Bowhunting Equipment

Archery, Arrows & Arrow Flight


A quiet bow is a tuned bow and it putting maximum energy into the arrow. A well tuned – and well shot – bow is able to group fletched and unfletched arrows at 50 yards/metres. Adjust the sight so that when aiming at the top "eye" line the arrow hits the bottom "arrow" line. Archery, Arrows & Arrow Flight Archery, Arrows & Arrow Flight: Bow Tuning This web page is for serious archers who will like to know more about matching arrows to their bow and fine tuning. Beiter nocks are heavier than ACE nocks and effectively STIFFEN the arrow compared with ACE nocks. Check the Quicks catalogue for the bracing height range for your bow. Choice will probably be influenced by price. Cut to the same length, these arrows should also shoot well from the same bow (after fine tuning). Cut all the arrows to length, and fletch 10 of them. Damaged fletchings are a clear indication of poor arrow clearance. Easton have developed a web application, available here, but make sure the software is set up for your bow type. Elmer to 'explain' why an arrow will hit a target when, from all appearances, it should strike to the left. Get a friend/coach to make sure the arrow is exactly horizontal at the moment of loose. Get the overall centre shot right first. Good archers are likely to have a strong and consistent shooting technique and will befit most form tuning. However for a given cross sectional area, a slightly heavier arrow will punch through the air better at the expense of sight marks at longer distances. However, this is the wrong order. However, it is impossible to get all the arrows hitting straight due to the nature of arrow physics. However, although this is currently the best design, it is also the most expensive option. However, the discussion on this page is limited to recurve bows. If the arrow hits fetching end "up", the nocking point needs to be lowered, and if it hits tail end down, the nocking point needs to be raised. If unsure, cut the arrows slightly long as they can always be shortened. If you are an 1100+ FITA archer, you will want the best, lightest, thinnest and fastest arrows possible. In engineering terms this design is far more efficient for several reasons and accounts for the greater arrow speed from a compound bow. Indeed, consistently damaged fletchings/vanes are always an indication of poor arrow clearance. Indeed, after changing bow weight the nocking point should always be rechecked. Indeed, if the centre of drag is in front of the centre of mass the arrow will have a tendency to turn round and fly "backwards". Indeed, the correct degree of arrow stiffness is one of the keys to successful archery, as will become apparent. It depends on bow length and manufacturer. It is necessary to position the nocking point on the string a few mm above horizontal so the arrow clearance and arrow flight are co-ordinated. It is quite possible to get unfletched arrows all hitting horizontally while walking back. Like any sport, archery is in large part about belief. My advice will be this: If you are missing the target once a dozen, get cheaper arrows. On the pictures below the vertical blue line is the centre shot and the horizontal blue line is the... Put another way, if a bow can be made to shoot unfletched arrows well, it will shoot fletched arrows even better! Put lipstick all over the arrow rest, shoot, and check to see if there is lip stick on the fletchings/vanes to check for clearance. Put these in six arrows, and mark the arrow to show its point weight. Repeat with fletched and unfletched arrows. The effect is that when shot the arrow will lift up and away from the arrow rest, so helping clearance. The advantage of having correct centre shot is that there will be no lateral sight adjustment between 15 and 90 metres: the arrow will be shooting straight. The arrow is straight and the string is central. The arrow will travel at close to the theoretical maximum for given design of bow, however, little of the energy stored in a bow of current design will be transferred to the momentum of a 1 gram arrow. The correct bracing height is a sweet spot. The draw weight should match the archer and the arrows should be made to match the archer + bow. The forward or soft loose – a common problem – will make an arrow appear too stiff for the bow and so it will fly badly. The high mass part of the arrow is at the front, and separated from the nock by the bendable shaft of the arrow. The static spine is a measure of the deflection a shaft. There is a page on complexity theory – with lots of pretty pictures – written by Meta here. There is also a lot of information in the Quicks catalogue which can be viewed as a .Pdf file, here. There will be a great deal of noise, and the bow will soon break. Therefore shortening an arrow will stiffen it. These are far more critical than fletched arrows. These will accentuate an incorrect centre shot and poor button adjustment. These will accentuate an incorrect nocking point. They should be checking that at the moment of loose the string alignment down the bow, and they need to see the string and bow are aligned with the gold. This can be achieved by using natural feathers, giving the vanes a helical offset or by using Spin-Wings or QuikSpin vanes. This method means the arrow leaves the bow exactly horizontally. Thus, if an arrow is too stiff the the bow weight can be increased to tune it in. Use tape to put two horizontal lines on the boss: one at eye height and one and chin/arrow height. Walk along a shooting line on a still day looking for set-ups with... Weight for various types of arrow: Once you know one type of arrow, read across for arrows of the same or similar spine. Well 1999 Easton released a pin nock for the ACE shaft giving greater accuracy and protection from tail ending of shafts. You must know that you have the right arrows.