Weird arrow flight?
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Alabama USA
Posts: 252
Weird arrow flight?
This is probably going to sound like a very stupid question so please bear with me. I'm shooting a Tomkat (left handed) 70lbs, 27inch DL, Goltip xt's 26inches, 100 grain field points, trophy taker shaker rest. I dont know if my eyes are playing tricks on me or what but @ times it seems that when my arrow leaves my rest it doesnt always go to the target in a straight "line". Its not fishtailing or porpoising, but it looks like it is curving. It shoots good groups. I dont how to exactly explain it but for anyone who understands baseball its like if a left handed pitcher threw a curveball to you while your bathing. It makes that kind of flight pattern. I know this sounds weird and stupid but for anyone who understands what I'm talking about, is this normal, abnormal or are my eyes really playing tricks on me. I feel stupid for even asking but I've just got to. Thanks.
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Brampton Ontario Canada
Posts: 1,038
RE: Weird arrow flight?
Tomkat (left handed) 70lbs, 27inch DL, Goltip xt's 26inches
I hope they are not 3555.
They are quite a few other situations that can cause this to happen, but first let's look at what you're shooting.
#5
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,175
RE: Weird arrow flight?
I pulled my compound out and shot it for the first time in over a year last Sunday. I was getting the same thing. It'd been so long since I'd shot a compound that I'd forgotten a basic rule. It only took me 27 targets of crappy arrow flight in a 30 target tournament to remember: Rule #1 - Check to make sure your rest isn't loose.
Mine was.
Shooting crosswind or quartering in a strong breeze will also make you shoot curveballs, which was also a problem last Sunday.
If it's not one of those two things, then it's time for a tuneup.
Mine was.
Shooting crosswind or quartering in a strong breeze will also make you shoot curveballs, which was also a problem last Sunday.
If it's not one of those two things, then it's time for a tuneup.
#10
RE: Weird arrow flight?
I had a similar problem once.
It was the weirdest thing.
Turned out to be a bad combination of poor clearance off the rest, and broadheads that didn't spin true.
So the thing started out minnowing from hitting the rest funny, and then the crooked BH played off of the original interference and kept it from ever stabilizing.
The result was the coolest looking corkscrew flight I've ever seen.
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It was the weirdest thing.
Turned out to be a bad combination of poor clearance off the rest, and broadheads that didn't spin true.
So the thing started out minnowing from hitting the rest funny, and then the crooked BH played off of the original interference and kept it from ever stabilizing.
The result was the coolest looking corkscrew flight I've ever seen.
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