doc holiday13
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I'm jumping the FOC bandwagon.. just not the "extreme" foc bandwagon
I'm waffling on what spine i need for my 30" draw Z7
Current setup is Axis 300 w/ 50g insert and 100g head . This setup is sitting around 505g . 3 vanes and 10g wrap.
Looking at going to 150g broadheads but not sure if I can get away with 300 spine. Looking at either black eagle Rampage or X-impact so I'll sitting between ~505-530g. Thats if I can stick to 300 spine. These will have a 4" wrap
I'm probably going to have to bite the bullet and jump to a 250 spine because I want 150g heads. Arrow Guru's please impart thy knowledge
*update 2/22/22
I bought a new bow and I'm properly fitted at this point with a 31" draw. Arrows I'm trying out are BE Rampage and X-impact 250 spine and using Ethics inserts with collars. My goal was to break 15% FOC and with the new Ventum 33 set to 75# , I didn't have an issue doing this.. Arrows are actually about 50g heavier than I was originally shooting for because I thought that 550g arrow was going to be at the 275-280 fps mark. And this bow was throwing 550g arrows at 288 fps.. So i added another 35 grains to slow it down closer to the 280 fps mark
I'm having a couple of "woes" with Black Eagle arrows but part of the woes are due to old epoxy. I bought some new epoxy that should be here today. While waiting for the epoxy to ship I built some arrows this past weekend using AL insert w/AL collars from Ethics and glued everything together with hot melt.
I did not heat my arrow shafts directly. Once I dry fit the components with a field point, I marked the collar and arrow with a sharpie when I got the insert and point to spin true. The arrow did require some very light sanding with some 340 grit paper to get an interference/slip fit with the collar. I removed the collar and insert as a unit. I heated the glue and insert with a heat gun. Once the glue was heated, i started applying it to the insert in small globs and then applied heat from the heat gun to smooth out the glue evenly on the insert. I inserted the components in 1 shot so the collars are glued in too. I dropped the arrows into some water after assembly. I would assume this is the best connection. If hot melt fails me, then I have the new epoxy to fall back on.
I'm waffling on what spine i need for my 30" draw Z7
Current setup is Axis 300 w/ 50g insert and 100g head . This setup is sitting around 505g . 3 vanes and 10g wrap.
Looking at going to 150g broadheads but not sure if I can get away with 300 spine. Looking at either black eagle Rampage or X-impact so I'll sitting between ~505-530g. Thats if I can stick to 300 spine. These will have a 4" wrap
I'm probably going to have to bite the bullet and jump to a 250 spine because I want 150g heads. Arrow Guru's please impart thy knowledge
*update 2/22/22
I bought a new bow and I'm properly fitted at this point with a 31" draw. Arrows I'm trying out are BE Rampage and X-impact 250 spine and using Ethics inserts with collars. My goal was to break 15% FOC and with the new Ventum 33 set to 75# , I didn't have an issue doing this.. Arrows are actually about 50g heavier than I was originally shooting for because I thought that 550g arrow was going to be at the 275-280 fps mark. And this bow was throwing 550g arrows at 288 fps.. So i added another 35 grains to slow it down closer to the 280 fps mark
I'm having a couple of "woes" with Black Eagle arrows but part of the woes are due to old epoxy. I bought some new epoxy that should be here today. While waiting for the epoxy to ship I built some arrows this past weekend using AL insert w/AL collars from Ethics and glued everything together with hot melt.
I did not heat my arrow shafts directly. Once I dry fit the components with a field point, I marked the collar and arrow with a sharpie when I got the insert and point to spin true. The arrow did require some very light sanding with some 340 grit paper to get an interference/slip fit with the collar. I removed the collar and insert as a unit. I heated the glue and insert with a heat gun. Once the glue was heated, i started applying it to the insert in small globs and then applied heat from the heat gun to smooth out the glue evenly on the insert. I inserted the components in 1 shot so the collars are glued in too. I dropped the arrows into some water after assembly. I would assume this is the best connection. If hot melt fails me, then I have the new epoxy to fall back on.
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