mystryak

I notice a big difference in my 100 GR Hellrazors when the blade isnt inline with the fletchings i was wondering if i can heat up the tips of the arrows and turn the i dont even know what you call it with a lighter or something in order to line up the blades and the fletchings.

MichaelHunsucker

Yeah, definately do that. I always make sure that mine line up so they fly good!

Rob/PA Bowyer

I never line up my blades with my vanes, it makes no difference what so ever.

How would you line up 3 blades on 4 vanes or 2 blades on 3 blades?

Needing to line them up is one of those myths.

Germ

What he said

Sign up for Eastons Archery University class you will learn a ton. It does not matter, if those are carbon arrows I would not heat them up.

MichaelHunsucker

You really think so Rob? I have heads that fly bad and when i get them aligned the fly good....maybe just a cooincidence, but i dont think so

Rob/PA Bowyer

I bet it's a cooincidence, when you spin the insert to align the vanes I bet your reseating it to spin true. An errant error is usually sign the insert isn't aligned to the arrow, not the fletch...I'd lay money on it.

MichaelHunsucker

Hmm..well ill have to pay close attention to it next time im shooting broadheads.

You learn something every day!

BGfisher

Rob is right. There are a multitude of things that can makes arrows shoot crappy with broadheads. Misaligned heads/inserts is one of them, meaning not concentric with the shaft. Incorrect arrow spine is another. FOC that is too low. Poor bow tuning or lack of tuning. These are probably the most common. Heads with a lot of blade surface don't make things easy either.

While I'm talking about alignment with the shaft let me clue you on something else. Once you align a head to a particular shaft you should never take it off. If you remove it and reinstall it again later there is no guarantee that the head will seat to that insert the same as before. It has to be spin tested each time.

If you have carbon arrows you cannot heat the inserts. They are put in with some sort of "super-glue" or epoxy. Heat will only destroy the resins in the shaft rendering that shaft destroyed. If you are bent on aligning the fletching with the heads thre is only one way to do so. You have to strip the arrow and refletch it, indexing the nocks as you need to.

mystryak

I shoot gold tip Expedition Hunters and i tried to heat up theinserts and it split the carbon about an inch so i would say its not such a good idea after all. Thankfullly i tried it on an arrow that already had a crack in it. Im not sure whats going on with my bow it was tuned perfectly and shoot good groups out to 40 yards and then I blew the peep sight out and all things went to hell.

8pt~Bowhunter

I don't think that it makes a difference.