What is the tip weight and what is the total arrow weight to you guys hunt with?

Oh yeah!  

Do you tune your bow to your arrows or vice versa?

425grn arrows, 52lb bow at 29 inches.125 grn Magnus Stingers.

Arrows to the bow,but I may fine tune a little with the bow by changing brace or center shot.I shoot a DAS so I may also increase or decrease preload a little to fine tune an arrow.

125 grn. field points and Zwickey's.

POC shafts, dipped crested finish weight close to 460 grains.... Work fine for deer and black bear.


John III

Tune the arrows, mostly by cutting off slowly, but I use CX terminator hunters.  Put 50 grain brass insert for one bow and 100 grain for another.  Complete arrows w/broadheads are 525 and 560 or so.

Bows are 63 and69 pounds at 28 but I only pull about 27.

I'm shooting about 360 grains up front - 50 grain brass insert, 190 grain El Grande, 125 grain steel adapter, My total arrow weight is around 650 grains.

I tune my arrows to the bow by cutting them down, but I also make some adjustments to brace height, and maybe even to the side plate if necessary to get the best flight using the point weight I want.

10 grains per pound of your draw will make a good hunting arrow. My arrows are GT3555's with a 50gr brass insert, total broadhead weight is 160 with adt. this gives me a 450gr arrow shooting out of a 45# grizzly at my draw. This setup will blow right through a deer  

Off my long bow,59@28,i shoot 190 grizz heads on ceader shafts for a total wt of 650grns/ my recurve is 44@28 and i shoot 145 ribtek off ceader shafts for total wt of 530 grns

I can only tune by tip weight as I need as much arrow I can get (32" draw).  Depending on the bow, I am using 225 - 300g of tip weight.  Arrows are around 675g.

Your results will likely vary...

145-160 gr BH on a 475 gr footed cedar shaft.
I tune my arrows to the bow.
I have tuned the bow to the arrows by changing strings-D97 to B50 if the arrows did not have enough spine. You can go the other way too.
This can be really useful if you want to change bows without a lot of prep time.

It depends on which bow I pick up.Most times however I am shoot 175-200gns on the front with a total weight in the mid to high 400s range.Once in a while I shoot lighter or heavier depending on how an arrow tunes but I don't really set out for a certain weight.I just shoot what tunes best for the broadhead I plan on useing.