Tuning Arrows "Country Boy Style"

[4est trekker]

If any of ya'll all are the "why buy it if you can make it" kind of guy like I am (i.e. too poor, tight, and/or proud just to buy it), then this might float your boat.  I had some old arrow shafts laying around that I wanted to make up for my fall hunting arrows (heaven forbid I should buy new shafts!)  Well, they were spined just a touch heavy and came in a little light in weight (about 60 grains light).  I could have just bought heavier points, but then I would have had to buy heavier points       So, I added a 1 1/4" piece of brass tubing just behind each broadhead, secured it with hot melt, cut the shine with steel wood, and VIOLA!  60 grain increase in total arrow weight and spine problem fixed.  They fly true and that annoying bit of handshock is gone.  Not the best way or place to increase total arrow weight, but its get the job done...country boy style!  

I've used brass tubing to make blunts and such in the past, and the only downside is that you create a rather long rigid section at the end of the arrow that can snap off if you shank or deflect  an arrow.  By hey, that gives me a reason to make more, which is the whole point in the first place!  

[Mike Mecredy]

Nice.  I have the same "problem" as you.  Always doing stuff like that, but mostly because there's no archery shop within resonable distance.  But the wheels are always spinning on how I can do it myself witht he resources I have on hand.  

That's a graeat idea, I don't have any brass tube but I have some empty .357 cases I could cut the end off.

[vtmtnman]

Nice brass footings.

[SCATTERSHOT]

Good on ya! I have footed arrows with aluminum shafting before, but never thought of the brass tubing. Sounds like you got 'er dialed in, now go stick something.

[wislnwings]

Good idea.  What kind of broadheads are those?

[4est trekker]

wislnwings: The broadheads are MA-2's (100 gr.)  that I picked up for a $1.00 a piece at a trad shoot.  Nice and cheap!