finnaly got to slip the string

[Scott Beitzel]

today after all the food festivities i strung up my new board bow with a new self made string pretty pround so far . and went to the neighbors house to cut loose at his target . i shot about 10-15 times and actually only missed the 3x3 target 2 times . still trying to catch on to the no sight thing .

but i have one question it seems like my arrows are fishtailing  not all the time but quite often . is this a problem with longbows or maybe my tech which i don't have much of one right now  but always looking for advice will do some searching .

thanks for reading a long winded speach lol.

Scott

[BWD]

Do searchs for bow tuning and arrow tuning.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

what is your brace hight right now? You might play with that some first. post back and more things to fix can be given.

[Scott Beitzel]

did some searching and maybe i might be over spined i think  my bow is right at 50 lbs at 29.5 inchs i am shooting goldtips 5575 with 125 tips 29.5 inch arrow length  and it was the first shots on a new string but i have streached it for 2 nights on the bow it sstarted at 8 and is now at 7 1/4.
like i said i am new and ready to learn.. already wanting to build another bow.... this is quite addicting

thanks,
Scott

[Big Ed]

Sounds to be overspined. I would bump the tip weight up to at least 200-250 grns. on a 55/75. Cheaper than new arrows. Worth a try.

[wingnut]

Yep your overspined by a good margin.  With a selfbow or in this case a boardbow, you will find that arrow will need to be spined 5 -10 pounds under the draw weight to fly well.  Takes more to get them around the riser.  So with a 50 at 29.5, we are looking at a 45 @ 28 bow.  So wtih your arrows you will need about 320 gr up front to get the spine where you need it.

Mike