Hay guys, have been shooting my new bow for about 3 weeks now, my problem is that the arrows I bought dont fly vary well. They worked great on my 45lb @29 recurve but on my new long bow 60 @28 they shoot for crap. They are 2020 eastons and are 29.5 long. I get alot of up and down movement no side to side, the tail ends up being about 3 inches high. I have moved my nocking point all over, and I have changed grain weight from 100 to 125. If I shorten my draw by about an inch they fly good. Because of all this I figure I need to get alittle bit heavier arrow, what would that be I dont know much about the numbers on the arrows. The guy who mad it said not to go below a 17 on the second number.

Looking at your bows, it is difficult for me to tell what type of spine you need. That's probably a bow dependant issue anyway. Still, I'm not sure why the tail would be flying high if it's not a problem of nock placement. However, I only shoot wood arrows, so I might be missing something here. Is your longbow a high-performer (how radical is the deflex, etc.), what's the brace height? Sometimes my arrows fly nock end down if my bracing height is too low.

Somebody else can probably help you better than I can.

For one thing, I wouldn't expect the same arrow to shoot the same on two different bows with a 15 pound draw weight difference between them. Porpoising is almost always caused by the nockset being in the wrong spot, not spine or brace height. The only other thing I've seen cause it is shooting plastic vanes off the shelf instead of feathers. You ain't doin' that, are ya?

You might try some 2117's and see if they'll help.

Some longbows are very touchy about hand placement on the grip. Try not "heeling" the bow much, with the pressure at draw mostly on the web of your hand.

Hope it helps.

I shoot about 30 shoots today and adjusted my nock point all over. I started with it dead center and moved it up at about 1/16in after 3 shoots, I found the best flight at about 1/8 or so above center, but it still was not good about 2 or 3 inch up or down. when I back up to about 30 yards I can see some tail spin and side to side movement. The grip on the bow is a flat style fat grip, and I have to hold it completly different from my old bow. It is a vary high performance bow with fast flight, lots of reflex deflex. It still hits close to the bullseye, someone said that tey have only seen this with vanes, thats what it looked like to me to, I shoot 5.5in shield cut feathers. I am going to give the guy who built a call and see what I shoud try, the only thing is that I dont have allkinds of money to buy arrows and test them.

Have you checked to see if maybe you are getting feather contact? Of course you are going to get some, however if that bottom hen feather is turned straight down you'll essentially have 2 feathers dead centered into the bow, one on the shelf one on the riser. That very well can cause a slight high tear also, along with some fish tailing.

There is no real honest way to get it all out without going to paper or bare shaft imho.

This is gonna sound goofy, but try nocking your arrow upside down (cock-feather IN) & see what happens.