I have mostly shot carbon arrows but recently I have gotten into shooting wood. I got a test kit and found the arrows that flew the best for me. I ordered my first set of custom shafts but I didn't think about having them made in a specific weight range ( I didn't have a scale until last night) So my question is do wood arrows react much to weight change in the shafts? I weighed the two arrows I had from the test kit and they were within a grain of eachother. I hope I don't have much trouble getting my new arrows to fly. Thanks in advance.
Josh
In my experience, it takes quite a bit of shaft weight to make much of a difference. It's not like changing point weight. Within a single species of wood I find it to be irrelevant.
Wood arrows will vary both in spine and in weight. The spine differences will affect mostly your left/right point of impact, while the weight differences will affect mostly your up/down point of impact. I like to keep mine within 5# of spine and 10 grains of weight. Within those tolerances, I'm pretty sure any misses of more than a couple of inches are because of something I did and not the arrow's fault.
We have found that people who do mostly target shooting like lighter mass weight and hunters like weights that are a bit heavier. This is just a rule of thumb. As stated in past threads we feel that spine weight is much more important than mass weight. In mass weight, just try to keep all your arrows within about 20 or 30 grains of each other, where spine should be 4 or 5# of each other. Steve
Hi Josh, they will be very close to those. I am confident you will find them to your liking. Anytime you vary 10grs or less you won't notice a difference.
If Snag made up your arrows, you don't have to worry a bit about quality and consistency.
I knew I didn't have to worry about quality and consistency coming from David. I was just curious if they were 20 30 grains different than my test arrows would I experience different arrow flight. I'm not sure how much shafts varry in weight that are the same spine. I've said it before but I never knew natural shafts with white feathers could look so good. I am deffinately looking forward to shooting woodies. Thanks for your input guys.
Josh