Hidden inserts ???

[acollins]

I purchased a dozen Easton Axis Traditional shafts today.  I have been watching a few videos on installing the HIT inserts. From what I can tell one there in, there in to stay. So how do I go about tuning the arrow and cutting it down. Is my only option to bare shaft and cut the nock end?

Thanks

[acollins]

Originally posted by acollins:
I purchased a dozen Easton Axis Traditional shafts today.  I have been watching a few videos on installing the HIT inserts. From what I can tell once there in, there in to stay. So how do I go about tuning the arrow and cutting it down. Is my only option to bare shaft and cut the nock end?

Thanks

[Arctic Hunter]

That's what Ive shot for the last couple of years. You can trim the nock end if you want. Don't use the epoxy easton sends with the shafts. Use the blue (low heat) stick of fer-l-tite (or whatever it's called). To remove it, screw a field point in, and heat the tip with a lighter. Then just pull the tip and insert out with a pair of pliers. Or I've heard boiling water works too, though I haven't tried that method.

It melts easily when you want to remove them, and a dip in cold water will solidify it and keep them from going anywhere.

[Pheonixarcher]

I also use the blue hot melt, cool flex. It has worked well for me. I have also trimmed the nock end for fine tuning. If you take to much off that end, the nock gets very tight and is hard to take in or out or turn.

[MnFn]

Hot melt works well, as above.  Gently heat the field tip and the heat will transfer to glue allowing you to pull the whole thing out.

Use Quick Stick hot melt glue from Big jims Bow Co, and you can take the inserts out any time you wish. The bonus is, this stuff is the best insert glue on the planet, and you don't have to use anything different once you are done tuning.

Bisch

[JRY309]

I tune my Axis with HIT inserts the same way I tune my regular carbon.I'll push in the insert with the point with some saran wrap.It hold the insert in snug enough for shooting and tuning.Just use a softer target like a bag target that doesn't grab too tight when pulling out the arrow.I like to use arrow wraps and have them on when tuning so cutting from the nock end doesn't work for me.Been doing this for years,quick and easy.For me I just don't like to use any heat on my carbons even the low temp hot melt.

[Pointer]

I shot those shafts for a while...good shafts. What Bisch said is right on the money.