Well, with deer season finally winding down, I've been able over the last couple weeks start playing with the "warm up" set of limbs for my buffalo bow. They are 67lbs @28", so at my draw, I'm getting something close to 65lbs or so.
I've been working on bare shafting my arrows to get the best possible flight I possibly can out of them, and it's been kicking my butt. I started with a Carbon Express Heritage 250 shaft cut at 30" with a 100gr brass insert, footed by a 2" section of aluminum arrow and 250 grain point and slowly cut it down 1/8" or so at a time to get the spine as close to perfect as possible. Not shooting much over the last couple months, plus jumping up to such a heavy weight that I have never shot before has made it a bit tough. With the way I shoot, the cock feather has always been my "clicker" so to speak, as I release as soon as it hits my cheek. With the bare shafts, my clicker isn't there, so it's not automatic for me to release when I get to my anchor spot, throwing that in with trying to be sure I actually get to full draw with these heavy limbs, after a dozen or so shots a night, my release starts to fall apart so I have to call it quits. I finally reached a point where my arrow was just a touch weak and hitting nock high still, but getting really close to being right on the edge of being to short for comfort (to me) so I called it good and finally fletched one up to see how it flew. The shaft ended up being 28 1/8" long, and with 3 4" feathers total setup weighed in at just under 700gr!
I took a few shots at a blank bale in the shop I have set up for tuning just to see if it was flying fairly close to be bare shafts, as well as flying straight and it seemed to be. I walked outside and took my very first shot ever out of the bow at an actual spot to see how it faired. I was definitely pleased and even more surprised with my very first shot at an actual target ..
I'm hoping me and this rig continue to get along as I get to feeling more comfortable with the heavy poundage and transition to my 76lb set of limbs in the coming months. Still going to play with a couple more arrow combinations to see if I can come up with something else that shoots as good or better. This whole arrow tuning/bare shafting business is a whole new ballgame for me, so we shall see how it all goes!
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I've been working on bare shafting my arrows to get the best possible flight I possibly can out of them, and it's been kicking my butt. I started with a Carbon Express Heritage 250 shaft cut at 30" with a 100gr brass insert, footed by a 2" section of aluminum arrow and 250 grain point and slowly cut it down 1/8" or so at a time to get the spine as close to perfect as possible. Not shooting much over the last couple months, plus jumping up to such a heavy weight that I have never shot before has made it a bit tough. With the way I shoot, the cock feather has always been my "clicker" so to speak, as I release as soon as it hits my cheek. With the bare shafts, my clicker isn't there, so it's not automatic for me to release when I get to my anchor spot, throwing that in with trying to be sure I actually get to full draw with these heavy limbs, after a dozen or so shots a night, my release starts to fall apart so I have to call it quits. I finally reached a point where my arrow was just a touch weak and hitting nock high still, but getting really close to being right on the edge of being to short for comfort (to me) so I called it good and finally fletched one up to see how it flew. The shaft ended up being 28 1/8" long, and with 3 4" feathers total setup weighed in at just under 700gr!
I took a few shots at a blank bale in the shop I have set up for tuning just to see if it was flying fairly close to be bare shafts, as well as flying straight and it seemed to be. I walked outside and took my very first shot ever out of the bow at an actual spot to see how it faired. I was definitely pleased and even more surprised with my very first shot at an actual target ..
I'm hoping me and this rig continue to get along as I get to feeling more comfortable with the heavy poundage and transition to my 76lb set of limbs in the coming months. Still going to play with a couple more arrow combinations to see if I can come up with something else that shoots as good or better. This whole arrow tuning/bare shafting business is a whole new ballgame for me, so we shall see how it all goes!
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