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mmattockx:

--- Quote from: Oldvol on April 29, 2021, 05:07:38 pm ---The bow is 68” long overall and 66” ntn. Thanks for the feedback about the arrows. What spine should I use? Should I use arrows made of wood, carbon or fiberglass? I will definitely watch the Kaminisky videos. Thanks to everyone for your help.

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According to the Skylon arrows spine chart (http://www.skylonarchery.com/images/chart/chart%20target.pdf) you are looking at around a 700 spine for a 30# draw weight and a 28" arrow length. You can shoot arrows made of any typical material, they will all work fine. To shoot off a shelf or your hand you need to have feathers for fletching and not solid vanes. All my arrows have vanes and I shoot off a stick-on rest, which works well.

Be aware that the carbon and fibreglass arrows have spine measured differently than wood arrows. The composite materials will have spine numbers in the hundreds, like the 500 and 700 I mentioned, while wood arrows typically have their spine expressed in pounds of draw weight.

As willie says, you can fine tune arrow performance by cutting them to different lengths and using different tip weights. At your point I wouldn't worry about that, though. Until you can shoot consistently you won't be able to tell if the tuning is helping or not.


Mark

Oldvol:
Thanks Mark. Going to Sports Academy next week to see they have in stock.

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