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Old 08-20-2003 | 10:29 PM
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AKDoug
 
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Default RE: The tuning trilogy!

The nice thing Arthur is that my broadheads fly exactly the same as my field points. I spent serious time making this happen and I' m very happy with the results. Same size group with my Muzzy 125' s as with my Slik Tip field points.

I don' t punch holes at fixed distances any more except for a few warm-up arrows and a weekly group testing to see if my dozen arrows I practice with are still grouping. I' m blessed to live in the woods so my 7 yr. old and I spend a lot of time kicking around our Stumper Kick Target (best target in the world ) and trying realistic hunting situtations and getting good at estimating yardage. We do this in all weather, nearly every day. I' m more concerned with being a good hunting archer than a target archer. I am by no means a slob hunter.

Too many people these days getting obsessed with the tollerances of their equipment but do not have the ability to make their equipment perform to even near that level. Many are way to quick to blame the equipment before looking at their form or mental conditioning. You and I both know their are plenty of people out there blaming arrows when in fact they still have fletch contact on their rests or overall poor bow tune. Hell, my 10 year old bow still has plenty of hunting accuracy and I' ve shot plenty of new bows that I can not shoot better. Why change?

A baseball is the same size as the 5 ring on a 5-spot 20yard indoor target. If I don' t drop outside this at 30 yards I am more than happy. I never was a 300 shooter, and I doubt I' ll ever be. I have way more mental issues shooting 5-spots than I do squirrels.... I have some sort of circle fear...LOL...

I do shoot good arrows. At this moment I shoot 2219 XX75 Breakups and I' m more than happy. However, unless an arrow starts dropping out of the group on group day, I never even bother to straightness test them.

Oh well, time to head outside and kick the target in the rain
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