Field tip & BH wts. Is this normal?

[Butts2]

Purchased some heavier Stos BHs (because I like them)and due to all the Ashby studies I have been reading I increased my field tips also. There was no stamped number for grains on the BH I could not tell them apart. Took them to work yesterday and weighed them. 145 BH weighed 141.  160 BH weighed 153
Brought my field tips in today 145 weighed 143 160 weighed 161.7. Normal?  

[Chris Surtees]

I would say that those weights are alright. I have had FP's and BH's weight +/- a couple grains before.

[herb haines]

Yup , quality control of North American broadheads suck . in same pack you can have up to 20 gr difference from one to another .
i had a customer a few years ago who was testing broadheads as he was going for Cape Buff and  wanted to us the beat broadhead he could find .
bought 39 silver Flames to test with all the rest , sent me a spread sheet of what he discovered and i was amazed at how many top named heads he had Crap written after , not sharp , fell apart , weights way off , bent on impact .Silver Flames were with in 1 gr of what they said  , he got his Buff ---- herb

[Orion]

I've found that most broadheds vary by 5-10 grains, usually on the light side of their stated weight, but not always.  Can bring them all to the same weight through the sharpening process.  Field points, too, vary, but not usually as much.

[Ryan Rothhaar]

Your best bet is to put away the grain scale and just shoot them.  If you can shoot the difference between a 5-10 grain variation in a dozen broadheads you should try out for the Olympic team!

Seriously, the manufacturers have to make a bunch of heads in a year to stay in business, and there are lots of hands-on (in other words expensive) processes involved.  If they want to keep the prices reasonable there will be some variation.  If you want perfect heads you have to pay the price (like the $15-25 or up EACH that some outfits charge).  I wouldn't say that domestic heads "suck"....that is like saying a Ford or Chevy "sucks" when you compare it to a Ferrari.  The Ford or Chevy performs more than adequately for 99.99% of the users....as do "normal" broadheads.

Ryan

[George D. Stout]

Saxton Pope and Art Young had to mark their arrows as to where they hit.  Spine was unheard of, as was broadhead matching.  I don't think you have much of a problem.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Just hunt with them.... they will be fine, little off but still close to be the same.

[portugeejn]

I was a little overcome by my years as a handloader when I first started making arrows and thought everything needed to be weight matched pretty close to exact.  

I purchased 2 packages of Zwickey Eskimo 125 grain broadheads (twelve in all).  Weighed them, as I was under the impression it would make a big difference (in my real life experience it doesn't).  The heaviest was 135 grains, the lightest was 128 grains, and they all fly just fine.  I can't tell any difference.  And as soon as they get sharpened a few times, they aren't the same any more anyway.  Now I still check, but don't get too concerned.
 
Ron