Footing/ cladding, questions, questions, questions

[PaddyMac]

While I'm down with my riser being fitted to new limbs, I'm (thinking too much       and) configuring a dozen Gold Tip 5575s. I know the match to foot them (I prefer "clad," which is what we're doing here, cladding the point end) is 2216s but I can't find them. I have half the valley rummaging around in their basements and garages.

So I think I may have to buy some.
So of course I'm looking for the cheapest 1/2 doz. I can find.
So that is the XX75 Gamegetter and they're black and that's kinda cool because the whole nock end is white.

But they are sold by by spine weights instead of dimensions. My first question is ... is there another choice of aluminum arrow? Is there a site that has the inside diameters of these arrows?  (Yes, I know about the fine list that's on here, but it only lists 2216s for 5575s -- O.D. of .302" -- GT specs everything!)

I can always go to FS and buy a half-doz Legacies, but ow! That's enough footing/cladding for 17-1/2 years. And I may be wood next year anyway.      

Also, I will be making a lip 1-1/2 inches back as high as the wall thickness from the point end of the shaft and that lip is going to ride up on my shelf and I think make contact with and aggravate the edge of my leather rest. Is this going to be a problem? Should I worry about beveling that outside edge of the aluminum? I figure a few swipes with a coarse stone would be plenty.

I'm not worried about the new leading edge lip because 5/16 Saunders field points are slightly wider than my shafts anyway. And I'm assuming broadheads won't be an issue.

I really like this idea. It toughens the arrow, particularly at a likely break point inside the animal, not to mention on rocks, and brittleness is the weakness of carbon. And it increases FOC. And it looks pretty cool in an ugly lethal military kind of way compared to the pretty end.

BTW, I do have a dozen not too roughly treated 2117 Legacies (28 inches with vanes) if anyone wants to swap some 2216s. PM me.

So there. What's a feller to do?

     

Thunks!

[PaddyMac]

I just put a WTT in the classifieds.

[PaddyMac]

Nevermind...

A fellow just walked into my store and I traded two airport minis of Pendleton for two 2216 camo hunters.

   

[JimB]

Definitely bevel the back of the footing.They are murder to pull out of targets if you don't.Put the footing in a drill,spin it and bevel with a mill file.Remember,2117 for 5575 black and 2216 for 5575 wood grain.

[RM81]

x2 on the beveling.  You can also bevel them on a disk sander.

[Doc Nock]

Or a reloading champfer tool

[PaddyMac]

Wood grains. Check

Drill. Check.

And a champfer tool. Hmmm. Didn't think of that. Check.

Camera. Check.