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Where are my fellow recurve bowhunters? I have a 50 lb takedown style recurve that I shoot quite often in the backyard and I'm trying to choose the right spine of arrow. I normally shoot the gold tip trad 400's but I have destroyed them over this past year LOL. so I'm looking into having some new ones made, just looking for tips or advice on arrow spine for 50 lb bow.
 
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Where are my fellow recurve bowhunters? I have a 50 lb takedown style recurve that I shoot quite often in the backyard and I'm trying to choose the right spine of arrow. I normally shoot the gold tip trad 400's but I have destroyed them over this past year LOL. so I'm looking into having some new ones made, just looking for tips or advice on arrow spine for 50 lb bow.
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Wish I could help. I shoot wooden arrows out of my recurves, longbows, and selfbows.
 
Chickencoop96 said:
Where are my fellow recurve bowhunters? I have a 50 lb takedown style recurve that I shoot quite often in the backyard and I'm trying to choose the right spine of arrow. I normally shoot the gold tip trad 400's but I have destroyed them over this past year LOL. so I'm looking into having some new ones made, just looking for tips or advice on arrow spine for 50 lb bow.
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I shoot gold tip 400's with 175gr up front out of my #55 recurve. They fly great.
 
A lot of spine determination would depend on actual draw length, is your riser cut to center +/-, total point weight (point and insert). I've found that 3-Rivers arrow chart is useful as a starting point.


I'm currently hunting with an ILF with a Springy rest, so I have a lot of adjustability in my set-up. An ILF lets me tune my bow to the arrows I want to shoot instead of having to tune my arrows to the bow, like most recurves; 28 inch draw (measured), 45#'s at 28, Gold Tip 500's cut to 29", standard insert, 125-grain heads. My arrows are borderline week and I have the rest bumped out to compensate.

I'm wanting to reduce my aiming gap for 20 yards, so I'm in the process of changing my set-up and have new arrows on the way. I've gone with full length (32") Gold Tip 340's, 100-grain inserts, and 125-grain points. I should be able to move my rest in some and the extra weight and length will put my point closer to bullseye at 20 yards.

A good way to play around with different arrows and spine is to use Easton Gamegetter arrows (aluminum). Get them full length and any cheap pipe cutter will work for trimming them as you tune them to your bow.
 
I've got several different trad bows from self bows to recurves and draw weights from 25 - 55 lb. I'm no expert just love a good stick bow and have a ball shooting them. But for arrows (all full length) I shoot 500 spine Victory v force and Easton power flight with 125gr head. The heavier ones I shoot full length 400 spine Gold Tip hunters with 100gr brass inserts and 125-150gr points. That's what fly good out of mine.
 

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