Weight forward guestion

[DAbersold]

#5059

I’m not new to traditional archery, but I’m a relative newbie to Ashby’s teachings. In the past, my setup was an aluminum arrow off the Easton chart with a 125 gr. broadhead. My guestion is; I have some carbon arrows that bare shaft too stiff with a 125gr head. I put in a 50gr brass insert, and a 145 gr head. That got them pretty close, but they still bare shaft a bit stiff. (groups with a bare shaft are to the right of my other fletched arrows, I’m left handed) So, do I just keep adding weight to the front, or is there a point where you just can’t and won’t get good flight? A bit more info, the shafts are an off brand I bought several years ago I so I can’t find them to even determine what spine they are. (Extream Impact 200) I was shooting a compound at 60lbs, so I’m guessing they are about that. Even with the brass insert and 145gr head, they are only 460gr., so they aren’t really heavy for my 47lb recurve, so I have room for more weight. So, what to do? Just keep adding weight to the front until I get good flight?

[David Petersen]

#36893

That’s what I’d do, and have done. There really is no down-side to adding more and more weight up front until you reach a point either where your shaft is underspined or the overall weight of the arrow is so heavy that you can’t shoot it accurately at hunting distances (out to 20 yards for most of us). Before Ashby clued us in, we thought a 145 was a heavy head. Manufacturers are now racing to come out with glue-on heads in the 250 range. Brass inserts are cheaper than broadheads and you can work with those if you want — pop up to 100 and see what happens. I think you can get brass inserts in 25-grain increments up to maybe 175. I’m shooting head/adapter combos in the 300 grain range with 100 brass inserts with light carbon shafts. Accuracy is superb, bow is solent, FoC is 26+%, but the total 680 grain arrow weight may be more than you want or need if you don’t plan hunting anything bigger than deer or pigs. We all owe it to ourselves to start stacking weight on the front to see how high we can go. Good luck, dave

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