Adding Point Weight Question

[Bowmania]

I'd like to add 30 ot 50 grains of weight to my point.  Here's the problem, can't use the PDP weight system the shaft is too thin and it's Easton, so I can't screw it in the insert.  Already using 300 gr field pts and 160 gr BH plus 125 adaptor.  The only thing I can think of is something that would screw into the insert and then have the field point screw into it.  They don't make such an animal as far as I know.  Anybody with ideas???

Bowmania

[JRY309]

Which Easton arrows are you shooting? You are already shooting a pretty heavy point weight,why are you wanting to add more weight upfront? It might affect your arrow tune.

[JimB]

Do you need that weight to get it tuned? Is it tuned now?If it required 30 more grains to be tuned,50 grs more would make it definitely too weak.I'm confused but just understand that high front end weight without proper tuning,isn't a good thing.A tuned setup insures that the broadhead hits the same place as the field points.

At any rate,the best way to add that weight if you truly need it is switch your broadhead to 190 or 200 grs.

[SlowBowinMO]

You'll need to change your components around a bit, but if you add a Woody Weight over the screw in adapter you can build obscenely heavy points if you want to, all the while using the standard insert.

I have two bows set up for 350 grains up front, and both are using the standard 11 grain aluminum insert.

We have Woody Weights you can see at the bottom of this page:

  "Points and More" Woody Weights at Braveheart Archery  

The Woody Weight would go over your adapter and under your points, field point or broadheads it doesn't matter you can build to suit.

[BOWMARKS]

I do not know what insert you have but I have run a 8-32 tap all the way thru giving me thread on the back end for weights.

[Ragnarok Forge]

Easy fix which also makes for a really tough arrow.  Go to your local archery shop and find the easton aluminum shaft that will fit over the carbon shaft fairly tight.  Cut them into pieces at 1.5 to two inches long.  That will give you 30 to 40 extra grains of weight.  When the arrow hits something hard it just bounces off and survives the hit.  The outsert does not change spine due to shaft length change, the weight does change it just a bit.

[Jim Wright]

You have described Eastons "skinny carbons" which use the H.I.T. inserts. You can simply buy some of their 50/75 grain break-off inserts, break them into the 50 and 25 grain pieces, decide which one you need and put some of the easton adhesive that comes with the inserts on the piece and push it in from the nock end behind the already installed insert with a rod small enough in diameter to fit inside the shaft. Roll up a piece of medium grit sandpaper tightly and sand just inside the shaft so that the insert starts easily.

[Bowmania]

The shaft I'm shooting (CraigsList 50 bucks) are ACC's, but the old Hyperspeed ACC.  They're thinner than the current ACC Superlite's.  Currently the shafts are shooting to the left (I'm righty) of where I look.  THe riser is made of elk antler and not cut to center so I need a lot of weight to bend the shaft around the riser.  I'm close but not there, a little more weight should do it.

Woodyweights sure look like they'd work.  And work for a lot more than 50 grains.  An aluminum shaft looks like it might be less work.  Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll let you know what I do, but for now it's get the taxes done so I can head to KS and chase turkeys.

Bowmania

PS For others interested in adding weight, I love that PDP system.  Just won't work with Easton unless you have the tap that Bowmarks has.  And in my case the shaft is too thin.