thunderheads.. never perfect..

[Hoss]

Slick Tricks are great heads but so are the Thunderheads. It sounds like your arrows are planing. That means the blades are catching the air and trying to steer the arrow. Kind of like if you put your hand out the window of a car on the highway if you hold your hand steady and flat it will cut the wind with little resistance. Keep your palm open and rigid then turn your wrist up and down in the wind. No matter how hard you try you cannot hold the arm steady. It will wobble a little, sometimes alot.

The same holds true for arrows if the blades are moving in the wind that is called planing and the arrow will wobble. Tune the bow and tune the arrows and make sure your arrows are spined perfectly. Then the problem can be corrected. If the bow is launching the arrow out of alignment or if the arrow is spinning the blades out of alignment the arrow is going to wobble causing the blades to catch air and plane. This will cause a different point of impact for broadhead as compared to field points(no blades to plane).

 

[Headhunter]

Buckblaster, I used to shoot constantly, I do not anymore and would take some practice to do the 80 yard thing again, but I did it. Hate it your crossbow won't shoot any straighter than my compound. One way to solve the problem with field points is to not shoot them. I shoot broadhead 99 percent of the time. Instead of spending time practicing before hunting, almost all of my practice is during the season. I carry 2 extra arrows and shoot them in the ground before I get down. I had a shot pegged several years ago that was over 80 yards (the field is no longer there it is bulldozed now) and kept hoping a doe would be in the spot I knew where to hold (before I had an adjustable pin) but one never did. I have killed deer out to just past 50 yards. I will tell you this, of the deer I have lost, all of them were shots 20 yards and closer. I have missed deer out past 40 yards but every single deer I have hit past 40 yards has been recovered. I still think that no matter your bow, the closer a deer is to you, and it does not matter if the deer is unalerted, they can and will react quicker to the sound of the bow than when they are out past 40 yards where the sound of the bow is probably not even heard by the deer. All I know is the only deer I have ever lost were right on top of me and as best as I could tell all but a couple did not have a clue that I was even in the world. And I am confident with some practice I could do the 80 yard thing again, not everytime, I did not say that, it took me about 10 groups to get one group back in the package and it may take 20 groups now to get one but I could still do it. I have had a shoulder start to bother me this past year and do not care for the long practice sessions most people do. Most of my practice sessions are less than 20 shots anymore.