RE: JeffB, this spine's for you!
Black Frog
Fine work on your spine tester. It looks very well thought out and executed!
We weigh, spine test and then bare shaft all shafts out of a shooting machine (glorified Hooter Shooter on steroids) for consistency of performance. We can often rotate the nocks on a shaft and get it shooting to the same hole as the rest of the bunch once we are at a very tight spine variance.
We have found that the stiffer the spine relative to the bow weight, the less critical the spine match becomes.
That being said, ACCs are pretty hard to beat in my book for an all around shaft.
We don’t spend much time on carbons with the exception of some CTs once in a while.
What has your carbon testing revealed? In other words whose carbons have you found to be close to ACC consistency if any, and what has been your experience among the different brands?
If you don’t want to let it all hang out on the forum, a personal reply reply would be appreciated.
Jeff, your input is always highly regarded as well.
Black Frog, once again….very nice work.
Best….Nubbb