Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: twisted hickory on September 05, 2013, 10:33:12 pm
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I just finished tuning a set of this falls huNting/practice arrows. I always wondered how bare shafting would work. Here is what I did.
1. Get finish on arrows as well as points full length. 32 in.
2. Shot them. The first round they were really weak at 20 yards. They shot 2 foot to the right ( I am right handed).
3. I took points off and cut .25 inches off them till they were near where I was aiming at 20 yards.
4. Backed out to 25 then 30 yards. Had to cut another 3/8 inch off them.
After all this the arrows hit where aiming at 30 yards if my release is good.
Tomorrow I will begin fletching them. Btw, one of the arrows had to be cut 1/2 shorter than the rest cause I hit wood and busted off tip .it shoots a bit stiff. Surprising how half inch makes it shoot stiff.
Hope someone else can use this to get clean arrow flight. Now I just gotta get within 20 yards of a deer :)
Greg
Greg
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Yup, that's bareshaft tuning alrightey!
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I agree.Now just add another 25gr to the tip of that short one too and you're set to go.
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Good point, Fred (pun intended). A little extra weight in the tip will bring that one back into the fold with the rest of the set. No sense having an odd arrow in the quiver.
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I got a 145 which will go on the stiff arra. :)
I have never bare shaft tuned w a long bow before. Surprising how well they fly without feathers to 25 yards. Good release is important.
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Theoretically an arrow that is long enough and with enough of a forward-of-center balance point would not need fletching. However, it may inconvenient carrying 7 ft long arrows.