Weighting Zwickey Delta

[Dave Lay]

I've shot Deltas forever usually on cedars or on a full length aluminum adapter to make a 175 gr head, but with my current setup I need a 200 grain head.
   I'm trying to figure the best way to get to that 200 grain keeping things as simple as possible ,and would appreciate any thoughts, I'm shooting 2020 Eastons
Thanks

[frank bullitt]

Steel adapter, lead shot, sinkers, threaded rod, a lot of ways to achieve it.

[DarkTimber]

If you are good with being 10 grs over,  just using a 75 gr steel adapter would be the simplest.  If you want to hit right at 200 gr you could use the XL Zwickey aluminum adapter that weighs 40 grs and is hollow and cut either 3 or 4 pieces of tie wire (the kind used for rebar) to fit inside the hollow part of the adapter.  Put a drop of hot melt glue on the wire pieces when you slide them in and they won't move.   That's the method I use for Deltas on a 100 gr steel adapter to bump them up to 250 gr.

[Zwickey-Fever]

There is steel broadhead adapters, brass inserts, etc., etc.,. There's more than a few ways of weighing down a broadhead. Just have to tinker around until you find the weight that makes you happy. I shoot brass inserts and steel broadhead adapters in my set up but I shoot Gold tip Traditional arrows. Best of luck! JMG

[dnovo]

I have a jig for my wood arrows. I can drill the shaft and insert different lengths or materials to up the weight. I can usually get up to 75 grains easy.

[Wudstix]

I've also heard of dropping a few shotgun pellets and packing them in the nose with a drop of glue to add some weight.

[Dave Lay]

Thanks Guys, I appreciate it. Aaron, I'll probably just go with your suggestion on the 75 gr adapter , when I was shooting bleeders I didn't like the short 75 gr adapter leaving the bleeder hole open but I've been shooting 2 blade recently
      Thanks again

[Silent footed]

I used shotgun pellets in my setup this year to match my field points to broadheads. I am only to fit enough for a 10 grain weight change before I have to trim back the taper on my wood shaft, thus losing a bit of weight to gain a tiny bit more.

I bought some woody weights to play with later this  winter. Very durable.

Dave, the woodies come in increments starting at 75 grains. With a zwickey delta, that would put you at 215 grain head weight. If you tamp (with a filed down nail and hammer) 4-5 #6 lead shotgun pellets into the ferule of your field points, and blunts, and do nothing to your judo's, then then you should have a matched set of points for any type of shooting.


Make sure you use a grain scale! Broadheads vary from their marked weight by up to 10 grains, and most don't know this, but you should already be tamping lead shot into them as well to match them on a grain scale, just to correct for manufacturing variance.

[Silent footed]

Whoops, I just realized you said you're shooting eastons. Could have sworn you said you were shooting cedars. Anyway, guess that post wasnt much help.

[Holm-Made]

I use the same set up on my 2018s.  I need my deltas to weight 200 grains to match my field points.  I use the 75 grain steel adapters.  After I true up the delta's bevels with a file and sharpen them, they weigh 125-130 grains.  So my finished head is 200-205 grains. Perfect!

[Hud]

If you have a grain scale, buy Plumbers Wool, from a supply house, not everyone carries it, but I bought 5 lbs, at a cheap price.  It is like steel wool, but made of Lead. It is already ground up, so measuring out is easy. If you need to put some in the head, a little goes a long ways. A tinny amount weighs 25 gr.