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breaking tooooo many
DBernier:
Mike, please just get closer to the hay bale, even 10 yards. Do that until your group is 6 inch's with 6 arrows. THEN move back in 5 yard increments.
Dick
jape:
6" at 6 yards? Blimey, I miss the haybale twice at 15! But I am improving, meanwhile, I will blame the arrows a bit thanks.
El Destructo:
I never practice with a New Bow at more than 20 foot....and the problem with the Arrows is ...that the least bump between Arrows when Target Practicing...and the POC Arrows will split or splinter....I hit the Cedar Fence with one that barely missed the Tennis Ball I was shooting at...and it blew 3 inches off the end...along with the Nock and a Feather...but my main bitch about the Cedar Arrows is inconsistency in spine....per weight...they are so off ...this last 24 I bought...all weighed within 20-25 grains.....I took them down to the same weight....and when shooting them...out of the 24.....I have 7 that group together consistently....the others are all over the Place....I don't have a Spine Tester....so I just color coded all of the Arrows that hit Left....and those that Hit Right consistently...so I know which are over and under spined ...I am looking for some kind of Hardwood Shafts for 3D Shooting...but I don't care for the Ramin....they are too thin for the Weight....I am partial to a fatter Arrow....don't know why!!!
Cromm:
Hi,
OK how do you spine test an cane/bamboo shaft? There's a website that is selling tonkin shafts but they are unspined and you have to do it yourself.....But i don't want to buy 24 of them and only get 3 good ones for my cash/ bow! Also are you looking for ones that are the same size as 11/32 or 5/16 POC shafts, because i do not know??? Thanks for your time.
jape:
I'm fed up with all this technical stuff and expensive tools and products that aren't what they say they are. I just bought a load of 11/32 field points and the taper is different to the taper tool taper, (yes I did check which end!) also they are too small for the 11/32 shafts but too big for the 5/16! So what is wrong, the point or the shaft?
I'm just going to take a breath, buy some dowel, dry the boo and then I am gonna MAKE them work. I'm not going to spine test any more, I will bare tune each shaft to whatever length they require down to my draw length, then match them by length afterwards into sets and fletch and paint or whatever. The only ones rejected then will be ones way too light that won't take the strain and they can be tuned for the longbow.
No more POC, I just worked out I spent more than $400 on making arrows in my first eighteen months and I got 10 left. That's ridiculous. I don't think my ancestors purchased shafts from 3000 km away, used spine gauges or fletching jigs, and I got all my fingers, a reasonably well working brain and nature around me so that will have to do!
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