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Flight Bows / Re: First flight arrow.
« Last post by superdav95 on February 07, 2026, 09:02:45 pm »Hey guys. First flight arrow here. I’m just going to do a range of similar arrow at varying spines and then test them out locally here before flight shoot. This arrow is spruce shaft from surewood shafts in the 50-55 range. I’ve had these for a while and glad I kept them. I’ve tapered the shaft down to roughly .180” at the tip tapering to fattest section about 1-1.5” rear of center where thickness is .310”. This then tapers again towards the nock about .245”. I used antler nock and will still shape it a bit more. The fletchings will be goat skin parchment. Very thin yet tough. As it sits now the spine as at 50lbs. This is pegged at 22” not 26”. The weight is quite light at 230grains. I’ve been told by guys in the know that less spine is better to a point. Some would say that this arrow is spined correctly. I guess I show up with a bunch of arrows at varying spines and see. I’ll of course do some testing here before in a buddies field but climate and wind and other factors there cannot be entirely counted for. Any suggestions to raise the weight a bit?
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Ok Arvin just reminded me that no minimum weight on arrows for flight. So I’ll take a bit more material off to get the spine down a bit more. I’ll see if I can get it closer to 35lb spine. Or .743” deflection. My next few arrows I’ll make at 1” deflection and then do one at 1/2” deflection to test em out.
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