I am new to bowhunting and hoping to try my hand at a turkey in a few weeks here. I'm shooting goldtip 35-55 arrows right now out of a selfbow but I bought a shakespeare 50 pound recurve that should be here any time, so that's what I'll be shooting mostly. I have 125 grain field points and some 125 grain magnus 2 blade broadheads that hopefully will work well and I can use for turkey, but my whole arrow weighs only around 375 grains, had to weigh it on a kitchen scale so it could be a little off, but that seems light.

So do you think that is too light? I see a lot of people talking about 500-600 grain total weight, so if it is too light what is a good way to add a little weight? I've heard parachute chord, do you just put it inside the arrow?

Any help is apreciated, THANKS

i don't like real heavy arrows but i do like at least 9gr per pound. You are shooting less than 8 based on a 28in draw length. That's a little light (for me). The easiest way (to me) to add weight to gold tips is to get 50 or 100 grain brass inserts. i have a few extra 50 grain that i can send you to try if you will pm me your address.

I like to keep my arrows in the 9-11 gpp,but don't like to shoot arrows less then 8 gpp.I shoot GT XT 35/55 black shaft out of one of my bows,and with a 125 pr point it is closer to 400 grs..What is your draw length,the recurve you having coming is most likely 50#@28.You can usally figure about 2&1/2-3# per inch plus or minus form 28".

I think the easiest way is to put on an insert, as rastaman said..

Stu's Spine Calculator says if you leave them @ 29,25" long, a 50 gn insert is perfect, but chop them to 28" if you want a 100gn insert.

100gn will weigh more, have higher FOC (21,5 instead of 18) but be slower.. I think ^^

375gr arra outta 50# holding weight is gonna give ya noise and hand shock, not to mention what it'll do to shake up the bow build.

stick with 10gpp missles (10x50# = 500gr arra) and both you and yer bow will be happy campers.

What Rob said!  H

Sounds to me like you may not have done any real bareshafting for tune. By doing that and adjusting spine with tip weight you should end up with a reasonably weighted well tuned arrow.

The real advantage of shooting carbon (besides how tough they are) is that you can shoot with a lot of weight up front which can favorably affect aerodynamics and penetration on game.

Loading up the interior of the shaft with weight tubes or all the other crap that some guys stuff in them, only gives you weight increase and little else.

Ok thanks a lot everyone, sounds like I need some more weight up front.