I bought a dozen kaos arrows fletched them up and I noticed the arrows were kicking high left. I went to lake country archery shop and had Richard help me figure it out. I first thought the fletching was hitting on the cables as it was pretty close to them. I put some wheel bearing / archery grease on the fletching so we could find contact and it was hitting on the bottom of the rest. Simple fix, we just oriented the fletchings to where it's not hitting. Ok so paper tuning... Richard couldn't get a descent tear so he twisted the nock to a different cock vane and got a different tear. See where this is going? So twisted it again and got a different tear. So indexing the 3 different cockvanes resulted in 3 different tears. Inconsistent spine? So I had 1 bareshaft in the truck of the same arrow and I also had a Easton axis fmj all the same spine (.340) and the Easton performed as it should. And the bareshaft did as well. On all 3 arrows were indexed 120 degrees and the fletched Easton and the bareshaft gold tip showed the same tear at each rotation. So I got home and decided to shoot the rest of the gold tips through paper and see if I just had a bad arrow. Bad news- 8 of the 12 gold tip kinetic kaos had in consistent spine. I'm going to call it a loss and not mess with trying to orient the spine for the arrows I don't have that kind of time. But I'm the mean time here are some of the results that the axis fmj shot.
First pic is walk back tuning which I kind of so backwards but it works. I walked back to 100 yards and get my windage pretty good and then walk up to about 20 yards and shoot 1 arrow and adjust from there. Here are the results... No adjustments needed.
I decided to take the arrow I shot the fletching off of and strip the vanes and see what the whole bare shaft tuning was about. 20 yards same point of impact just a tad nock high.
The third pic is messing around at 30 with the bare shaft and I was pretty impressed that it hit basically the same point of impact but a tad more nick high.
I didn't take a pic but I did shoot a bare shaft at 40 yards and it was on its way until it got so nock high that the point went under the 3 d target. I'm pretty happy with this and IMO I don't think it can be tuned much better. Maybe this will help somebody that is having issues. I have shot gold tips for years but I'm not very happy with the results of these.
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First pic is walk back tuning which I kind of so backwards but it works. I walked back to 100 yards and get my windage pretty good and then walk up to about 20 yards and shoot 1 arrow and adjust from there. Here are the results... No adjustments needed.
I decided to take the arrow I shot the fletching off of and strip the vanes and see what the whole bare shaft tuning was about. 20 yards same point of impact just a tad nock high.
The third pic is messing around at 30 with the bare shaft and I was pretty impressed that it hit basically the same point of impact but a tad more nick high.
I didn't take a pic but I did shoot a bare shaft at 40 yards and it was on its way until it got so nock high that the point went under the 3 d target. I'm pretty happy with this and IMO I don't think it can be tuned much better. Maybe this will help somebody that is having issues. I have shot gold tips for years but I'm not very happy with the results of these.
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