broadheads
10-11-2007, 02:34 PM
#4
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
RE: broadheads
ORIGINAL: sbooy42
Nobody if your bow isn't tuned properly......
Nobody if your bow isn't tuned properly......
Most name brand broadheads today fly very well...You guys wouldn't believe how much better broadheads are designed today when compare to what we were shooting back in the 60s and 70s...
Not only do they fly better, they are much tougher...I remember the first time I saw a Wasp and a Satellite, the blades were actually the thickness of the old thin razer blades, the old 2 blade Bear heads were tough and heavy...I'm so old I still sharpen my broadheads, this has come a long ways as well...Broadheads are actually sharp when you buy them, it hasn't always been that way...
I still remember going through arrows and numbering them and using the ones that flew best so they were the ones I took hunting...Bow tuneup was fairly easy, you set the nocking point, because you were using a recurve....
10-11-2007, 02:35 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Abilene, Texas
Posts: 2,731
RE: broadheads
ORIGINAL: sbooy42
Nobody if your bow isn't tuned properly......
Nobody if your bow isn't tuned properly......
If your bow is tuned properly, most newer broadheads will fly pretty true. I am using slick tricks, which are flying out of my bow with perfection. I would have to say that my bow is shooting more consistanly and more acurately than ever before (mostly due to this site).
10-11-2007, 03:44 PM
#8
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Colorado
Posts: 4,127
RE: broadheads
Yup - IMO it needs to be tuned. You might be lucky and it happens to already be tuned. Expandables tend to often shoot pretty well out of a bow that is not tuned, but not the fixed broadheads. Invest some time in the tuning process and you should be able to get field points and fixed BH's to shoot the same. Easton's website has a whole section on tuning.
On the flip side, our local archery shop doesn't believe in tuning. Their recommendation is to practice with field points in the off season; and then sight in with broadheads a few weeks before the season - and don't shoot field points again until the hunting season is over. They set your bow up perfectly when it leaves their shop, and you had better not mess with those perfect settings.
I couldn't leave those settings alone. And after a couple hours of moving the rest and nocking point as the paper tear indicated, was able to get all types of fixed BH's hitting the same as the field points. I don't think it groups any better than before, but the arrows are flying straight and I can just leave the sights alone.
On the flip side, our local archery shop doesn't believe in tuning. Their recommendation is to practice with field points in the off season; and then sight in with broadheads a few weeks before the season - and don't shoot field points again until the hunting season is over. They set your bow up perfectly when it leaves their shop, and you had better not mess with those perfect settings.
I couldn't leave those settings alone. And after a couple hours of moving the rest and nocking point as the paper tear indicated, was able to get all types of fixed BH's hitting the same as the field points. I don't think it groups any better than before, but the arrows are flying straight and I can just leave the sights alone.
10-11-2007, 03:56 PM
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Calgary
Posts: 194
RE: broadheads
ORIGINAL: Roskoe
On the flip side, our local archery shop doesn't believe in tuning. Their recommendation is to practice with field points in the off season; and then sight in with broadheads a few weeks before the season - and don't shoot field points again until the hunting season is over. They set your bow up perfectly when it leaves their shop, and you had better not mess with those perfect settings.
I couldn't leave those settings alone. And after a couple hours of moving the rest and nocking point as the paper tear indicated, was able to get all types of fixed BH's hitting the same as the field points. I don't think it groups any better than before, but the arrows are flying straight and I can just leave the sights alone.
On the flip side, our local archery shop doesn't believe in tuning. Their recommendation is to practice with field points in the off season; and then sight in with broadheads a few weeks before the season - and don't shoot field points again until the hunting season is over. They set your bow up perfectly when it leaves their shop, and you had better not mess with those perfect settings.
I couldn't leave those settings alone. And after a couple hours of moving the rest and nocking point as the paper tear indicated, was able to get all types of fixed BH's hitting the same as the field points. I don't think it groups any better than before, but the arrows are flying straight and I can just leave the sights alone.
10-11-2007, 04:30 PM
#10
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 181
RE: broadheads
lots of shops that i talk with...good friends with owners...they are also pro shooters(last 15 years)....they say paper tuning is good for up and down tuning but as far as left and rights go....paper tuning is not the best method
