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I too have recently built an arrow with 4 A&A style rocket fins. It weighs 1015 grains and 34.6% FOC. Shot from my 71@31 Black Widow into my full size bear target at 22 yards, I was very surprised how flat it flew.
Although I am not new to heavy arrows I am still amazed at how a UEFOC flying train can travel with such a desirable trajectory.
in reply to: Book on FOC and compounds? #40609Was that Jeremy Johnson from Oregon writing that book?
Bow type and Make Black Widow recurve
Bow Length 62″
Bow weight@ 28″ 62#
Your draw length 31.25 (71.5#s)
Arrow type Gold Tip Ultralight Entrada 300
Arrow length 31.5
Feathers number and length three 3″, rocket fins
Insert/adapter combo weight 200 gr.
Point weight. 300
Footing weight 50 gr.
Total arrow weight. 830 gr.
FOC 32%
in reply to: EFOC arrow setup #41208Rich, The Gold Tip Ultralight Entrada 300 is 8.5 gpi. I think that arrow may work to meet your objectives. You use the heavy broadheads, insert, etc. like you mentioned then use external footings to fine tune the arrow to your bow as well as fine tune the weight your looking for. You never know what the final answer will be due to sooo many choices to make in arrow components as well as the unique characteristics of your bow.
Doc Nock, didn’t you and I discuss external footings and UEFOC in great detail several years ago?
Richie Nell
in reply to: 300 Tuffhead testimony #26491Jans, what kind of footing set up are you using?
in reply to: Arrow Integrity #51556I personally really like the external footings. I think it does wonders to strengthen a carbon arrow setup. It is also very versatile. You can make them as long as you want to really aid in tuning a heavy fronted weighted arrow without having to go to a stiffer shaft….just add a longer footing.
I do not leave home without it.
in reply to: Single Bevel #59912I understand now. You need a longer tapered adapter or an adapter with longer “shoulders” between taper and threaded shank like I make for myself, Works great.
I think Vintage Archery has some long tapered adapters.
in reply to: Single Bevel #58969Steve,
I can’t understand how that is possible. The footings I make for the largest carbon arrows like the GT 7595 and GT Big Game 100 will fit 1/8 inch into the ferrule of the Tuffhead 300.
And of course that is larger than the footings I make for the 5575 Black or Traditional Gold Tips.
in reply to: Grizzly broadheads, redux #13432I can’t imagine a stronger better cutting tool on an arrow than a TuffHead….other than a larger TuffHead. One very key characteristic that makes the TuffHead the “cream of the broadhead crop” is that the construction is LAMINATED stainless steel, not solid. That is better than a solid piece like the ABS.
in reply to: broadheads #23051First of all, never are we talking about a perfect shot. Because you are correct, a field point will make a deer dead on said shot. The understood “given” here is when the shot is NOT perfect
But Bob, with Ace, is one person selling his broadhead WITHOUT any research close to the Ashby reports. Ashby isn’t selling anything. He has just tested many broadheads in an unbiased fashion. HAD he found that double bevels penetrated the most difficult resistance material in animals…all hunters that were already using the double bevel would then use the Ashby reports to back up their already personal preference.
Not having the knowledge to even have a preference beforehand, it made perfect sense to ME that the twisting of the single bevel did and does go through bone better than a double bevel, all else equal. I have since done it. Compared to the double bevel I once used…the single is better.
Instead of a broadhead maker just saying he doesn’t like single bevels. I would love to see ANY real testing like the Ashby reports from a broadhead maker. I have yet to see anything anywhere.
in reply to: broadheads #22508I think the one’s who don’t like to “fix things they think aren’t broken” are the same one’s who are not real crazy about “improving” what they don’t know can be improved. They also aren’t interested because that’s maybe why they’re in “traditional” bowhunting to begin with. To hunt the “unimproved” way. And nothing at all wrong with that.
I personally am all for improving my weapon while still being a very challanging ordeal and could not care less about the romance involved with the “trad” bow. Trad is all I have done and all I will do.
I think the TuffHead is a vast improvement from other heads. I could be wrong but it is very hard for me to imagine that the characteristics of the TuffHead 300 could be improved. For instance, I never would have thought that the sharp double bevel heads could get any better. They are sharp and will cut. But I was wrong. Then I thought nothing could be better than the single bevel Grizzly. Wrong again. Then I used the TuffHead. The wide single bevel on the TuffHead 300 is not only incredibly sharp, the bevel and edge is incredibly smooth. I think the smoothness and being a single bevel is much better than the ones mentioned. And that wide bevel will rotate no matter what…creating a bone splitting construction site. The double bevel head has each bevel working against each other eliminating the ability for it to move bone out of its way.
Although the price for TuffHeads is more than the run of the mill broadhead. That’s less than a tank of gas for one trip to the hunting camp.
It’s really not that much money considering your buying the best product of its kind on the market.
in reply to: MA and FOC in Sioux buffalo arrows #11291Just think how good the Sioux’s would have eaten had they cut a deal with Joe for a few Tuffheads. 😀
in reply to: Looking for a good broad head #12888They are glue-on. If it was screw-on and the threads or threaded shank gets bent then the entire broadhead is toast. The glue-on also is muuuuccchhh more versatile when changing weight up front, etc.
The wide bevels do twist through a target, lungs or bone and that’s a good thing. I personally use the old school stryofoam targets about 12″ wide. I never want to use a broahead target that is too dense to prevent the broadhead from exiting the back side. That way I know I’ll never loose the broadhead in the middle of the target.
in reply to: Looking for a good broad head #12280I would definitely suggest the TuffHead as well. It’s difficult to understand what a superb cutting tool it is until you hold it then put it through an animal.
I recently killed a good wild boar with a TuffHead 300. That broadhead went through 4 inches of shield armour and everything in between…. only to come out bloody and STILL shaving hair from my arm. Very impressive to me.
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