Make SURE to practice with your broadheads!

[shag08]

I know it's been said a thousand times over but make sure to shoot with your broadheads!

Don't be like me lol. I've shot my Black Widow longbow all summer long and I've been extremely impressed with my shooting capabilities with it. It's awesome to put three arrows with a field point in a Coors can at 35 yards. But that don't mean diddly now that I screwed on my broadheads.

This bow absolutely will NOT shoot the broadheads I planned to use this fall....same weight as the field points that bare shaft perfect. I thought I was good to go til I tried em out on Friday...that was a disappointment!

It's two weeks til season now and I don't have the time to get different arrows and heads for the Widow and get them dialed in. Thankfully, I have quite a few bows and I found one that loves this arrow and head combo....looks like an early Bob Lee era Red Wing Hunter will be going to the woods with me this year.

So just a reminder...we ain't in this to punch paper....field points aren't used to take game....be sure to shoot with your hunting heads and retune as necessary.

[OBXarcher]

Very good point.

I mark each arrow, shoot broadheads and make sure they are good. Most take some kind of tweeking to get right. A little nock twist here and there typcally does it. Then I mark the nock and arrow to make sure everything stays put.

[ron w]

Shot mine last week and a few times today, just a few tweaks and I'm good to go from 3 different bows.

[Jake Scott]

Great point!!  Thank goodness my interceptors fly dead on the same as my field tips.  Great reminder.

Jake

[monterey]

That was one of my first hard lessons learned years ago.  Did not shoot the broadheads at all until I had a shot at a fat doe quartering away.  Arrow left the bow right on target and then veered wildly to the right, then straightened out and went nicely and harmlessly around her!!  The deer was clueless and did not move.  No second shot attempted, what would be the point??

[halfseminole]

Makes me remember I need to be out practicing with mine.  Getting close to opening day.

[Cavscout9753]

Certainly a "moment of truth" time for me every time. I usually end up having to heat and turn a broadhead or two but in the end it feels good knowing those arrows have shot true for me. Even my small game head gets a turn at it. I think some people dont want to dull or ding up their heads so they avoid it. Part of the reason I shoot eskimos. Bomb proof and a quick work over with a file or strop and its back in business. Happy shooting all!

[Blueridge]

Did that today. Stingers flew like darts out of my PSA . Going to shoot cedars out of my PLX this year with ACE heads, they flew great . Can't wait to see how they do.

[dbd870]

Thanks for the thread. Did it with my Grizzly and no problems. Set a few stands this weekend and tried shooting out of my climber with it and my KMag. That KMag really shines from a stand; but I just realized reading this I have not shot a broadhead with it - TNX!

[M60gunner]

First time I tried broadheads from carbons I got a lesson. I used a non-reversible epoxy glue for the inserts. OK until I needed to line up the blades in the manner I like. Ended up using metal arrows left from year before.

[damascusdave]

I was just telling someone today that the 175 grain VPA two blade shoots like a field point for me...just gotta buy smart when selecting a broadhead...too many people get caught up in saving a few pennies and forget that the frustration of a head that will not tune is not worth it

DDave

[Rob W.]

Bad broadhead flight is almost never the fault of the head. Just a tuning or form issue amplified.

[Pete McMiller]

I agree with Rob.  

I shoot broadheads in a league starting the first week of July so I know for sure if they are shooting correctly.  This year all of a sudden they were all over the place.  Turns out my nocking point had moved an 1/8" up.  Once corrected they were lasers again.  Never noticed the problem with field points but it sure was magnified with broadheads.

[DarrinG]

Good thread!
I've been shooting my Snuffer 125's for a couple weeks now and they are flying just the same as my field points. I also think it's very important to practice with the heads you're gonna be hunting with.

[Friend]

BH Tuning is a far more important element.
BH tuning is the bottom line.

Note: have not experienced any surprises after bareshafting out to 40 yards.

[DanielB89]

This is one of the best years I have ever had as far as arrow tuning goes.  

   

Here is a picture of me shooting a simmons interceptor 150 grain on a fletched arrow and a bare shaft field tip arrow point at 33 yards.  I am pretty pleased.

[Trumpkin the Dwarf]

I will note that a shifting knocking point seems to drastically impact broadhead flight. Far more so than a slight spine issue.