Alright all you AD Shooters, Heres my Question...I have a 56# Whip and a 54# Recurve, I bought AD Trad Heavys with nock inserts. I am planning on using 100grn Brass Inserts with 150 Grn WW Heads. How Long should I leave my Arrows?? Hate to glue in the inserts only to find that too stiff too weak spine. Granted, I know that only test shooting will yield results I'm looking for. I was hoping for a little input on length from some similar setups. Again, Thanks for all the Help.This is Truly a Great Place. Tu Compadre y Cazadore de Tejas, Suty
Just use a quality hot melt....works perfectly well on carbon...just don't use the brittle stuff like Ferr-L-Tite, that stuff is junk! The best hotmelt I've found is the tiny lil sticks that Easton gives you with their ACCs. There's a similarly hearty formulation sold in craft stores...generally (for whatever reason) the darker colored, rubbery sticks work best. Then tune, cut, insert, etc...as usual.
-ROb
I did not know they had 100 grain inserts for them, IO thought 70 grain ones, the regular 100 brass inserts for other carbons will not work. Shawn
OOOPS, did not know, I just ordered a dozen from 3 Rivers. Where would I get the others, and are there any 100's out there? Tu Compadre, Suty
I'm shooting some out of a 55# recurve. I have them cut 29" with the aluminum insert, and a broadhead and adapter combination that weighs 160 grains. So basically I have around 200 grains up front. They fly awesome.
Cut them down from the nock end. I glue in the insert, then use 50gr or 20gr weights that screw into the back of the insert. Get the weight up front you want and pull the nock out and cut it down like you would a wood arrow until they bareshaft good. Then I also use the tubes to add 5gr. per inch, insert nock. Shoot again. If good, fletch those babies.
No Snag...not on the AD shafts...they have continuous taper and cutting from the nock end makes em stiffer'n a board. Don't do that, whatever you do. Regular, parallel shaft carbons...especially HIT insert models, you bet...but not these.
-Rob
You can get 100 gr. inserts for AD's at gomuzzy.com
Thats where I picked up mine.