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Old 05-08-2003 | 06:00 PM
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Straightarrow
 
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Default RE: Arrow Flight different with broadheads vs. field points

Let' s say I start out tuning my broadhead flight, before ever tuning for or shooting field tips out of my setup. I bareshaft tune (with tape weighting the nock end of arrow) simply to get spine perfect for my arrows with broadheads. After I' ve got my draw weight set perfectly, I then group tune, so my bareshaft hits with my broadheads. (I' m not talking same hole, because I don' t have that ability, besides I' ve always heard that the bareshaft arrow should hit a bit lower). It would seem to me that at this point my broadheads would be planing little if any, in order to group with my bareshaft. I now shoot my arrow with field tips. What forces would cause my field tipped, fletched arrow to not group with my bareshaft and broadheads? And why if my bareshaft and broadheads group together, would that be considered a compromise tune? If the broadhead were planing, it wouldn' t hit with the bareshaft. You can take it a step further, and put the long field tips on the bareshaft and the fletched arrows and make sure the tape on the nock end of the bareshaft, weight the same as the fletching.

It' s hard for me to imagine that this process wouldn' t give you an extremely well tuned hunting setup. This is basically what I do, and it seems to work extremely well.
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