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I thought I would throw this around to see if anyone else had had my experience in trying to bare shaft tune wooden arrows and wonder if it's worth the hassle?
I have a Border Covert Hunter 40lb @ 28inch and my draw is 28inch. Before the CH I had a ILF BD Hex6 BB2 40-45lb and similar issues with bareshaft testing woodies. This is in NO WAY a dig at the bows, great people and superb bows!
Both bows have been tested with a range of spines from 45lb right up to 65lb, field piles from 60g up to 125g, parallel, rear tapered and barrelled shafts all 11/32 in POC, Sitka and Pine.
All of the shafts shoot nock left and in some extreme cases snap as they hit the boss, I have tried building out the strike plate but always the shafts shoot erratic. What I have found though is any shaft 45-65lb , rear tapered or barrelled and fletched will shoot very well from the bows and accurate from 5 to 50yds on a field shoot, because of this I tend to go for lighter spine Sitka to produce a lighter arrow for a flatter cast.
Yes I can hear some of you say "whats the problem then"? Its not so much of a problem, I am just trying to understand why this should be when I see a lot of posts recommending bare shaft tuning?
Thanks
I have a Border Covert Hunter 40lb @ 28inch and my draw is 28inch. Before the CH I had a ILF BD Hex6 BB2 40-45lb and similar issues with bareshaft testing woodies. This is in NO WAY a dig at the bows, great people and superb bows!
Both bows have been tested with a range of spines from 45lb right up to 65lb, field piles from 60g up to 125g, parallel, rear tapered and barrelled shafts all 11/32 in POC, Sitka and Pine.
All of the shafts shoot nock left and in some extreme cases snap as they hit the boss, I have tried building out the strike plate but always the shafts shoot erratic. What I have found though is any shaft 45-65lb , rear tapered or barrelled and fletched will shoot very well from the bows and accurate from 5 to 50yds on a field shoot, because of this I tend to go for lighter spine Sitka to produce a lighter arrow for a flatter cast.
Yes I can hear some of you say "whats the problem then"? Its not so much of a problem, I am just trying to understand why this should be when I see a lot of posts recommending bare shaft tuning?
Thanks