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ORIGINAL: Kelly/KY
Not to hijack the thread Black Stick, but what do you guys do if you in between arrow selection. I'm shooting 27" arrows and 70Lbs, always seems to fall in between for carbon express arrows. I've hunted both 250s and 350s. Any particular insight?
Kelly,
You can shoot a little longer arrow to balance out the spine if you need to. I don't know why so many guys "think" they have to shoot a 26" arrow out of their 28" draw bow, butthat's really not the case. They could shoot a 30" arrow out of it too, and may be better off if they can get a 30" arrow "right-spined" vs. a 26" arrow under or overspined.
I'm a firm believer that keeping and extra 1-2" on an arrow to get you into the right spine is far better than adding tip weight to try to weaken the spine on a shorter arrow, and ballistically an arrow flying out of a compound seems to hold it's energy a little better than a short bolt flying out of a crossbow from my experiences.
Doug, I think most of it has to do with BH price these days. I know it does for me. I mostly shoot traditional and changing head wieght expensive. The days of 25 dollars for 6 BH's are over. So most like to use what that got, which is typically 100gr and for some 125gr. So you do like most of us and make the arrow work for the head. Which is easy enough, just cut it down. And with most rests these days, one can shoot 3" at most shorter than thier draw.
I litterly own a fortune in bh's for trad. From 100gr to 125gr, to 150gr, to 190gr, to 200gr.