2 blade broad head orientation ?

[skychief]

For the users of 2 blade broad heads, do you orient them in a particular way, thinking ( or knowing ), that you get better flight ?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Skychief.

[dlnwohio]

Mine are at 8 o'clock and 2 o'clock so when I can't my bow it puts them at 9 and 3 o'clock.

[joe ashton]

I have all mine vertical.  No reason.. and they are all the same.  I don't want to be looking down the shaft at an elk and have a bh that is aligned differently, giving my mind an excuse to 'wonder'

[black velvet]

Vertical, but that's just my preference.

If you are tuned well it does not make a hill of beans. I like mine horizontal to keep the BH out of my sight picture. I cant my bow so the BH's are actually aligned at about 1 and 7 o'clock so that when I draw they are level horizontal 3 and 9 o'clock)

Bisch

[Irish]

I'm with Bisch.   Horizontal, out of my sight picture.  I don't like to have a blade sticking upright on the end of an arrow, just my personal feelings.

[joe skipp]

Horizontal....

[buckeyebowhunter]

I've always went with vertical. I had a video of Paul Brunner mounting two blade heads onto an arrow and he said to always mount them vertical, I just always followed this advice and it seemed to work fine.

[White Falcon]

Vertical.

[tex-archer]

Horizontal for me.

[Zradix]

ok man.. theoretically... I figured I should mount them horizontally because an arrow bends more right and left coming around the riser than up and down....thought maybe the head wouldn't have as much chance to steer the arrow before it straightened out and started spinning.

.... after trying both ways ( - & I ) I couldn't find any difference..but I'm not a great shot anyway.

Ended up I liked them like this ( - ) ..just liked the sight picture better...no other reason.... actually just a tad turned so when I shoot with my normal cant..the blade is straight across.

[snag]

Horizontal for me too. If you think about how the arrow goes through paradox it is flexing back and forth horizontally. I'd rather the broadhead "cut" through the air than have that wide area act as a "sail" or interfere with the arrow's aerodynamics. Just a small thing. But it is the way I do it. Plus there isn't anything in my sight picture sticking up off the shaft.

[billy shipp]

It makes no difference at all to me. I mount them on the shaft then rotate the head until the shaft spins true.

[LookMomNoSights]

What ever makes you happy really!  If how the broadhead appears in your sight picture while aiming matters to you,  then accommodate for that.  If it does not,  then you have every option....so long as they spin test true!  Myself,   I lean toward horizontal as much as possible....my arrows dont hang off the shelf but 1.5 inches and I just like knowing the cutting edge is not perpendicular to my bow gripping index finger...that just puts me a little more at ease is all.  Also,  I can see the tip of the head a little more....gives me a better peripheral in regards to what is going on.  If I mount the head and its spins truest a little left or right of dead horizontal,  thats where it gets epoxied to the insert.  Broadheads or fieldpoints in flight and point of impact...no difference for me!  Ive been shooting mostly Ace standards.  Some Simmons as well!

[PEARL DRUMS]

With wood shafts there is only one way to haft a head on, vertical. That's proof enough that orientation means nothing. Folks where hafting heads on wayyyyy before ferrules and glue came around.

[Dave Lay]

vertical   i dont like seeing the head in my sight picture and to me a horzional 2 blade is distracting...

[joe skipp]

Because I aim with split vision, I like my heads flat, want no interference with anything in my sight picture...

[smokin joe]

What Joe Skipp said.....

[two4hooking]

Vertical....in John Schulz book he said if you mount them horizontal a person could get excited and draw the BH into the back of the bow and cause the arrow to fall off the string in the heat of the moment. He said this has happened more than once. If they are vertical you will feel the BH  against your finger before this happens.

[dink]

Vertical for i shoot with a open grip with my pointer finger sticking out.feel safer not thinking im going to cut my finger off.