do you have to line broadhead blades up with vanes for better flight
09-09-2003, 08:30 PM
#3
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
Posts: 18,322
RE: do you have to line broadhead blades up with vanes for better flight
Bobcat 10, it isn' t necessary but if you feel you must, on aluminum arrows with hot glue melt, you can simply heat the end of the arrow and spin the broadhead to line up with your fletch...again it' s not necessary.
For carbon arrows with hot glue melt, install a field point and gently heat the end of the field point until the glue loosens enough to spin the insert to allow you to line up your blades when you put a broadhead back on....apply heat directly to carbon arrows will damage them.
For epoxy, this becomes much harder but you can follow the instructions above being very careful to supervise the heating process as to not damage the carbon arrow.
Again, it' s not necessary...more importantly is that the broadheads spin in the same plane as the arrow with no wobble and using adequate fletch for stabilization not to mention a well tuned bow.
For carbon arrows with hot glue melt, install a field point and gently heat the end of the field point until the glue loosens enough to spin the insert to allow you to line up your blades when you put a broadhead back on....apply heat directly to carbon arrows will damage them.
For epoxy, this becomes much harder but you can follow the instructions above being very careful to supervise the heating process as to not damage the carbon arrow.
Again, it' s not necessary...more importantly is that the broadheads spin in the same plane as the arrow with no wobble and using adequate fletch for stabilization not to mention a well tuned bow.
09-09-2003, 08:53 PM
#5
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
Posts: 18,322
RE: do you have to line broadhead blades up with vanes for better flight
But Rack, I digressed....you simply said all that needed saying. [:-]
I think we started typing at the same time...you simply finished first...
I think we started typing at the same time...you simply finished first...
09-09-2003, 10:42 PM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 6,921
RE: do you have to line broadhead blades up with vanes for better flight
Tuned bow and true spinning BH/Arrows makes no difference in fletch alignment. Otherwise how would you get a 2 blade to fly?
