 2 sights for their bow, one zeroed in with the broadheads and another zeroed in for the fieldpoints."

[I]" ….. some people compare the impact of the identical arrows with fieldpoint and broadhead. I don' t. I' m not sure I know anyone who does. Who wants the misery? We are more concerned about being POSITIVE the broadheads hit exactly where they are supposed to, so it makes no sense to use or make the sight settings with an arrow we won' t even be using and then trust the accuracy to some close-enough comparison with 1 or 2 shots at 1 or 2 distances.

[I]" Why do you want the broadheads to hit exactly where the fieldpoints do anyway? I haven' t seen anyone even bother to check for that in years and years?[/b] You guessed it right, just simply having 1 set of marks or a separate sight for broadheads and another for fieldpoints is a terrific and MUCH MORE RELIABLE system.

" We get away with murder when using field points but when you add ' wings' to the front end of the arrow if everything isn' t ' as perfect as it can possibly be' then they can' t be expected to behave like the field points which easily side-slip where the ' wings' cannot. I haven' t even bothered to make such a comparison in maybe 25 years, don' t even know anyone who does, we all have better things to do than be frustrated trying to fix things that aren' t broken."

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