Broadhead - Vertical or horizontal?

[Jeff Strubberg]

The only difference is how they look to your eye at full draw.  Other than that, don't matter a hill o fbeans.

Pretty sure mine are all over the place.  

[lone hunter]

For glue-on,where ever they end up when spin balanced. Every arrow is slightly different.

[Tajue17]

doesn't matter but I personally like mine mounted at 10:30 because at the 10:30/4:30 position when I draw the bow and then cant the top of the bow to the side the broadhead disappears and I cannot see it .. it seems with field points or blunts I shoot perfectly fine but if I draw a broadhead back even if its just at a target I get a little shaky and I can only think its my brain warning me not to miss with this thinik on the front,, I do not gap shoot and I'm 100% instinctive but I don't want to see a big treeshark in my secondary visionm when I'm picking a spot.

most of my arrows are bareshaft tuned so anyt broadhead mounted any way they go on they all shoot fine.

[mmgrode]

I mount mine at a 45 degree angle for two reasons:
- Keeps the broadhead out of the sight picture
- I use the back of the broadhead touching my drawing hand as a draw check/clicker of sorts...consistent draw length.

[Bill Turner]

I like to do them all the same. I prefer horizontal just because that is the way I started doing them in "69". Whatever you do, make sure you shoot them after mounting, then sharpen to hunt only if they fly straight. Good luck and shoot straight.

[JamesKerr]

Originally posted by bornagainbowhunter:
How ever the end up when screwed on for carbons.  For wood, i just spin them hot to get them straight, and wherever I stop is where they stay.  Never had any problems.

God Bless,
Nathan

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[donw]

makes no difference...just make sure they're mounted perfectly.

[oldskool]

what Tajue17 said

[German Dog]

Originally posted by Bisch:
 

Originally posted by Gentry:
as long as your arrows are good and tuned to your bow it dont matter..... they will all shot the same.

Bingo....That being said, I like mine horizontal so the blade is not in my sight picture as much.

Bisch [/b]

See I like mine vertical so I don't notice mine in my sight picture.

[Red Beastmaster]

I've mounted mine horizontally for 20 years. This year I just screwed them in and had them in various positions. The flight was still the same but it just messed with my head! I couldn't stop looking at the broadhead instead of my target.

I switched them back to horizontal and all was right with the world again.  

[mongoose]

Either way for me, I just make sure that they are aligned with one of the feathers.      

[dragonheart]

Vertical, I use the back of the BH as a draw check on the pointer finger.

[Fletcher]

Horizontal works best for me.

[meathead]

Horizontal for me too.

[PICKNGRIN]

I like em horizontal.

[smokin joe]

Horizontal, so it is not in my line of sight.

[beyondmyken]

Horizontal  for war, vertical for hunting so the BH can slip between the ribs.   :D

[stykbender]

2 blades and horizontal as I don't like the sharp blade coming back to my bow hand which is RIGHT below it. Also the broadhead will move if I overdraw the bow in the excitement of "the Big 'UN". My arrows are cut to my exact draw length.
Like your logic tho beyondmyken!

[RkyMtn Joe]

I mount my broadheads horizontally---just got in the habit of doing them that way many years ago and have never found any reason to change.  I certainly know that the arrow spins in flight and it doesn't matter which way you do them so long as they are straight and without wobble when you spin them.

I remember reading somewhere that Ishi seemed not to understand that an arrow rotates in flight, so he insisted that the point should be mounted vertically inorder to slip between the ribs of a deer.

Joe

[DuffyRP]

Originally posted by beyondmyken:
Horizontal  for war, vertical for hunting so the BH can slip between the ribs.    :D  

How do keep them arrows from turning in flight.