Adding weight to arrow
 

Hi
I am a relatively new bowhunter and I love it. I am learning more and more as I go along. I primarily hunt deer and am thinking of bowhunting turkeys. Right now I am shooting 65#'s, 27.5" dl and a 382 grain arrow and head combination. I was thinking of adding more weight to stabilize it and to increase FOC. What does everyone think of the weight washers out there? I was thinking of adding a few 10 grain weight washers to increase weight to 400grains.

Thanks
croc2116

How far out are you shooting? What grain broadhead do you have? Here's link that looks useful...

http://archeryreport.com/2010/09/arr...ics-calculate/

Farthest I will shoot is 30 yrds and my broadhead is 100grains

Don't forget the more weight you add up front the weaker your arrow will be. (heavier tip would be like shooting a weaker spined arrow.) You're currently almost 60 grs over the minimum normally allowed so as not to void your guarantee. The extra 18 gr will be inconsequential. You will have very little noise reduction and lose about 4 fps. Your KE (assuming you're shooting 300 fps with the lighter arrow) is 76.4 ftlb. - going up to 400 gr and losing the 4 fps you're talking about 77.8 ftlb. So again no big deal. IMO if your arrows are shooting nice for you don't waste your time.

Thanks bronko22000

at 30yds you prob wont notice much of a difference...maybe if you are in competition shooting you might..