Hi guys,
I stumbled across Easton's shaft chart for their aluminum arrows today and when I plugged in the info on my recurves, literally all of the shafts they recommended for my bows were stiffer than anything I previously shot or was told by other trad shooters was correct. For instance, for my 49# recurve shooting 29" shafts with 125 grain tips it said I should be shooting 2117s. For my 55#er it said I should be shooting 2216s and for my 60#er it said I should be shooting 2315s. Does anyone else use their recommendations and how has it worked out for you? I have not tried shooting these stiffer shafts yet because we are covered in a little snow today and a lot of wind here today in Maryland. I appreciate your thoughts.

The new chart seems on the stiff side to me. Someone posted the old chart a while back, and it was pretty accurate IMO. Maybe someone can chime in or post a link to it.

Joe2Crow,
Like most anything it's only a starting point. You can tune the recommended arrows by changing the point weight, arrow length and also the type and strand count of your bowstring. As I said, it's only a starting point.

Regards,
Grouse

Without knowing more it's hard to say, but, all things being generic (recurve and B50 string, cut to center shelf) I'd say 2016s cut 29.5 w/125gr point and three 5" feathers would be close.

You'd need some heavy points on the 2117 out of the 49# recurve. Or a shelf cut past center. Or both.

But to answer your primary question, yes, the Easton chart seems to recommend shafts on the stiff side.

QuoteOriginally posted by stickem1:
The new chart seems on the stiff side to me. Someone posted the old chart a while back, and it was pretty accurate IMO. Maybe someone can chime in or post a link to it.

From our very own Kelly's personal site....Thanks Kelly.

 http://www.arrowskp.com/Spine_Charts.html

If you have a 3 Rivers Archery catalog the spine chart in there seems to work on my bows pretty well. Much better than the Easton.

The old chart is archived here on the How-to section.
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000073