wildernessmaster
Lil-Rokslider
Well Fellow Rokslide Archers...
First let me thank you all for your valuable feedback and input. I wanted to follow-up and post my progress and findings as I take the knowledge you have given me and put it to the test.
As a result of the input I decided to do some test trials. Since I have three bows I am working up I decided to buy a smorgashboard of the arrows you recommended (test sets of 1 or 2), and use the test tip packs to figure out what works for each bow best.
A little side note... My previous arrow that shoots like lightening bolts and is dead-on accurate out of all three bows was a RIP TKO 350. I did some workup on it and here were my FOC and TAW findings:
Tip Weight FOC TAW
------------ ----- -----
100 11% 410
125 13.9% 435
150 15.6% 460
175 17.8% 485
200 19.7% 510
I was pretty shock at how light of an arrow set up it was. I wonder if this arrow is even valid to hunt medium (deer+) game given you have to get to a 200 gr tip to even break 500 grs. Input?
Back to the current testing...
The arrows I picked to put into my heavy arrow, high foc test include:
Arrow Spine GPI Outer/Inner
----------- ------- ----- --------------
Day6 HD 300 11.2 .263/165 (unclear)
Day6 HD 250 12.6 (unclear)
Axis 5mm Match Pro 300 10.7 .273/.196
Axis 5mm Match Pro 260 11.5 .280/.196
Black Eagle Spartan 300 9 .282/.224
Black Eagle Spartan 250 10 .289/.224
Gold Tip Hunter XT 300 9.3 .302/.246
I also have the 250ish GTH on backorder.
A few things I noted was the diversity of shaft weights relative to diameter of the arrow. Kind of shocking. The GTH is by far the larger diameter arrow yet, it is one of the lighter ones.
Right now I am trying to find inserts to fit all of these size arrows. I wanted to get Ethics inserts but it looks like they don't have all the sizes I need. Any one got any suggestions for inserts please add. Once I get them cut and inserts added I will start testing and will put my results on here.
For now if you have:
1. Weighted insert suggestions please send them.
2. Ideas for paper holders that for the paper shooting/tuning - I don't want to spend a ton of $$.
Look for more updates as I add them.
First let me thank you all for your valuable feedback and input. I wanted to follow-up and post my progress and findings as I take the knowledge you have given me and put it to the test.
As a result of the input I decided to do some test trials. Since I have three bows I am working up I decided to buy a smorgashboard of the arrows you recommended (test sets of 1 or 2), and use the test tip packs to figure out what works for each bow best.
A little side note... My previous arrow that shoots like lightening bolts and is dead-on accurate out of all three bows was a RIP TKO 350. I did some workup on it and here were my FOC and TAW findings:
Tip Weight FOC TAW
------------ ----- -----
100 11% 410
125 13.9% 435
150 15.6% 460
175 17.8% 485
200 19.7% 510
I was pretty shock at how light of an arrow set up it was. I wonder if this arrow is even valid to hunt medium (deer+) game given you have to get to a 200 gr tip to even break 500 grs. Input?
Back to the current testing...
The arrows I picked to put into my heavy arrow, high foc test include:
Arrow Spine GPI Outer/Inner
----------- ------- ----- --------------
Day6 HD 300 11.2 .263/165 (unclear)
Day6 HD 250 12.6 (unclear)
Axis 5mm Match Pro 300 10.7 .273/.196
Axis 5mm Match Pro 260 11.5 .280/.196
Black Eagle Spartan 300 9 .282/.224
Black Eagle Spartan 250 10 .289/.224
Gold Tip Hunter XT 300 9.3 .302/.246
I also have the 250ish GTH on backorder.
A few things I noted was the diversity of shaft weights relative to diameter of the arrow. Kind of shocking. The GTH is by far the larger diameter arrow yet, it is one of the lighter ones.
Right now I am trying to find inserts to fit all of these size arrows. I wanted to get Ethics inserts but it looks like they don't have all the sizes I need. Any one got any suggestions for inserts please add. Once I get them cut and inserts added I will start testing and will put my results on here.
For now if you have:
1. Weighted insert suggestions please send them.
2. Ideas for paper holders that for the paper shooting/tuning - I don't want to spend a ton of $$.
Look for more updates as I add them.