Centering glue on broadheads

[jpcarlson]

#7252

I’m glueing my 300gr tuffheads on to 125gr steel adaptors with ferreltite. I’m wondering about the how to? How much glue? Get it on,spin it on a flat bench and look for the wobble, then reheat and bend towards the wobble side?

Any help appreciated!

Jans

[gigglemonk]

#59851

I think with the Tuffheads you may get a wobble regardless of how centered due to the tanto tip. Not sure though. I put m 225s on and have the slightest wobble. They fly true enough for me.

[David Coulter]

#63125

So far I’ve only mounted one. It has a bit of a wobble so I heated it a little and gave it a quarter turn and it straightened right out. I’m not going to worry too much about having the heads oriented the same on all the arrows. I’m just going to try to get them all as straight as I can. dwc

[Stephen Graf]

#8180

Yep. attach to the shaft or adapter with hot glue. At that point I just put the tip on the table and spin vertically. If it doesn’t spin true, slightly heat and rotate the head a bit. Don’t try to bend one way or the other. Just spin it a bit…

No worries, it’s not too hard.

[horserod]

#9855

OK Guys, I understand that the position of the broadhead on the shaft is important, especially if it is a 2 blade. The blades need to be in a vertical plane to your bow handle. Up and down as you look down the arrow. Not side to side (or flat). I was told to do this for 2 reasons. 1. So you can feel the back edge touching your bow grip fingers and not over draw 2. The angle of the broadhead blade (at the bow) will match how it strikes the target as it hits. Now, I was told this a long time ago and have stayed with this form of mounting and shooting my hunting arrows. In my few tests on targets I have found it to be true. YMMV, and I may have been told wrong? But, thru the years it has worked for me and it does make it harder to mount my broadheads as I don’t settle for any wobble. What’s your thoughts??? Bullseye

[William Warren]

#10034

Bullseye,

Not to hi-jack the thread – but I posted a thread awhile back on broadhead orientation on the shaft as I also believed it was better to align them vertically on each shaft. While I am somewhat bothered by things not looking neat and aligned when it comes to my tackle, the overwhelming response from around the campfire was that it does not matter. So I tried it on my carbon arrows and they were right, it had no effect on arrow flight if each head was oriented differently. So, releived that I no longer have painstakingly align my broadheads I can spend my time doing something else. 🙂

[David Coulter]

#10551

With my limited experience, I have to agree with Duncan. I think it’s much more important to make sure the broadheads are centered, keeping the tip as closely aligned with the shaft as possible. It’s the same thing with bullet design. One of the main factors in target bullet design is how to keep the weight of the bullet consistent to the center of the bullet. Same reason round ball shooters put the sprue either exactly on top or exactly on the bottom, aligned with the bore in the barrel. Keep your wobbles to a minimum and your projectile will fly straighter. dwc

[skifrk]

#10722

bullseye, I remember that the reason Fred Bear liked having his broadheads in that fashion was to cure a target panic problem in that he would draw and shoot as soon as the head touched his finger. Sort of like a clicker. I tried shooting the VPA broadheads I had both ways this year where the head was either horizontal or vertical I found no difference in position.

[Roger Norris]

#51134

bullseye wrote: OK Guys, I understand that the position of the broadhead on the shaft is important, especially if it is a 2 blade. The blades need to be in a vertical plane to your bow handle. Up and down as you look down the arrow. Not side to side (or flat). I was told to do this for 2 reasons. 1. So you can feel the back edge touching your bow grip fingers and not over draw 2. The angle of the broadhead blade (at the bow) will match how it strikes the target as it hits. Now, I was told this a long time ago and have stayed with this form of mounting and shooting my hunting arrows. In my few tests on targets I have found it to be true. YMMV, and I may have been told wrong? But, thru the years it has worked for me and it does make it harder to mount my broadheads as I don’t settle for any wobble. What’s your thoughts??? Bullseye

It makes absolutely no difference how your broadheads are aligned, as long as they are straight.

I just mounted some steel inserts into Tuffheads last night. I use hot melt, and was able to get perfect spin without much trouble. Perfect spin, no wobble, is key.

[David Petersen]

#53179

Jans — I have a couple dozen Tuffheads, both 225 and 300, mounted on arrows, both glue-ons with woodies and screw-ins with glue-on adapters, and have never had a single problem with wobble. So it’s not the heads themselves. My woods are 23/64, though I can’t see how it could matter with 11/32 as the taper is the same.

On broadhead orientation, of course it doesn’t matter to accuracy. But for me it does matter for aiming as I have a problem with being aware of the broadhead in my peripheral vision, which I don’t want. So I mount my heads horizontally where they are least visible at full draw. This is easy to do with screw ins by not gluing in the shaft insert until you have your shafts fletched; that way you can screw a head all the way into the insert then position the insert to line the head up where you want it, and finally glue the insert in. With woodies, of course perfect alignment trumps uniform orientation.

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#58810

Roger Norris wrote: [quote=bullseye]OK Guys, I understand that the position of the broadhead on the shaft is important, especially if it is a 2 blade. The blades need to be in a vertical plane to your bow handle. Up and down as you look down the arrow. Not side to side (or flat). I was told to do this for 2 reasons. 1. So you can feel the back edge touching your bow grip fingers and not over draw 2. The angle of the broadhead blade (at the bow) will match how it strikes the target as it hits. Now, I was told this a long time ago and have stayed with this form of mounting and shooting my hunting arrows. In my few tests on targets I have found it to be true. YMMV, and I may have been told wrong? But, thru the years it has worked for me and it does make it harder to mount my broadheads as I don’t settle for any wobble. What’s your thoughts??? Bullseye

It makes absolutely no difference how your broadheads are aligned, as long as they are straight.

I just mounted some steel inserts into Tuffheads last night. I use hot melt, and was able to get perfect spin without much trouble. Perfect spin, no wobble, is key.

No it doesn’t make a difference. I mount mine at a 10 o’clock 4 o’clock angle. Just because I like them flat when I cant my bow ( LH)

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