The (mis)adventures and thoughts of an aspiring master archer, lifter, and fantasy author who happens to be irresistibly drawn towards wolves, raptors, and parrots. They may say there's no such thing as Paradise or Perfection, yet I'm still searching for them. Why do I keep searching? A voice speaks to me and says: "Search for Paradise and aspire for Perfection"...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Blackhawk Vapor 2000
I'm in the process of experimenting with some new arrows I got, some Blackhawk Vapor Hunter 2000, which are spined for 35-45 lbs. So far, from bare-shafting in my apartment, it looks like the uncut shaft with a 100 grain point seems to be doing reasonably well (ie, flight is fairly straight aside from some porpoising with a bias towards nock-high). I tried the 125 and 145 grain points and I kept going tail-left, indicating that the arrows were shooting weak. I actually had some trouble remembering which went tail-left and tail-right so I had to experiment with a combination that I knew was not going to work very well -- namely the 30 lb recurve with a bare shaft that I knew spined really well for the River's Edge Recurve I seem to have gotten rather fond of the last few months. It flew tail severely to the right and I confirmed it with a few replicates and taking my 40 lb longbow and putting that through. It flew idiotically tail-right so I knew tail-left meant that the arrow was spining weak. I actually like my arrows to spine slightly weak after realizing that dead-on spining or slightly stiff spining actually hurts me in competition. Of course, things are very likely to change once I get the ratty Bear-hair rest and strike-plate off my little Chek-Mate and replace it with a nicer rest and probably readjust the the nock-set. That might also help with the problem of my arrows constantly flying nock-high because the Bear-hair rest does elevate the arrow quite a bit. I can't wait for some non-windy, non-stormy weather days where I'm not going to be stuck in front of a computer for too many hours a day! I still have to fletch the rest of the shafts and put in inserts but I'm holding off on doing so until I get a good bare-shaft tuning after changing out that ratty rest.
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