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WhistlingBadger:
Evening, everybody.

Now that my main archery season is over, I decided to try my hand at bare-shaft tuning.  I am still in pursuit of consistent accuracy, and I want things tuned up a little better.  Here's what happened.

I am shooting a 60#, 72" ntn flatbow.  29", self-nocked arrows.  I'm a bit embarrassed to say I can't remember the spine of the shafts; I believe it was 55-60 pounds.  125 grain heads.  Three-fletched with helically mounted, 5" by 5/8" turkey feathers.  I shoot left-handed, so everything will probably be backward from what most of you would see.

After hunting season, I was down to four arrows, so I stripped the feathers off of two, hung a paper target on my ten yard bale, and did some shooting.  I haven't shot since I killed my deer almost two weeks ago (did I mention I killed a deer?  With my bow?! 8) ), so my shooting wasn't stellar.

The fletched arrows were flying well enough, sticking out perpendicular to the bales, though the holes in the paper were a bit oval-shaped, as if the arrows didn't go quite straight in.

Then I shot my two bare shafts.  Whoa--what a revelation.  The first one hit at about a 40 degree angle at 10 yards, with the head to the right.  The second bare arrow hit at exactly the same angle, so hard that the torque broke the shaft!  I pulled the first shaft and shot it again.  It hit at the same angle as the other two times, and also snapped!

Obviously, there is some seriously funky stuff going on with my tuning.  It seems as if the arrows aren't paradoxing around the handle.  I'm guessing I need a lighter-spined shaft and/or a heavier head.  I have some 45-50# shafts lying around, and I ordered some 145 grain field points.  Am I on the right track?

Any thoughts, expertise, wisdom, and other smart stuff would be greatly appreciated.

Thomas

PEARL DRUMS:
If you are a lefty and the arrow tail is right, it is stiff. Mount some 160s and try again, bet it comes around. Nock high is a high nock point and vice versa for nock low. If you have some full length shafts laying around you could leave them that way and glue a 125 on. That to would bring the tail around. Once you get that bow and arrow super tuned you will be amazed and how good of a shot you really are. A mismatched set up will never shoot as good as you truly can.

WhistlingBadger:
The tail was pointing left, the head right.  Does that mean I'm spined too light?

PEARL DRUMS:
Too light. Yup. If you can snip an inch off the arrows, try that.

WhistlingBadger:
OK, thanks.  I believe I have some stiffer arrows lying around somewhere...I'll strip the feathers from a couple and see what that does.
T

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