Random questions

[Mark Colangelo]

So I ended up winging it and taking an inch off...moving from 29 BOP to 28. Also ended up nock high so I raised the string nocking point up a touch. Absolutely flawless now with 55-60 spined douglas fir with a 145 grain field tips. I am unreal excited. My excitement literally rivals the feeling I get when actually havesting an animal with my compound. Going traditional is already one of the greatest choices I have ever made. I also tried straightening some POC shafts I had and made 3 arrows out of that. Interested to see how different the total arrow weight will end up compared to the 585 grain area I am in with my completed Surewoods. Does anyone find a huge difference in shooting a variety of woods even if they are supposedly the same static spine? Thank yall for the tips, I was very ready to call Surewood and ask them give me their best guess. Seeing those bare shafts group with my fletched arrows felt like the greatest accomplishment I have ever had in archery, and I have taken many deer with a compound. Gonna do a ton of stump shooting while I am conducting a study on fox squirrels for a school project. I already cannot wait to get after spring gobblers March 25th!

[Mark Colangelo]

[Orion]

Glad it worked for you.

As I noted in my earlier post, different physical weight arrows will behave a bit different dynamically even if they have the same static spine.

If you go to a considerably physically lighter cedar shaft, say 50 grains or more lighter, it will act dynamically stiffer and may impact a bit to the left vis-a-vis your heavier Doug firs.

Of course, unless you have a spine tester, you won't know for sure if your cedars and Doug firs are the same static spine, so will be difficult to pinpoint the cause of different arrow impact if you do experience it. Let us know what you find out.

[Mark Colangelo]

spine tester will be acquired someday, but not in the cards at the moment. So my 3 doug firs tuned and my 3 POCs tuned, now I am going to do a little experiment. The 3 doug firs came in between 578-582 total weight.....3 POC came in 525-529...gonna take both sets out to do some stumping and see if I can really tell the difference...I prefer the heaviness and out of the box straightness of the surewoods so all my purchases will be them from this point. What do you expect my results will be? Will it be a dramatic change in vertical point of impact because of the 50 grain difference? The rest of my cedars are going to have 40 grain screw on adapters put in and 125 grain bullheads to get closer to my 575 target weight for all my arrows...just having a little fun experimenting

[Orion]

You probably won't notice much difference in drop until you shoot beyond 20 yards.  Should be noticeable at 25-30 yards and beyond  though.

[Bill Turner]

If Bear is providing D-97 strings with their bows I would say there is no reason to change strings. Unless Black Widow has changed recently, that is the same string that you'll find on Black Widow bows when shipped.