2 blade mounting position

[Msturm]

I believe that this has been done in years past. I would like to take another poll to compare data.

How do you mount your 2 blade broadheads?

[J. Holden]

My vote went to the "other" category.  I'd like to mount them at a 45 degree angle.  However I found I was getting so hung up on them being mounted how I wanted them to be and not how the best fit the arrow.

What I mean is once I mounted them I'd spin my arrows and find that they were out of alignment.  Maybe this doesn't matter with screw in broadheads, mine are glued on wooden arrows.

I had to give up on the alignment I wanted and accept what worked best for the arrow and it's flight.

-Jeremy  

[Tedd]

I chose other.
45 degrees.

[Sam McMichael]

I chose "other". I just glue it on and position it in the manner that best aligns the head. I have never seen that a specific alignment position was superior to another.

[kevsuperg]

Yep, other here too. I just get them to seat correctly and spin perfectly.
 I don't use the arrow as an aid to aiming at least not consciously, so the position is not important to me.
 I would be curious to know why so many are choosing horizontal.

[trad_bowhunter1965]

I set my Zwickey Delta at 1 and 7 and have even set them at 2 and 8.

[Msturm]

Thanks everyone!  Keep em coming.   I also wonder about people's reasoning for mounting horizontal. Is it to keep the sight window clear?

Thanks.

Msturm

[Pine]

The reason for horizontal is , while the arrow is in paradox , it's less likely to steer it off line .
By the time the blade reaches vertical , the paradox is very low .

[Red Beastmaster]

Been mounting them horizontal for nearly thirty years.

Anything else is just weird.

[nek4me]

I didn't vote since I just got back into trad a year or so ago and wasn't ready last fall. I shot a few of the old Razorheads I plan to use but didn't use any particular alignment. Hoping more of the respondents give their reasoning and insight for their set ups.

I mount them at a slight angle so that they are horizontal when I draw back with the bow canted. I believe that if your setup is well tuned, it does not make any difference which way you mount them. I like them horizontal because they do not stick up in my line of sight that way.

Bisch

[matt61]

I mount mine horizontal because I gap shoot when target shooting and hunting and I shoot very fast. And I found that in the heat of the moment of shooting at an animal with a vertical mounted broadhead that I would pick the back of the blade and gap the shot wrong and shoot low and miss. An easy test of that is to hold your bow hand out full  stretch, palm toward the floor and you will automatically use your middle finger to sight with. With your palm vertical you will automatically pick the tip of your thumb.
So horizontal for me every time.
Matt

[Sam McMichael]

Graps, I have a question. If the head, in a vertical position, will steer the arrow off-line left or right, won't a horizontal mounting steer it up or down? However, if setting it in whatever position is straightest, it seems the head will not steer it in any direction, which ever position that may be. Am I missing something?

[snag]

I'm with you on this Bosch.

[kevsuperg]

I think the head steer thing is a myth.
 Hard to believe a 1" wide head will steer 500+ grains of arrow over say 20yds at the speeds we shoot at.
 As long as it is properly tuned.

[ron w]

What Bisch said..........

[dbd870]

I don't care - don't believe it makes any practical difference; make sure your arrow is tuned properly and press on.

[FlintNSteel]

Originally posted by Msturm:
Thanks everyone!  Keep em coming.   I also wonder about people's reasoning for mounting horizontal. Is it to keep the sight window clear?

That's my reason, I don't like a blade sticking up obstructing my view of the tip.

I have played around with mounting in various positions and I have not experiencing the "steering" issue others talk about if mounted vertically.  The arrow starts spinning as soon as it comes off the string, so the head is turning before it clears the shelf.

[DanielB89]

I just let them fall where they may.  I have never noticed any difference with any orientation.  


How would broadhead alignment matter when the arrow is spinning?

Originally posted by DanielB89:
How would broadhead alignment matter when the arrow is spinning?

It matters to me for what I see. The arrow is not spinning while I am aiming! If the broadhead is horizontal, I see it, but it is basically in the same place that the field points I shoot every day are. If it is vertical, it sticks way farther up into my line of sight, and I don't like that. Once I let go, it does not make any difference at all.

Bisch