AD Hammerhead lite user?

[huntin_sparty]

Folks there are a few posts on these arrows I saw on the search.  Also since they are not on Stus Calculator was curious.  What is your set up and how did they fly for you?

I have shot them a lot this long weekend with a 2011 (so cut past center) Bear Kodiak Magnum 51 lb at my draw 28.25 shooting split finger.  The arrow is 28.5 BOP, standard insert, arrow wrap, 4 4 inch fletch, used 145 and 175 grain points.  They showed weak bare shafting less w lighter point but still weak?  Which I thought weird with this bow.  Shot great with flecthed right where I was looking!

Saw an interesting post from Big Jim that these dont bare shaft tune well due to the taper and BH tuning works better.

Let me know your thoughts and experience.
Thanks,
Andrew

[Flingblade]

My experience as well.  They don't bare shaft tune well for me but fly better fletched than any other carbon.

[Ben Maher]

Bizarrely , I received mine from Ted Fry a couple of weeks ago and found them to be a very strange shaft ...

From a variety of bows with different shelf depths and differeing poundages , also changing point weights I seemed to pretty much be hitting what I was looking at ... including from my usually spine sensitive Hill bows .

I'm a wood arrow fella ... til now !

AD Trad Lies !!!!!! Heck yes !

[huntin_sparty]

Ted is where I bought mine too.  A great resource, but he is out guiding I believe.  So these bare shafted weird for you all as well?

[Bel007]

I use them and the regular AD Trads.  Adjusting point weight and keeping my length the same I can shoot well with one of the arrows in any bow I own.  Many who want to use a particular head cut the arrow down 1/4 inch at a time to dial it in to a particular bow.  

I have never bare shafted.  I have never needed to.

[Burnsie]

I bought mine from Ted a year or two ago, when I talked to him on the phone he couldn't say enough about how well the ADs performed out of just about any bow he shot them out of.  He said from self bows to high end recurves, most of the time all he did was slap fletching on full length shafts and shoot them.

[amar911]

What everyone says is correct. The AD shafts are very spine tolerant. However, even the manufacturer specifically discourages bareshaft tuning for the reasons stated above. I have come to shoot the various AD shafts in almost every bow I own. I will say that in very light bows shot by people with very short draw lengths, such as my wife, the AD's are far too heavy and stiff to fly properly. On everything I shoot from 45 to 70 pounds with a 29.5" draw and 31" arrows, the Trad Lites (or Hammerhead Lites) work well at the lower end and the Trad "Heavies" (or Hammerhead "Heavies") work well above 60 pounds, although I can even shoot Trad Lites out of a 70# bow with reasonably good flight.

Allan

[bartcanoe]

Allan,

What point weight are using in the heavies for 60-70 lb?

[amar911]

I have 100 grain brass inserts and can shoot 150 to 300 grain points/broadheads with good flight. Like I said, these shafts are very spine tolerant.

Allan