So I have been building my own wood arrows for almost five years now and I am getting a weird read with a new bow. Bow is 52 pounds at my draw of 26 inches. I have a similarly weighted camo bow that is 56 pounds at 28 inches. When I got the new bow, I shot the arrows that had been tuned to camo bow which flew perfectly. They were 55/60 spruce arrows with 125 grain head. The new bow was a sinch to setup and I found a great nock height and brace height that seemed perfect. It should be noted both bows are cut to center. The new bow is visibly faster than the camo bow so when I ordered new shafts I ordered 60/65 spruce shafts.
To my surprise they flew extremely stiff. Bare shaft was landing far to left (I'm right handed, well actually ambidextrous but these are both right handed bows). So I increased to 160 up front. Still reading stiff with full length shafts. So I increased to 190 and still it flew stiff.
For giggles I strung up camo bow and shot new arrows and they were weak landing far to right of fletched shafts, which is what I expected them to do. Since the new bow shot the camo bows arrows so well i started tuning to camo bow again and got the arrows flying well by shortening them some. Now the fletched shafts are flying really good out of the new bow. And the bare shaft is still showing stiff but less than before. The camo bow has a pretty thick leather rest off the shelf and the new bow was using a similarly thick calf hair rest. So I thinned the rest by changing the new bow to some super pad, which is about as thin as it gets. Still stiff from bare shaft. Nocking point for new bow is 1/2 inch and brace is 71/4 (both are hybrid longbows).
Heres the kicker. So I was determined to get a weak reading on the new bow so I grabbed a 40/45 pound bareshaft with 160 up front which should be so weak it's not funny. Nope it too flies stiff. What in the world could be causing this. The new bow shoots superb but I do not want to have to tune with another bow to get these arrows adjusted. I was going to buy some 55/60 shafts for it but am not going to spend any money on new shafts when I cant even get super weak shafts that fly perfect out of my 42 pound at 28 inch recurve to fly weak of a 52 lb hydrid longbow.
With a nock that high I wouldn't expect I'm hitting the shelf in any way that is out of the ordinary. Perhaps changing to an elevated rest? Turkey feather or something? I honestly havent a clue. Is it possible that the arrows are so weak I'm getting a false stiff reading? Never been unable to get a good read before and never seen anything like this. Help is appreciated. The only big difference between the new bow and camo bow is that the camo bow is 66 inches long and the new bow is 52 inches long. If any other details are needed let me know.
Topic: Weird tuning. (Read 1062 times)
