Top Mistakes Bowhunters Make When Buying Arrows
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- In a world of plentiful options, most folks tend to follow the trends. Total arrow weights, FOC percentages, and broadhead selection all seem to follow the hot trend of the day. While there's nothing wrong with trying new things, it's wrong to blindly jump in with two feet. It is always best to educate yourself and tinker before settling on the arrow setup you plan to hunt with.
While we're new to the archery world from a manufacturing point, we are anything but new to educating ourselves and tinkering. Here's some of the mistakes we have made over the last decade and some of the most common mistakes we see when interacting with customers when it comes to purchasing hunting arrows.
BELIEVE STRAIGHTER IS BETTER
Reading this title, some of you may be thinking I'm full of BS but before I lose you hear me out as we have spent many man hours testing this out of a shooting machine.
SELECTING THE WRONG SPINE
Selecting the wrong static spine for your hunting arrow is an Achilles heel right from the start. Being underspined or too far over spined can keep you from achieve your ultimate goal of perfect arrow flight.
When selecting your ideal hunting arrow spine it's important to factor in things outside of your draw weight, draw length, and point weight. Often times people over look the actual length of the arrow vs their draw length. Also archery hunters tend to not think about any additional front weight coming in from front end components. All of this will effect the spine of your hunting arrow shaft. By adding arrow length and/or weight up front you increase the amount of deflection in the arrow shaft. Doing the opposite will give you less deflection.
NOT UNDERSTANDING YOUR FULL SETUP
Every setup has pros and cons, and it goes much beyond the arrow shaft.
Go super heavy and you're arrow will be super slow leaving no room for yardage errors however you'll have momentum on your side. Go super light and your arrow will be fast but have less momentum.
IGNORING THE BACK END
Taking time to think about proper nock fit isn't sexy and for most bowhunters it's not even a thought until there's a problem. In reality your arrow's nock is the single component responsible for transferring the work from your bow into energy and momentum in your arrow. When you take that prospective it's much more obvious your arrow's nock can dramatic influence your arrow's flight, accuracy, and clocking.
If you experience your arrow rising or lifting off your rest when drawing your bow you know you have a problem. If you can see or feel slop between the nock's throat and bow string you know you also have a problem. I would argue being too loose is better than being too tight but neither is really acceptable.
Proper nock fit revolves around understanding the total diameter of your bowstring where the center serving size, nocking point, is located. If you're like the majority of people and have no idea the actual diameter you can easily take a measurement with a micrometer. If you're still shooting factory strings a simple inquiry to the bow manufacturer should reveal the needed info. If you're running after market strings, you're string maker should have the diameter on record also.
Proper nock fit should be snug but not overly tight. An easy test is too nock and arrow, hold your bow horizontal with the string up, proceed to smack the string. If the arrow comes off your nock fit is ok. If the arrow doesn't want to leave the string then you likely have a problem. On the flip slide if the arrow leaves the string without much force or has lots of wiggle then your nock is likely too loose.
BUYING BASED ON THE "COOL" FACTOR
Although this point is subjective, most archery hunters who truly care about maximizing performance in from every aspect will agree. Arrow wraps and wild branding really have no place on arrow builds for archery hunters looking to maximize performance. If the individual component is not aiding in better performance than it doesn't belong on your hunting arrow.
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Correction: straightness matters when it comes to fix broadheads , and tuning them. It makes a huge difference.
100% huge difference!!!!!!!
A lot of good information. As someone who owns a bow but just mostly shot a target in the backyard years ago, this has helped me understand a lot of things I never knew about. But now I know what I would need to look at going forward if I wanted to make this a hobby again. Interesting and well informed video. Thanks!
Great, no REALLY great
presentation of practical things
which REALLY MATTER.
Good stuff ✔ 👍👍
This is the exact video I was looking for, love the info. Great stuff!
I think this just saved me some time and frustration
Thank you
Awesome video. Being a new bow hunter, this information is so valuable. Thank you Fellas!
Great Tips 😎🎥🎯
Good content and kudos for a educational video and helping some of the nebs understand the basics.
I’d like to see y’all do a detailed bow build for a heavier arrow. I live in hog country so I want the peace of mind of penetrating a hog no matter where I hit them. Not worried about the deer as they are soft, and a good set up will punch them. I’m on a heavier arrow and just want to make sure my bow has been done right. I could prolly shave a few grains by going to a different spine since I’m kinda in the middle of the 2. Current arrow is 250 spine and 10.7 gr/inch and the 300 spine arrow is 8.7.
What straightness is the Exodus arrows and how do you guys determine that compared to the other manufacturers?
I hunt with arrows I bought at Walmart. They have worked perfectly for me and at the time I'm not going to change a thing. I don't chase fads and just do what works for me.
It’s really all about what you want to do with archery. Many are just like you and the main thing is that you can group well and understand your limitations. Then just be happy with that. Sounds like you are. Good deal
been shooting $5 kryptos arrows from walmart for years, 3" groups at 50 yards after index and refletch, 445-450 grains total.
I would say the biggest mistake I made when I was younger was not buying the same errors consistently I would always try and switch it up and even to the day in the corner I have three or four arrows of six or seven different brands
Straightness does matter when shooting wide fixed blade broadheads, especially at longer ranges.
I ordered some arrow shafts a few weeks ago and they still haven't shipped so ill be using last years arrows most likely since everything these days is delayed or on a shortage. Buy your arrows last year lol.
Again love the podcast just now checking out the RUclips version but it was a great video for beginners for sure. ***** < 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Love the standard diameter shafts too👍
Thanks guys
Great information! 👏👏
USA made shafts and components?
When is the giveaway
So…..how exactly does “static spine” not relate to “dynamic spine”?
You keep saying my name so I subscribed lol ❤
You can take A 6000 or 3000 straighteness arrow straightness arrow and make it straight as a 1000 just cut out the junk If you build your own arrows and you cut your own arrows you fledge them yourself they need to spend tested them and see whhich ends Wobbles the most cut that in doubt also I thought he was talking about the back of the arrow not just the knock fit but taking the knock out and squaring the arrow cause if your knock does not fit that arrow flush all the way around one side is flush more than the Either the string is gonna push The arrow and different contact like say you're not fixing and a little bit of an angle so that's already gonna be correcting your error what's a little bit of an angle
The pin gap and trajectory argument for whitetail hunting just doesn’t add up to me
errrm :confused the chit out me! didnt help any.. no thumbs..
thanks for the advice, great advice, go to a proshop,
Where the hell did you get that magnificent binoculars range harness????
That bino harness is made by Outdoor Vision
You are wrong about pin gaps and heavy arrows. Just sayin. The gap between pins are almost the same distance apart at 15, 25, and 35 on my set up (28.5 draw / 70# / 700 gr). Look at light arrows and check out how quickly the pins spread out. Light arrows lose speed much quicker than a heavy arrows thus the reason for increased distance between the pins. Using the same pin my 700 grain arrow only hits an inch lower than a 450 grain arrow at 20 yards. I'll be waitin' on the haters.
There is some truth to that. An increase of velocity will 2x the drag, so for instance if you double the velocity you 4x the drag. With that being said, not all builds are created equal. If you can force the arrow into equilibrium faster, creating a smaller turbulent layer, that statement is not true.
Sounds like you're the only hater here
He’s also wrong about straightness. It matters as soon as you screw on fixed blade broadheads.
@@cantfoou when is a straight arrow straight? Only at rest. The point here is that a .006” vs .001” is negligible at best for 95% of us. If it matters to you we’ll then congrats you must be in the top 5% of shooters in the world that can shoot consistent enough to see the difference.
@@chadsyl23 riight, go shoot your bow superstar.
I have a 70 lb bow with 30 inch draw can I shoot a carbon 30 inch arrow 250 grain .400 spine and a 125 grain tip ?
You would want to shoot a 300 spine or 250 spine with that setup depending on the IBO and brace height of your bow. But 400 spine is way too weak
I guess you have never had problems with broadheads on wobbly arrows
What arrows do I buy to bring the biggest bucks in?
The Exodus MMT!
How do I get my MMT arrows to fly in my bow?
I shoot the cheapest I can find I just practice and turn to them when hunting you will lose it or break it
These are 300 spines.... (Clearly says 350) Lol
I cannot take you seriously when you can even get your arrows cut to the correct length of your bow… you showed a clip and the dude had his arrow sticking out 2-3” past the rest
Great footage of a dear being gut shot👎
What straightness is the Exodus arrows and how do you guys determine that compared to the other manufacturers?