Spine/Flight Consistency

[Buckfever]

I don't know if this is something that you guys ever look at and perhaps the heading isn't exactly correct, but that tends to be the principle effect. What I'm basically talking about is that if you take a dozen and a half of your carbon arrows tune your bow up good with a new one that you know is sound and then run those 18 carbons through paper, they won't all punch bullets. You might punch 3-4 and then one gives you a high left tear, so you shoot it again to make sure it wasn't you, high left, one more time to be sure, imagine that, high left. Then a few more will punch clean through the paper and then again you'll find a deviant arrow that you'll confirm. You go through those 18 and you might have 6 or 7 that don't fly right. Now you can change out the nocks to be sure that's not it, but I can't tell you why exactly those arrows don't fly clean. Maybe it's spine inconsistency, or maybe there's some minor structural break down and don't get me wrong they still might be plenty accurate, but at least for hunting I want my arrows to be flying true and striking square. So I'll take the ones that strike especially clean and spin true and put them aside for hunting and use the rest for practise.

I suppose with some of the real good arrows, it's less of an issue, but in any event it's not too much of a deal to check and make sure you're getting the most out of your equipment.

[ncboman]

If you set your nocks the same relative to the seam in a carbon arrow, you won't have as many 'off ones' out of a dozen.

My arrows don't bullethole paper. Bringing the broadhead and fieldpoint together is a much better tune for me.

Out of 2 doz ACCs, I'm yet to find a shaft that is different in any way from any of the others. Best arrows I've ever shot and when you consider that every shaft is 'good', not so expensive in the long run.

That said, expensive arrows aren't required to shoot plenty good enough to hunt. I killed far more deer when I used regular gamegetter aluminum arrows. Precision and long range archery is where the differences in arrows is more telling.

[Buckfever]

"Precision and long range archery is where the differences in arrows is more telling."

Yeah till recent and just barely at that, I didn't have the skill to be able to tell the difference.

"when you consider that every shaft is 'good', not so expensive in the long run."
Absolutely.

[Buckfever]

"If you set your nocks the same relative to the seam in a carbon arrow, you won't have as many 'off ones' out of a dozen."

And folks think I pay attention to detail?

"My arrows don't bullethole paper."
Yeah I'm not speaking regarding tune here, but rather as an assessment of consistency in flight.

It's a good point to make though. Arrows that bullet holes, with the exception of some of these low profile fixed heads, with a conventional fixed head, will not have the same windage up close and further out.

"That said, expensive arrows aren't required to shoot plenty good enough to hunt."

Agreed, but when you start pushing the envelope by using larger cut mechanicals it is even more critical to hit square. A reality which is in odd contrast to widely held views that mechanicals are easier to tune. IMO the use of at least the larger cut mechnicals, utilizing a Jackknife type of deployment, increases the tuning requirements.

[ncboman]

"If you set your nocks the same relative to the seam in a carbon arrow, you won't have as many 'off ones' out of a dozen."

well, I might be pullin your leg a little there. ;D

I remember I shot one of my goldtips full of instafoam insulation one time.

Trash that idea.