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Offline Hawkdancer

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Hafting broad heads & stone points
« on: March 09, 2018, 03:00:26 pm »
What or is there a best way to orient a broad head or stone point?  Parallel to the string or the cock feather, I.e. 90 degrees to the bow & string?  I looked for a thread, but didn't come across one!  Thanks,   Hawkdancer
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Hafting broad heads & stone points
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2018, 03:26:30 pm »
I don't think it really matters more of a personal preference .  I like mine horizontal or 90 deg to the string.
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Re: Hafting broad heads & stone points
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2018, 05:28:54 pm »
I cut a bandsaw cut for self nocks and trade and stone points so they are both cut vertical. I really don't think it matters. With commercial glue on points I mount them where they spin true so they can be any which a way.
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Hafting broad heads & stone points
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2018, 05:36:31 pm »
Yea....some people really get into it with the right or left helical fletch.......hell it really doesn't matter at 15 yards. :)
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Offline Hawkdancer

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Re: Hafting broad heads & stone points
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2018, 09:54:29 pm »
Guess I'll do a set of each and see which works best!  Not sure I'll buy a left helical clamp for the Bitzenberg, though.  If I get within 15 yards, the critter will hear me breathing! 20 and I may be all right!   Thanks!  Any body else who wants to weigh in, let's hear from you, too
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Offline Ed Brooks

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Re: Hafting broad heads & stone points
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2018, 10:24:46 pm »
My wife likes to hang some of my stone tipped arrows on the wall. So I mount mine (shoot shafts) the same as the string. Planed arrows, always same as string, across the grain is how I do mine. Ed
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Offline Mesophilic

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Re: Hafting broad heads & stone points
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2018, 08:39:15 am »
I mount them with the blade going from 2 to 8 o'clock.  Tried the other ways and they screw up my aiming for some strange reason.  When I tried 12 to 6 o'clock my elevation is all screwed up and likewise 3 to 9 o'clock my windage gets screwed up.  I'm not sure if shooting right handed is the factor but can't do 11 to 5 or 10 to 4 o'clock mountings at all.
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Re: Hafting broad heads & stone points
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2018, 09:51:26 am »
If I’m doing planed/store bought arrow shafts I cut the nock perpendicular to the grain and do the same for the stone point. Don’t wanna split a shaft! On shoot shafts I keep both cut the same just because. I used to shoot arrows that were short enough that I’d draw till the back of the broad head/ stone point would tough my finger, so that set up was needed there too.
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