Arrow tuning

[Rayzor]

I am finally buckling down and going to get this archery concept right. I bought a mission bow a couple months ago and want to get it and me ready and practiced for deer hunting this year. So far the biggest question in mind is arrow tuning. I bought 2 dozen Beman ICS Hunter  arrows with 3 strait fletches. How do I setup the broad heads in relation to the vanes? I have Thunderhead 100 ready to go.

[Empty Quiver]

As long as they aren't touching the bow anywhere I haven't seen any difference. I'm not what you would call an excellent shooter though. I would tend toward making them up shoot them all as is and see if you find any trends. Make your adjustments from there.

Since they are carbons I suppose that won't really work, will it?  Now your seeing how backwards I really am. Still shooting aluminum, 21 century is so over rated.

[Cottonwood]

Empty Quiver there is nothing old about aluminum Easton's as I shoot XX78 2413's @ 29.5"  and the 2315's @ 29" with a 145 gr FP with a total weight of 570 gr total arrow weight with 4" VaneTech vanes.  Now I use these out of my Mathews Drenalin with it turned down to just 58 pounds with a 28" DL.  Yep, I can see these fly and yesterday was hitting a 5"x4" sq of paper at 50 yards with no problem.

I don't shoot carbon's any longer because its not about speed with me, but weight and engery transfered by the arrow and that is just the law of physic's work.  I have broken far to many carbon arrows to go back to them.  These arrows also fly very accurately out of the BowTech Guardian with its 70 pounds and 28 DL as well.

On the broadhead target with a 125 gr Magnus Stinger or the 125 gr Simmon's Land Shark these are awesome penetrators, but can have a tendancy to plane a bit because of the width of the blade.  I'm thinking about ordering the Woodsman 150 gr just to see what kind of flight these will have.  As I said, I love slow heavy arrows and these just flat out work for me.

I know there are others who like the fast and furious, and want faster feet per second, but I also shoot traditional bows too, so what do I know after 41 yrs of shooting bows.

[Empty Quiver]

Montanan, as a fellow old timey shooter I shouldn't have to ask if you have any spin built into your arrows? Only 4" fletching!?! OMG Everybody knows you need to have 5" full helical fletching to shoot old timey arrows. Just kidding with you. My buddy's see my arrows compleate with dip and crest and all the above and can't believe I really shoot them. They haven't really elaborated on whether they think they are too pretty or ridiculous. The deer around here think they are to die for!

Like you I'm happy to watch those bright and slow arrows hit.

[Cottonwood]

Empty Quiver, yep those 4" VaneTech vanes are nice and yes they have a helical done by the shop when they were put on the shafts, but feathers they aint    The Easton's had the old long vanes on them and they were touching the rest, so its pretty much for clearance and not smashing the vanes dang them Ripcord rest anyways  but the accuracy is awesome, as well as how quiet they are.