RE: New Bow and Making the Switch to Carbons!
One other question, does the 125 grain Stingers with the 3/4" bleader blades, do as good of job at bleeding out a animal/good blood trail, as say a Thunderhead, Muzzy or any other quality 1 1/8" three blade broadhead. I look at the NAP Crossfires and realy like them too, but they only come in 100 Grains. Here is what I have figured out so far, I imagine that with a drop away rest I will have somewhere around a 29" length arrow. That figures out to 266.8 grains if I go off what I have been told of 9.2 grains per inch. Figure in 35 grains for fletching, nock, and insert. Top it of with a 125 grain head for a total weight of 426.8 grains. Now I have made a few call and learned a bit about the weighted straws. They can go the entire length of the arrow up until the insert, for best fit touching the insert. I don't know how long a GT insert is but I am guessing somewhere around an inch. So if the weighted straw is somewhere around 28" long and I go with 3 grains per inch for a total weight of 84 grains. And when I add that to my arrow it gives me total arrow weight of 510.8 grains. Now I figured using GT front of center calculator on their web site, it comes to 11.12% Front-of-Center Balance Point. To figure that I had to add the 3 gpi of the straw weight, to the 9.2 gpi of arrow weight for a total of 12.2 gpi at 29". I realize that the arrow is not 12.2 gpi for the entire length of the arrow becaue of the insert but I didn't know how else to figure it so that's what it came to. I know that is a rough estimate but I bet its close, as soon as I talk to GT and get some strait answers of exact weights of my arrows I will know for sure. I shoud have the arrows at my door in about 2 weeks and I have reloading Scales so that shoud help me out too. Hope I didn't confuse you all with this.
BareBack Jack, and justhuntitall I want to thank you for your input as well, that was rude of me to not mention you guys and give thanks in the preivous post.
Thanks Jason