The Affects of Adding a Stone Arrowhead

[PrimitiveTim]

I've been making arrows and shooting them with just blunt tips.  The arrows are well spined with the bow I'm using but when I throw an arrowhead on there won't it change the way the arrow shoots?  Won't it weaken the spine some?

How do you practice shooting with stone arrowheads.  I don't' want to break an arrowhead that I spent a lot of time working on but I want to make sure that the spine is still true for that bow.

Basically, how much is putting a stone on the end going to make a difference.

[Ed Brooks]

I went on e-bay and bought like 30 or 40 Cheep stone points for like 5-10 bucks. they have been fun to shoot. Good Luck.
Ed

[PrimitiveTim]

Yeah, I was thinking I might just use a flake that weighs close to one of my points and mount it and shoot it.

[PEARL DRUMS]

If your arrows arent already tuned to your bows, adding any broadheads will make your flight erratic. It has to leave the bow flawlessly with field tips in order to get flawless broadhead flight. Simply switching from hunting point to field point wont affect spine unless the grain weight changes. Generally speaking most of us wouldnt know if the weights flucuated 15-20 grains, just get them close as you can. Shoot your stone heads into blocks of closed cell cheapy foam, like the cheap coolers are made from. It wont hurt the edge and it will stop the arrow several times. I dont often shoot my broadheads because I know my bow and arrows are tuned and I know the broadheads will fly true as a result.

[aaron]

like pearl said, just use field points or blunts that exactly match the weight of your stone heads.

[Pat B]

I shoot every hunting arrow(with trade, stone or commercial) before it goes in my hunting quiver. I use a large rubberized foam bloch for this.
 For every 25grains added to the end of your arrow you decrease the effective spine by 5#. So, if your stone point weighs 100gr your arrow is shooting like one that is spined 20# lighter. Your arrows are not tuned to the bow unless you have the point you intend to shoot on it.

[sonny]

I shoot 'em into round hay bales as there are typically a few of them in the field next to my buddy's
house. I have broken a stone point or two when shooting into hay but I figure the point was destined to
break and I'd just as soon find that out now.

[H Rhodes]

I shoot 'em into round hay bales as there are typically a few of them in the field next to my buddy's
house. I have broken a stone point or two when shooting into hay but I figure the point was destined to
break and I'd just as soon find that out now.

I shoot round bales with knapd points all the time too and I hardly ever break one.   Like Pat B said, I have to shoot an arrow so I trust it enough to carry hunting.   I don't shoot more than one stone pointed arrow into the bale at a time.  If one hits the other it is pretty much game over for that point.

[PrimitiveTim]

Alright cool.  Thanks for the advice guys.

[mullet]

Go find and old couch cushion and shoot at the foam that is inside. It will not hurt your point.

[crooketarrow]

  The kind of points you use don't have any bearings to the way the shoot out of a slow selfbow. But the weight dose. A heavyer head adds to spine the light takes away. Closer your bow is to center shot the less spine is critial.
  Went I knap hunting heads I knap mine with out the barbs. I knap the backs slanted in like a ZWICKY or that try of head. That way you can shoot them and pull them out all day if you use a foam block.
  Before I hunt with them resharpen them.