Arrow weight

[shag08]

I know where you are coming from brother. I worried myself to death over arrows and gpp and foc etc for far too long. I'm no expert by any means at any of this. Very seldom do I make a post on things that I'm sure others know more about than myself. I just feel for you cause I've been there.

I'd just shoot what tunes/flies the best. Stay in the manufactures "safe gpp range" and have fun.

I tried, just like you, to shoot stiffer spined arrows with lots of weight up front and it just wouldn't work for me....slow as smoke by the time they flew straight.

I've got a full length, bare shaft 35-55 I used for testing. You are welcome to have it to try out a weaker arrow if you want it. I think I may have a few other bare shats in different lengths that didn't work for me that you can have too.  PM me an address and I'd be glad to let you have them.

And remember...as they always say...it's the shot placement that brings down game. Not an extra heavy arrow that misses the mark.

[Tracker2]

Your arrow is too stiff. Add a brass insert and go over 200gr in the point and you would be amazed how much better and arrow will fly!
Like Bisch said, 250 is probably how heavy you will have to go to get them to fly! I always have around if not over, 200gr on the end of my arrows

[LittleBen]

With arrow stiffness you have to remember that spine and point weight affect stiffness in a linear fashion ... i.e. double point weight and arrow stiffness drops by half, double spine and stiffness doubles.

Arrow length is exponential, so if you half the arrow length, the stiffness increases by 4x.

The reason I mention this is because arrow length is absolutely critical. 55/75 might be ok, but probably at full length with the point weight you're talkiing about, assuming your bow is at or near centershot.

If theose 55/75's are cut down, they become very stiff, very quickly.

[Matt Parker]

I cut my arrows to 30 inches.

[Biathlonman]

Grab an SBD string and a 30" 5575 will work great with about 200 up front.