Dual purpose arrows?

[-Joseph]

Trad bow - 45# @ 28"

Wheelie bow 60# @ 29"

Is is possible to effectively shoot the same arrow from both bows?  I am at the point of needing to refletch a bunch of my aluminum arrow because I have been plinking in the dirt with them on my trad bow.  So I thought that I would like to step up to carbon for durability issues.  I use an elevated rest on my bow so vanes will work fine.  Any thoughts?

-Joseph

[JRY309]

Thats a big difference in those two bows.The one will require a stiff arrow and the 45#@28 trad bow will most likely take a lot weaker spined arrow.I've shot the same arrow out of four different trad bows,they were within 8# draw weight,just changed the point weight.You can shoot them from both bows,but how effectly will they preform.I think that is too big of weight difference.

[Ragnarok Forge]

Nope,  No way I know of to make one set work.

Clay

[Orion]

Never know unless you try it.  It just might work.  A compound is rather gentle on an arrow, compared to a trad bow.  I.e., it gets the arrow moving a little before it applies the full force near the middle of the shot.  A trad bow applies the most force/energy to the arrow immediately at release.  A compound can shoot a real stiff arrow, but it doesn't have to. And most traditional bows can be overspined and still shoot well.  I typically overspine by 10-15# on my recurves and hybrids.  So, an arrow spined mid-way between, or even closer to or at the the wheelie bow's spine just might work.  Good luck.

[-Joseph]

I don't have a lot of room or money and more arrows takes up both of those.  Plus I have another bow I want to make a shooter that is around 30# @ 28" so I know that will get a set all it's own unless I share the to two trad bow arrows, and just use one set for my new fangled bow.

On a side note I have been shooting my Easton 2216's out of my trad bow with mild success, so that is why I wondered if something can go together so I don't have to buy/store so many sets of arrows.

-Joseph

[iacornfed]

I shoot 55/70 carbon arrows out of my old compound it is 55lbs with 50 percent let off. The arrows are footed with a 2219 2" piece of aluminum on the front and 3/4" piece on the nock end. I use 125 grain broadhead for shooting with my recurve and longbow and a 100 grain point for my compound. The arrows are 31" long. The tradbows are are 50lbs pull at 28" they are center cut. This works for me. but then again I am not an obsessive compulsive type! I just try stuff and if it works good enough I am happy.

[Chris Shelton]

Well alot of these guys will say no way, it is wrong by the books, lol.  Little do they know . . .

I started my traditional archery career with my compound carbon arrows.  My compound was 55# and my new recurve was 40#.  The arrows were spined 55/65 because I was working up with the compound and I was just about to move up to 60#.  I had those arrows cut to exactly 28.5 with a hundred grain thunderhead and made a perfect 23 yard shot on a whitetail that very first trip afeild with that 40# recurve and those 55/65 spined carbon arrows.  They were about a half inch two short, whe I had on the broadhead they would be totally up against the riser, and they had vanes.  All wrong by the book.  But it worked just fine.  This is my first year of doing things by the book.  First year I have ever shot arrows cut to length before now I had left them full length, had about 4 inches hangin over.  No way they will bare shaft good, but it will work.  

For the last two years I have been shooting 340 beeman ICS bowhunter shafts with my 55# bow, cut to full length so that helped with the darastically wrong spine.  But I got them spined like that on purpose, because I wanted a shaft that will shoot out of all my bows, from 40# to 70#, just my recurves(I dont shoot a compound anymore).  Of course they were flu flu's and that does matter as much in my opinion if they are perfect.  But I needed shafts, couldnt afford to buy new Beeman MFX classics, had a bunch of the ICS hunters but again all 340 spine, so I said screw it.  I think the 340's would work for your compound and your recurve.  To be honest I think I was shooting just as good if not better before switchin to "the book".

[xtrema312]

What is the draw length on the trad bow?

Heavy inserts and or points on the trad bow should make it work out if you are not over spined on the compound.  If you want to set them up exactly the same it will probably be a little hard.

What carbon spine do you have and what length?