The Think Tank

Last night I fletched up 6 of my new Gold Tip Ultralight 400’s, cut to 29 inches, and I went to broken arrow to tune them up.

I started out by changing the launcher to a Standard width .010 blade.  Then I shot it through paper.  Surprisingly, the tear was perfect up and down and was about .5 to .75 inches to the left.  I tried adjusting the rest, but I wasn’t able to take the tear out, so I put it back where I had set it on Saturday afternoon.

After that, I decided to just give it a shot and see how it grouped.  I shot for a few minutes, expecting to have some side-to-side variance because of the tear, but after 5-6 site in arrows everything was in a dead straight vertical line.  I got sighted it, and decided to shoot a score.

Remember my discussion from the day before about my shoulder humping up, I paid a lot of attention to really extending my shoulder out after I set my anchor.  When I did that my bow arm came almost straight and I could feel a difference in my hand as well.

The new arrows were shooting really well.  I started out with 3 x’s and then 2 x’s, all very solid arrows.  By the half way point I was thinking that I could be onto a really good score.  I finished with 300 and 25 x’s, the second highest score of the year, and with arrows 1/3 the size of my XXX’s.  That’s kind of crazy good. I’ve never shot a 300 with outdoor arrows before.

Arrow number 2 seemed to hit a little low.  It hit the same hole (literally) at 7 o’clock on the 10/x line about 6 times in a row.  I eventually switched it for arrow #5 and starting drilling it.  (I forgot to make the change in iArcheryScores so it is not reflected below).