I've been working a bit every day to get my selfmade Hun bow able to shoot correctly. I'm making real discernable progress, but I needed to ask you guys what happened to me tonight.
I took one of my actual made-up arrows (instead of my cane beaters that I use to determine if it will even pull) and made a decent blunt on the end with a .32 blackpowder casing, some lead sheet and another brass collar. I have no actual points of any kind, I make up what I need so far. It cured the issue of the arrow burying the fletching in the ground (I know how it works in physics, but it was the most interesting ting I had ever seen.)
My arrows were corkscrewing at the fletching end, while the head end was (mostly) steady. Accuracy was reminiscent of a certain can where we place things our bodies have completed their business with. I recognize I am doing something wrong, and losing a LOT of energy to that, but what have I done wrong?
Arrows are 36" long birch, self nocks and modern two-fletch. Fletching left mostly untrimmed so I can have enough energy to chase the arrow down in this heat. If needed I can try to get a pic or two of the setup.