Outdoors Insider, with Dale Sunderlin: Feelin’ a little squirrelly
DALE SUNDERLIN Star Beacon
your fletched shafts, your spine is too stiff. To correct this problem you can increase the poundage on your bow, increase your point weight, increase your arrow length, move your rest to the right (for release shooters), decrease the cushion plunger tension (for finger shooters) or choose an arrow with less spine.
If your bare shafts are impacting to the right of your fletched shafts, your spine is too weak. To correct this problem you can decrease the poundage on your bow, decrease your arrow length, decrease your point weight, move your rest to the left (for release shooters), increase the cushion plunger tension (for finger shooters) or choose an arrow with more spine.
Tuning broadheads
Some bowhunters screw broadheads onto their arrows and never give a thought to blade alignment. My experience and testing indicates demonstrable differences in accuracy when blade alignment is used for shooting fixed blade broadheads.
As an arrow flies, a constant battle takes place between the blades of a broadhead and an arrow’s vanes. Both influence the control of an arrow’s flight. The longer the vane and the more helical, the better control you will have over your broadhead. I myself use 4- to 5-inch vanes for hunting purposes. I use a vane with a slight right helical to control the 80-grain broadhead I use, but I also align my blades to my fletching. I’ve found that I have more control in accuracy, especially on longer shots. The last step entails the use of an arrow spin tester to see if your broadheads and nocks spin symmetrically.
Center shot
Properly setting your center shot will also eliminate erratic arrow flight. This is achieved by adjusting your rest or cushion plunger button. There are a number of good devices on the market for this procedure.
For release shooters, it should be set directly down the center of the arrow. For finger shooters the arrow should be set slightly left of center.
Using a bow square, release shooters should begin by setting their nock point slightly above 90 degrees to the bowstring. Fingers shooters should begin by setting their nock point at about 3⁄8-inch above square. All adjustments should be made in 1⁄32-inch increments.
Tuning for broadheads
This next step will keep you from having to adjust your sight pins for hunting season. After you have successfully performed the tuning tests listed above and have found the perfectly spined arrow, you are ready for the following fine-tuning procedures.
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