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Ok...here my quandry. I am getting great flight out of my arrows now. They are 525-530 grains including a 100 grain outsert and 100 grain tip. My sights are set for the arrow and my FOC is 16.5%. However in order to get 19% FOC I need a 150-200 grain tip. My question is that a 530 grain arrow will really put a hurting on any deer I shoot. I do have one arrow that has a 150 grain tip and weighs in at 579 grains. I did put a lumenock on all the arrows in order to get them to those weight. I don't think a 14 grain nock will drop my FOC from 16.5% or at least I hope not. I am thinking about removing the luminocks until I get the weight and FOC where I want...
Sometimes I overthink everything.
I wouldn't overly stress about it. There are two things I'll never give up and another I mostly will never give up for whitetail arrows. #1 and #2 are flight and forgiveness, and #3 is a lighted nock. I ended up with 24 grains of fletching last year. I could shoot pretty well with 18 grains of fletching, but when doing the bow torque test with broadheads the extra steering made a difference. And lighted nocks have helped on more tracking decisions than I can remember, and in finding your $70 arrow after passthroughs that ricochet through the trees. I'm only about 16.5-17% on my current setup. Could probably be over 20 if I removed weight from the back, but not worth what I'd need to give up, for me.
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