Rob,
Where (along the shaft) do your "iron footed" arrows break, if they do?
Dave

QuoteOriginally posted by Davesea:
Rob,
Where (along the shaft) do your "iron footed" arrows break, if they do?
Dave

haven't broken one yet.  

Swamp Yankee I do use lead, more often than brass now. With hardwood footings strength is not a problem so I am just looking for more weight and FOC. It is the added weight up front not the added stiffness/strength that lowers the spine in my opinion. The stiffness is only in a limited one to three inches at the very end of the shaft. However I have heard that adding weight to the very back of the shaft at the nock adds spine, have not experimented with this.

Thanks for posting the photos....  

I have been using the jig as shown above and experimenting quite a bit las year. First off, I have drilled shafts that were already tapered and have not had any problem. There is a longer drill bit made and sold for this jig so you can drill deeper. I usually drill through the jig and when I remove the shafts the hole aligns the bit if I want to drill a little deeper. It doesn't wander out the side.
Being in construction I have a variety of nails or rods around. Different size or steel nails can raeally weigh in different. I put some 16 penny galvanized casing nails in some arrows last years. I cut them to the .length that was the weight I desired. They actually weigh in more than lead wire and are stronger.
Easy to tinker with.

I tried buying the jig at the Kalamazoo show, but nobody had one for sale, so I went to the machine shop at my work, and told the guy what I wanted along with the size holes needed, and for the price of a mexican lunch I had my very own internal footing jig.