practice shooting
#11
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: practice shooting
It can make a lot of difference on how they fly. Do most of your practice with your field tips. When we get a little closer to hunting you should select the arrows you' re going to hunt with, put a broadhead on, spin test and test fly them. You want them to hit as near as close to your field tips as possible. A well tuned bow will put them in the same place. The groups will NOT be as tight, but they should be close. Each arrow should be tuned to a particular broadhead. Once set you should sharpen or replace inserts and put it in your quiver. The next time you shoot it it should be at an animal. Depending on your set up, tune and all those other techie things... you may find a disaster when you try broadheads. Regroup and start over. The arrow tables are a guide and will usually work, but sometimes you have to make some adjustments. You don' t need to practice with broadheads all the time.... but you should shoot enough to know where they' re going. I hunt a long season and also hunt on crop damage so keep some arrows tuned with broadheads at all times. If I buy some new ones the first thing I do once I know they' re shooting OK is to install broadheads, test fly them, set aside the best for hunting and the rejects for practice. YOU WILL have rejects in every batch. Sometimes an arrow just can' t be made to work... especially with the carbons. With the aluminums you can heat and rotate inserts and all those neat little tricks to find the best spot for the best flight... but that' s hard with carbons as you can ruin it.
#12
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Clarendon NC USA
Posts: 216
RE: practice shooting
Here is a nice web site for a chart to aid in setting your sight pins....If you get any two pins set, you can use this chart (sight-cal-300) to set the rest....This chart really works.......http://www.centenaryarchers.gil.com.....htm#Calibrate your Sight
I bet you' ll be grouping in a 6" circle at 30 yards rather than 30' (feet) by October!
If your sights are tight and not loose, any error in your shooting will be due to you and not the pins. Try drawing your bow but let someone else pull the trigger on your release..........to your surprise, you will never miss your target.........Most errors are from improper releasing.......
I bet you' ll be grouping in a 6" circle at 30 yards rather than 30' (feet) by October!
If your sights are tight and not loose, any error in your shooting will be due to you and not the pins. Try drawing your bow but let someone else pull the trigger on your release..........to your surprise, you will never miss your target.........Most errors are from improper releasing.......