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Originally Posted by Psylocide (Post 4075561)

Well, grabbed a few Walmart carbon arrow shafts... 31" @ 9.6 grains per inch, but no spine weight is specified(Just a range from 40 - 70 lb draw weight.), for 3.50 a piece.

Put 125 grain field points on for now, and fletched with 2 full length feathers in a spiral fashion. Let me tell you... at 20 yards, these things start to drop like a rock. However, within that range, they fly like absolute darts. I can group these better inside 20 than I can with my regular arrows.

The spiral fletch job was a real pain, and didn't realize until the second arrow that I should have sanded down the spine of the feather for easier application. I've got more drying time into them than anything, but they are a blast to shoot and loud flying through the air, lol.

Worked out to be about 5 bucks an arrow all said and done.

I used permanent marker to "paint" my existing nock red to match... good enough, ha.

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They are a little ugly, but everything seems to be holding well... not sure how much it weighs though, 435 with arrow/nock/tip, but unsure on glue/feathers/insert. I'll get it weighed next time I'm at the range.

Carbons can be a booger to tune at first. At 9.6 grain per inch needs an insert. Brass or weedeater line will work. I would suggest starting your tuning by focusing on FOC first then go to cutting. That is if you do not have a spine tester.

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Originally Posted by burniegoeasily (Post 4079068)

Total weight of the arrow is 465 grns.

I have had no problem shooting these though... I don't think flu-flus require much in the way of tuning. I just have to hold a little to the left when compared to my hunting shafts with field tips.

I can deal with that knowing that my bow is shooting my aluminum shafts perfectly and my flu flus aren't going to get used as much as my standard fletched arrows.

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Originally Posted by Psylocide (Post 4079165)

Flu flus or not, you still need a tuned arrow. You are over spined. Up your foc and you can solve that problem.

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Originally Posted by burniegoeasily (Post 4079221)

Flu flus or not, you still need a tuned arrow. You are over spined. Up your foc and you can solve that problem.

I understand I'm over-spined with the 125grn field tips I'm using currently... but I really don't want to mess with anything until I put on my homemade small game heads. I haven't weighed them yet, but I think they'll come in on the heavy side.

That should fix the problem, if not, I'll beef up the front some more by adding more weight internally.

I just want to get by on the cheap and easy for these squirrel thumpers... I half expect to lose a couple one way or another.

Thanks for the pointer... I'll get it sorted one way or another.