Gold tip 22 series arrows are thin walled and not real durable. When I shot 3d with them I had some actually snap in the targets. So for hunting I am not sure they would stand up to the beating you might give them, especially with all that weight up front.
You guys do realize the longer you dabble about what arrow to shoot you are costing yourself hunting time. But hey what do I know...
shoot whatever floats your boat, we all want to be happy. been shooting pigs year around for over three years with gt .22's never had a structural failure yet.
arrow stays in pig it's probably toast, passthrough probably good doesn't matter much what shaft. shoot a bunch of pigs you will break some arrows, just happens but structural failure not seeing it.
not saying anyone should shoot them, just saying if they interest you don't let anyone run you off the idea.
I like those numbers ! I'd prolly be shooting 275fps with that arrow. Good stuff Newman. What was the fine verdict with spine testing
I'm still testing. That arrow is 28 long. Thinking about cutting and adding more weight. That arrow has 275 total up,front. Have not done any tuning yet.
Also. Just to let you know. If I back them numbers out that makes my ibo 361. Hehe
I did shoot one fletch and one bare. The bare was straight above the fletch about 2 inches this was at 20 yards
Guy contacted me and wanted some arrows. Offered to build a 612 @ 24.5%, for him......... He never responded once I came back with the specs......... Said he needed to be between 40-50%?
Guy contacted me and wanted some arrows. Offered to build a 612 @ 24.5%, for him......... He never responded once I came back with the specs......... Said he needed to be between 40-50%?
Guy contacted me and wanted some arrows. Offered to build a 612 @ 24.5%, for him......... He never responded once I came back with the specs......... Said he needed to be between 40-50%?
Whats he hunting? T-Rex? :-)
Is that even possible?
Off the top of my head I'd say a EFOC Grizzly Stick in 175 spine and what like 500 grains up front?
UEFOC; yes it is possible, it's anything north of 30%. You just can't do practically speaking with a conventional shaft. There is a threshold at around 26% where we just rap the shaft out in terms of spine, even at shorter arrow lengths. Couple that amount of tip weight with somebody shooting 70#'s, shaft is going to be weak. You are looking
at a tapered shaft to build that type of UEFOC, or should I say build it properly.
UEFOC; yes it is possible, it's anything north of 30%. You just can't do practically speaking with a conventional shaft. There is a threshold at around 26% where we just rap the shaft out in terms of spine, even at shorter arrow lengths. Couple that amount of tip weight with somebody shooting 70#'s, shaft is going to be weak. You are looking
at a tapered shaft to build that type of UEFOC, or should I say build it properly.
Off the top of my head I'd say a EFOC Grizzly Stick in 175 spine and what like 500 grains up front?
That's how you do it. Just remember guys, 100 grains is only going to get you about 5-6% increase in FOC. So I had 24.5% with 320 up front that means I would have to add about 120 to get to 30+%, that's 440 grains tip weight. That 250 Carnivore isn't going to hold that at 27.750 x 70#'s.
Just to look. I took the test arrow. Nits 28 in carbon to carbon. It has 18 gn fletch. With 50 gn insert and a 225 gn tip. I installed a 435 gn tip. It now has 33 % foc. So It took a total of 485 gn up front just to get to 33% foc. So over 800 gn up front to get to 50% foc with the arrow I have. Don't think I would shoot it. But I'm fixing to shoot the one with the 435 gn tip
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