Broadhead tuning for optimal flight
07-26-2004, 02:57 PM
#1
Fork Horn
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Broadhead tuning for optimal flight
One of the things that has troubled me for a long time, is there seems to be great disparities of thought regarding how to acheive optimal broadhead flight. I think that with today's technologies and the power generated by our modern equipment that tuning has never been more important. What I am looking for here is for a discussion in which we can discuss the issue and see if we can come to some kind of consensus of what is proper tuning to acheive optimal broadhead flight.
07-26-2004, 09:18 PM
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RE: Broadhead tuning for optimal flight
Buckfevr
My penny’s worth;
One can tune a bow with a proper set up fall-away rest to shoot bullet holes in paper at any distance in a few shots. See my post on bent bow arm.
But to stabilize a Broadhead is a different animal.
If one shoots the common fixed blade broadhead fast on a light arrow with 3” off-set fletching it will fly like a dive bomber on a run.
If you shoot it show enough, & tie a parachute on the end(5” helical fletch) it will be stable.
If you want to jack them up to high speeds, for perhaps setting the first sight pin at 25 or 30 yds to stop confusion there is perhaps a way.
Some Broadheads are sold nowadays that aid the fletching & stop a lot of the erratics.
Or if one in good in a shop the same thing can be done to most broadheads.
Now if you want to know about people who may stabilize broadheads @ about 310 fps you can call Carbon Tech & one of the people there appears to know people who can. You can find their number in most Archery Mags.
My penny’s worth;
One can tune a bow with a proper set up fall-away rest to shoot bullet holes in paper at any distance in a few shots. See my post on bent bow arm.
But to stabilize a Broadhead is a different animal.
If one shoots the common fixed blade broadhead fast on a light arrow with 3” off-set fletching it will fly like a dive bomber on a run.
If you shoot it show enough, & tie a parachute on the end(5” helical fletch) it will be stable.
If you want to jack them up to high speeds, for perhaps setting the first sight pin at 25 or 30 yds to stop confusion there is perhaps a way.
Some Broadheads are sold nowadays that aid the fletching & stop a lot of the erratics.
Or if one in good in a shop the same thing can be done to most broadheads.
Now if you want to know about people who may stabilize broadheads @ about 310 fps you can call Carbon Tech & one of the people there appears to know people who can. You can find their number in most Archery Mags.
07-27-2004, 01:11 AM
#3
Boone & Crockett
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RE: Broadhead tuning for optimal flight
As far as the broadhead only is concerned the only thing that needs to happen is it must have straight blades and be perfectly center to the arrow.
Now when you take into account the entire tuning process you have properly spined arrows, Center shot, nock high or low, type of rest, spring tension on the rest, fletching contact, vane or feather, length of fletching, right or left helical/ offset or striaght fletch, cam lean, diameter of the arrow, FOC, length of arrow, speed of arrow, tiller, string strech, peep movement, type of nocking system, human influences, ...................... Any one else care to add something?
And no two bows or shooters will ever be exactly the same.
Now when you take into account the entire tuning process you have properly spined arrows, Center shot, nock high or low, type of rest, spring tension on the rest, fletching contact, vane or feather, length of fletching, right or left helical/ offset or striaght fletch, cam lean, diameter of the arrow, FOC, length of arrow, speed of arrow, tiller, string strech, peep movement, type of nocking system, human influences, ...................... Any one else care to add something?
And no two bows or shooters will ever be exactly the same.
07-27-2004, 09:16 AM
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RE: Broadhead tuning for optimal flight
bigbulls
As for me, if I had to check out all of the items stated, each time I bring out the broadheads for hunting, I do not believe I would be hunting that much. And I deem, some of these items much more important than others. As fletching contact, Arrow Speed, & Arrow Rest(as you can tell by the Posts here the last few months, the fall-away rest can cut down on tuning time by a large margin.)
As for me, if I had to check out all of the items stated, each time I bring out the broadheads for hunting, I do not believe I would be hunting that much. And I deem, some of these items much more important than others. As fletching contact, Arrow Speed, & Arrow Rest(as you can tell by the Posts here the last few months, the fall-away rest can cut down on tuning time by a large margin.)
07-27-2004, 12:21 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Broadhead tuning for optimal flight
the fall-away rest can cut down on tuning time by a large margin.)
07-27-2004, 12:56 PM
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RE: Broadhead tuning for optimal flight
Now when you take into account the entire tuning process you have properly spined arrows, Center shot, nock high or low, type of rest, spring tension on the rest, fletching contact, vane or feather, length of fletching, right or left helical/ offset or striaght fletch, cam lean, diameter of the arrow, FOC, length of arrow, speed of arrow, tiller, string strech, peep movement, type of nocking system, human influences, ...................... Any one else care to add something?
07-27-2004, 01:34 PM
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RE: Broadhead tuning for optimal flight
(as you can tell by the Posts here the last few months, the fall-away rest can cut down on tuning time by a large margin.)
Who you work For
I have to say.....half the stuff you say make absolutely No Sense......and the other half is......well plain damn funny
07-27-2004, 03:09 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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RE: Broadhead tuning for optimal flight
help me out here regarding rests. why are drop aways harder to tune? I went into a shop looking for a whisker biscuit and basically got laughed at because "there ain't no whitetail treestand hunting around here" then pointed me to a Rip Cord drop away. I didn't realize that whisker biscuits were treestand only rests, or best suited for treestands. So now I go a searching for drop aways, looking at the Quick Tune 2000. I just bought a PSE Beast bare bow from a pro shop. Shot a few but for the price, $169, it felt pretty good. I need to piece the rest together, pun intended. Above I read that using drop aways with a single cam bow isn't very easy to tune. what gives?