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How many of you can can honestly say that your broadheads fly just like your field points, without making any adjustments to your bow?

Take a field point off and put your broadhead on and it impacts the same point.(All vanes touching at 30 yards).

I have yet to have a broadhead hit the same as my field points without making some sight adjustment...(100 gr. Muzzy / 100 gr. bullet field point).
 
I can, but I've also gone through two dozen plus arrows to find the ones on which the BHs spin truest. Then I've worked with my bow to get them hitting the same spot.

I'll be starting over this summer. I'm switching vanes on all my hunting arrows from Blazers to FF360s.
 
A lot depends on the broadhead that you're using. Most any fixed blade will fly a bit differently then a field point but there are some mechanicals that are so close as to be the same. Grim Reapers are suppose to fly very closely to a field point of the same weight.
Also, if you're using a fixed blade broadhead watch your FOC. It needs to be higher for the tips to fly right.
Right now my FOC is only about 8.5-8.9% depending on wether I go with a 75 or 85gr tip so I'd not be very good with a fixed broadhead but since I plan on using GR's this fall I should be good enough.
 
I can. I will get sites close when setting up a bow. Then I will broadhead tune and get them flying the same. After that its field points from then on, except just to check that nothing has changed.
 
Mine really does shoot tip and blades the same... but that was after finding what my bow likes the best. Also that is tuned arrows, and a REALLY tuned bow. I shoot muzzy fixed 3 blade 100gr I can also shoot plungers, and adder points the same spot on the target.
The sad thing is next year I will have to replace the string and cable again... and hopefully after shooting a couple hundred times, I can get the bow shooting as well as it does now.
 
Thanks guys, well I guess I'm not doing something right after 35 years of shooting....Your right on tuning maybe I need to redo mine...I also may be trying to put 3 arrows at 30 yards on top of one another...to me that's what I have to have....
 
I just walked in the house a few minutes ago...I shot a few before getting ready for church... I shot 1-field tip, 1-Muzzy, & 1-Rage.... All 3 of them were in a circle about the size of a coffee cup at 30-yds....

I probably will never have another bow that shoots that good...I just got lucky when setting this thing up and got it right...I can usually get them close, but never that good.... I am gonna be real easy with this thing before bow season...
 
I've just done basic tuning to my bow so far. I adjusted the rest to square thing up, did a walk back to further adjust the rest to get the thing shooting straight and now I need to paper tune but being on the lazy side I have no idea when I'll get around to do it. Once I'm paper tuned and get the money for the Grim Reapers that I'm going to use this fall I'll tune a bit with those although they're suppose to shoot just like a field point so I really don't know how much tweaking I'll need to do.
I'd really like to get together with some of ya'll that know more about compounds then I do so I can get this thing really tweaked in.
 
bobthebowhunter said:
No offense, but I would blame the muzzy's
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Just curious, what makes you just automatically blame the broadhead? You have no idea what kind of, if any, tuning method he used? The Muzzys I use hit the same as my field points.
 
TheAirMan said:
bobthebowhunter said:
No offense, but I would blame the muzzy's
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Just curious, what makes you just automatically blame the broadhead? You have no idea what kind of, if any, tuning method he used? The Muzzys I use hit the same as my field points.
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I also tried Muzzy and they would not shoot same as field tips out of my bow or some of my buddy's bow either. Tried slick Tricks and G5 Strikers and they both hit same as field tips. Been several years since I tried Muzzy's so they may be better now but I have no reason to go back to them.
 
TheAirMan said:
bobthebowhunter said:
No offense, but I would blame the muzzy's
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Just curious, what makes you just automatically blame the broadhead? You have no idea what kind of, if any, tuning method he used? The Muzzys I use hit the same as my field points.
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Because thats my opinon of them after shooting them. They're junk.

I didn't say a thing about his bow or the tuning of his bow for one. For two I shot those broadhead for two years with many problems, and yes I did tune my bow. One would hit and the next one wouldn't. So I'm not just talking out of my a$$ or bashing the brand. I'm speaking from experiance. They are cheap and incosistant in their construction. Any broadhead that has 5 parts that are left to the user to assemble will have room for inconsistancy. I finally saved my money, got educated and tried other broad heads. Some work some don't. You can tune to some and some you can't. While others have had luck with them I have not. I'm sure next thing you'll say I don't know how to tune a bow, but you'd be wrong to say that for sure.
 
Well, I've pretty much made my mind up that I'm going with ABC Sonics for a cheap broadhead and Grim Reapers for my "expensive" broadhead. From what I've read both will fly right with your field points if your field points are tuned to your bow. If anyone else has a better idea(and cheaper) then please, let us know about it.
 
bobthebowhunter said:
TheAirMan said:
bobthebowhunter said:
No offense, but I would blame the muzzy's
Click to expand...

Just curious, what makes you just automatically blame the broadhead? You have no idea what kind of, if any, tuning method he used? The Muzzys I use hit the same as my field points.
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Because thats my opinon of them after shooting them. They're junk.

I didn't say a thing about his bow or the tuning of his bow for one. For two I shot those broadhead for two years with many problems, and yes I did tune my bow. One would hit and the next one wouldn't. So I'm not just talking out of my a$$ or bashing the brand. I'm speaking from experiance. They are cheap and incosistant in their construction. Any broadhead that has 5 parts that are left to the user to assemble will have room for inconsistancy. I finally saved my money, got educated and tried other broad heads. Some work some don't. You can tune to some and some you can't. While others have had luck with them I have not. I'm sure next thing you'll say I don't know how to tune a bow, but you'd be wrong to say that for sure.
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You have know idea what I am going to say next. As I said before I was just curious why you were blaming the broadhead without any other information. A simple I tried them and they didn't work for me would have worked. You didn't have to get all pissy. I never said you or anyone in this post didn't know how to tune a bow. I asked what kind they did.
 

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