RE: instructional thread for capping and cresting your own arrows!
 

I have been wanting to ask this question for a long time. Not trying to be a smart A$$, just curious about something. I have several things yet to learn in archery, so I’m sure I will learn from this question.

Have you guys ever complied with any testing to see what adding all that paint to the back of your arrow does to long-range flight characteristics? I love the idea and yes it looks great, but I just can’t see taking a $110 set of arrows that are all within 1-2 grains of weight of each other and dumping a bunch of cheap model paint on the back of it. Sometimes I even wonder about arrow wraps that overlap each other by ½ inch and how that would affect the balance while arrow is spinning at high speeds.

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MilDot, I've read enough of your posts to know that you're not being a smart-a...; that you truly care about little stuff like that! ;)

To answer your question, no -- a grain scale is on the "will-buy-soon" list, but -- to be honest -- I'm not a world-class archer shooting 70 meters or anything like that. I would say at the most that it may change the variation from arrow to arrow less than a couple grains, and that's still giving me quarter-sized groups out to 30 yards, which is plenty good enough for my hunting requirements.

Here's proof: 32-yard shot this past season, and you'll notice which arrows I was using...



You can probably tell, but an autopsy revealed a perfect triangular cutout through the middle of his heart. ;)

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Now remember, that begining was back in 98 and I don't know how that ole skinhead winded us....I tried to edit the tape from 98 to current...it's close..and no problem..but I want results with the Deer Flute...

AND, nice picture above...great shot.

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Just curious but why add all that weight to the arrow? What effect does it have on the balance?

RE: instructional thread for capping and cresting your own arrows!
 

To answer your question of "why?", I went back and pulled this explanation out of my original post...

To explain further, it's amazing how different the woods that you've been studying, contemplating, and staring at for hours on end look once you climb down from your 20' perch. Before I started capping my arrows, I would sometimes walk over to where I knew my arrow was, and still spend a long time searching for it -- even though I had swore I had it marked with a landmark like an oddly shaped tree before I climbed down. Now, I never have that problem.

Now as far as the "all that weight" portion of your question... It's not that much weight. A couple coats of spray paint on the last eight inches and a few little stripings for decoration doesn't weigh much at all... I'm still easily able to obtain a FOC of at least 10% with 100-grain heads.

RE: instructional thread for capping and cresting your own arrows!
 

I do this with my traditional arrows. Irig a power drill and and turn out these. These are rthe only ones I have done. Just played with it. Fun.

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Thanks for posting this Greg, its awesome and i will be building one.

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bump for Rookie Bowhunter

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Yeah!! Thank you!!

Greg, this is awesome! Ohh...I can't wait to give it a try...

Thank you, again!

Isaac

RE: instructional thread for capping and cresting your own arrows!
 

A year and a half since I wrote this thread -- here's how I'm doing my arrows these days...

For some reason, I started having some adhesion challenges with Duco. I never did at all the first year, and like I said, even had several pass-throughs with the same arrow and never had a feather even appear it was inclined to start coming off.But... those were Gold Tips, and I'm shooting ACC's now; don't know if that makes any difference. It's the only thing that's changed about my setup.

So, in light of that... I started sanding off the back part of the cap where the fletching attaches. That allows me to glue straight to the carbon, and I'm using Bohning's Fletch-tite Platinum. The thing I like about this is I can re-fletch over and over again without having to redo my cresting or the top part of the cap.

When I need to refletch, I just strip off the old feathers, re-sand the shaft, and reglue. I then touch up the cap above the feathers with some quick sprays of more gloss white, stopping right at the top of the feathers. You'll see below a pic of what I'm talking about; this is before I started going back and re-touching up the bottom part of the white cap with new paint.