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Having never shot traditional archery equipment and regarding the well tuned bow and arrow setup brings me to this question.
How does one tune the arrow whether by paper tuning and bareshaft tuning when i will be learning the instinctive process itself? Don’t want to get over my head here, which i think i may be doing. The learning process should be fun but not defeating, so help me out here, guys and gals. Wanting to shoot one finger above, three fingers below with a glove finger release. Reading Ashby’s library—gonna go with heavy arrows for sure. Want 630 grain or more total arrow weight. Primarily hunting whitetales but may encounter black bear or hog. More concerned about the penetration on the hog than anything. So my desire is to go from compound to centershot longbow shooting instinctive with well tuned heavy arrow/broadhead setup. probaly shoot draw weight 50-60# Say for conservative example 50# @28″ draw length. Broadheads from 160 grain on up. Bottom line—learning to shoot instinctive and essential tuning at the same time. sorry for such a long post, but much thanks!
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KC — Again, TJ Conrads’ book THE TRADITIONAL BOWHUNTER’S HANDBOOK will answer all such entry-level questions for you, archery and bowhunting, and speed your learning curve nicely. Sure wish I’d had it when I started.
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Thanks David, i have gleaned much in the last 2-3 weeks from the forums and many valuable insights from others. Yeah, been eye-balling that book. Learned the other day about the rift and positioning of the wood grain in wood arrows just in case an arrow breaks apart when released and many many goodies from the Ashby library. Looks like you may some good reading material out there yourself…much to ponder.
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“Having never shot traditional archery equipment and regarding the well tuned bow and arrow setup brings me to this question.”
If you are just getting into trad archery, do not get too wrapped up with the details yet. We often get the cart before the horse. Get arrows that are “in the ball park” for spine and weight and then learn to shoot them. Keep at it until you can shoot acceptable groups (acceptable to you)and DO NOT WORRY about hitting a specific target just go for good groups. Once you have the groups, then and only then is the time to start trying to fine tune your equipment.
When you are starting out, trying to get an EFOC or heavy weight arrow will drive you crazy because you can not determine if the place the arrow is hitting is caused by a form element or an equipment element. Get those groups first with whatever reasonably spined and balanced arrows you have then you will have a foundation to experiment with the “other” stuff. FWIW.
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Thought i might use some POC shafts with 160 gr broadheads and field points (whitetails and target practice) Eventually heavier shafts such as hickory or ash for tougher game (bear and especially hogs) so should i just experiment with a little of everything or go straight to the heavyweight stuff. So i guess i am asking an experienced archer, assuming you can shoot different arrow weights/broadheads as long as the arrow is reasonably spined. Example being cedar, douglas fir, hickory, carbon or aluminum? A quiver full of assorted shafts.
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My opinion (and that is all it is) is that you should have one set of arrows that are spined and weighted the same for starting out. Once you are shooting groups with this first consistent set of arrow then try “branching out” to other options. If you try for a cross section of various spines, weights, and balances you will not get groups and will only confuse the issue. I don’t many of us ( if any) can take a quiver full of assorted shafts and shoot them all well and to the same place.
I recommend you only work with ONE thing at a time!
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AND… check out Moebow’s excellent videos! dwc
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