How long do you like your arrows

[Bowwild]

1-1.5" longer than my 26" draw.

[tracker12]

Point on shooter.  I like them long.

[Hermon]

I like them as long as they hit where I am aiming.  When they decide to stop going where they are supposed to, I don't like them so much.

To answer the question, no more than an inch longer than my draw.

[PeteA]

I shoot 29.5 inch aluminum, my draw is 27. I like to shoot a heavier 2016 from a 46 pound bow and I'm a gap shooter so the extra length works to both weaken the spine and keeps my gaps narrower.

[mike g]

I guess I'm the odd ball my draw is 29" and my BOP is the same....

[COMPOUNDLESS IN CONCRETE]

Originally posted by jonsimoneau:
I've found that I'm more accurate if I leave them as long as possible. Some really good archers I know leave them full length and do everything they can to get their "Point on" around 25 yards or less if possible.

Well I'm certainly not a really good archer but what you described is why I leave them long.    

[pinky]

I shot with another traditional shooter at a 3D shoot a couple of years ago.  He was telling me how he had only found a couple of types of arrows that he could shoot because he needed so much length. The variety of shaft he had found had an outsert to add the extra inch to full length shafts.  I can remember watching him shoot, coming to Full Draw ? with 5 to 6 inches of arrow projecting past the end of his riser.      Maybe there was a method to the madness after all.

I think the old easton arrow charts recommended the extra inch and that is what I have gone with.

I draw 29.5" with my recurves and 29ish with a longbow, my arrows are 30.5" to back of point.

[Bill Turner]

I match up well with Terry Green. 29" bop with a 27.5 to 28" draw.    

[Ironman]

I shoot arrows 1" BOP longer than my 28" draw weight.Just my preference.

[Bud B.]

I like my arrows as long as I don't lose them or break them.  

Seriously, I prefer arrows in the 28-29" range for wood. Carbon I like 30". I draw 27ish, depending on bow style.

[EWill]

Like others on here I like them as long as they shoot well. Other than that I like mine at about 27.5- 28". I don't want any more arrow over hang than is necessary. Broadheads are a different matter, don't want to cut myself, they are generally about .5" longer.

[Babbling Bob]

Shoot 28.5 for a 26-inch draw.

Lot different than many years ago when we shot skinny aluminum target arrows with nibs. They were cut much shorter so the tip was at most an inch past the rest so the tips could be seen for those long targets. Now, everybody just shoots short targets so the long arrows work fine.

[old_goat2]

I love them until they break up with me!

[pinky]

[Mint]

I always got grief from my friends for cutting my arrows at 28" with my 26" draw. For some reason it bothered them but I realized with the longer arrow the spine wasn't as critical as when the arrow was cut to 26".

[Brock]

Usually I go with 31 inch shafts for my setups...no matter if recurve with 29.5 draw or longbow/selfbow with 28 inch draw.  I like the consistent size...

[Frank V]

Miles, I'm wih you, I draw 29" with a recurve & like my arrows 30-30-1/2"! I don't like my broadheads too near my tender easy to cut hands!   :confused:

[reddogge]

30.5" with 27.5" draw, carbons. I use the arrow for gapping. Doesn't make me a bad person.  

[sticks&stringz]

i use at least an inch past the front of the riser to the back of the point.

[Terry Green]

I've been shooting a bow since I was 8 years old and now I'm 51 I don't understand this finger cutting stuff I've never cut my finger with a broad head while shooting a bow can someone please explain how this happens because over 40 years of shooting a bow it's never happened to me