schmalts

I am leaving for my Elk hunt in 7 days, still trying to get a broadhead to fly as good as a field point. Maybe i am being unrealistic to get that from a fixed blade head for a 280fps bow, and 4 inch helical vanes on a nitro stinger shaft. I bought 125$ in heads this week, mostly mechs for deer but lastly bought some muzzy 3blade 100's. The practice blades that came with the pack seem to fly nice, but the real blades fly about 6" high and left at 40yrds. I tuned the bow to shoot bullet holes in paper so the arrows are coming out of the bow good. Has anyone ever had a difference in the muzzy practice points?? 5 shot, what was your best flying fixed blade 100gr? I bought the muzzy3 blades for the little extra cutting diameter. should i just move my sight pin to pull the muzzy group in or try a different head. What about going to a 5" vane, would that help?

jetblast

I've never had a problem with differences between practice blades and regular blades. But I usually shoot around 250 fps and FP and BH's hit the same spot. Not sure what to tell ya. Are you shooting bullet holes at different yardages? If your groups are tight, I would sight in to the real blades.

nub

I don't normally shoot my practice blades because I have dozens of spare dull originals. When I do shoot them they fly the same as the real thing for me. I use 125gr. 3 blades on a ACC with 3-4&quot; feathers at 275 fps. With as much helical as I can put on them. Good luck on your Elk hunt. With a little luck mine will be letting the air pressure out of some Moose lungs in 7 days.<img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>

schmalts

Good luck on the moose hunt. send me pics if you get one. As far as the helical i use an arizona fletcher. Not sure what the amount of helix is, anyone know????

PABowhntr

I did not notice a difference between the practice and normal blades either but then again each person's setup can vary so widely that it is possible they will have different effects on different bows.

I believe that besides the Muzzy, 5shot also thought highly of the Rocky Mountain Ti.

Straightarrow

I haven't noticed any difference in my practice blades on the Muzzys. I believe your bow needs more tuning. I almost never find paper tuning to be adequate to get the best broadhead flight. I'd recommend bare shaft tuning out to 20-25 yards. Then see how they fly. I also recommend experimenting with arrow spine, by changing your draw weight a few pounds at a time. There will be an optimum draw weight for your particular arrow broadhead combination and you should experiment to find it.

schmalts

I had this problem with my bow always. high left with fixed blades of any size. I used trilock 80's and had good flight but they are a pretty small diameter. I might get a new fletch tool with more helical and try that, what do you guys think?

MJL927

I always shoot the Muzzy practice blades and tune the bow with em. Then I shoot last years real blades and make any fine sight adjustments. Usually this is unecessary or very very minimal. Finally, I shoot the actual arrows I plan to hunt with a couple of times to be sure. I then put the new blades on em and put em away for hunting. For continued practice, I shoot my other arrows with a combination of practiced blades and field points.

IMN23D

For me.....won't use the practice blades. Muzzy 100 gr impacts the same as field points for me. Until I throw the practice blades on. Then my groups are scattered until I put the regular blades back on.

schmalts

well i dont feel alone now that some of you have had differences with the practice blade. I wonder why they made them a different profile than the real blades, if they were the same they would fly the same. because of the 2 angles on the practice blades there is less surface to plane an arrow with, and thats my problem