How many grains?

[mscampbell75]

What is the tip weight and what is the total arrow weight to you guys hunt with?

[mscampbell75]

Oh yeah!  

Do you tune your bow to your arrows or vice versa?

[R H Clark]

425grn arrows, 52lb bow at 29 inches.125 grn Magnus Stingers.

Arrows to the bow,but I may fine tune a little with the bow by changing brace or center shot.I shoot a DAS so I may also increase or decrease preload a little to fine tune an arrow.

[John3]

125 grn. field points and Zwickey's.

POC shafts, dipped crested finish weight close to 460 grains.... Work fine for deer and black bear.


John III

[LKH]

Tune the arrows, mostly by cutting off slowly, but I use CX terminator hunters.  Put 50 grain brass insert for one bow and 100 grain for another.  Complete arrows w/broadheads are 525 and 560 or so.

Bows are 63 and69 pounds at 28 but I only pull about 27.

[fyrfyter43]

I'm shooting about 360 grains up front - 50 grain brass insert, 190 grain El Grande, 125 grain steel adapter, My total arrow weight is around 650 grains.

I tune my arrows to the bow by cutting them down, but I also make some adjustments to brace height, and maybe even to the side plate if necessary to get the best flight using the point weight I want.

[Stone Knife]

10 grains per pound of your draw will make a good hunting arrow. My arrows are GT3555's with a 50gr brass insert, total broadhead weight is 160 with adt. this gives me a 450gr arrow shooting out of a 45# grizzly at my draw. This setup will blow right through a deer  

[jimmerc]

Off my long bow,59@28,i shoot 190 grizz heads on ceader shafts for a total wt of 650grns/ my recurve is 44@28 and i shoot 145 ribtek off ceader shafts for total wt of 530 grns

[BobW]

I can only tune by tip weight as I need as much arrow I can get (32" draw).  Depending on the bow, I am using 225 - 300g of tip weight.  Arrows are around 675g.

Your results will likely vary...

[Bjorn]

145-160 gr BH on a 475 gr footed cedar shaft.
I tune my arrows to the bow.
I have tuned the bow to the arrows by changing strings-D97 to B50 if the arrows did not have enough spine. You can go the other way too.
This can be really useful if you want to change bows without a lot of prep time.

[James Wrenn]

It depends on which bow I pick up.Most times however I am shoot 175-200gns on the front with a total weight in the mid to high 400s range.Once in a while I shoot lighter or heavier depending on how an arrow tunes but I don't really set out for a certain weight.I just shoot what tunes best for the broadhead I plan on useing.