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Practice Limbs/Arrow Build

Micneador

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Not sure how to word the title, but anyway. I'm wanting to buy some light poundage limbs for off season practice. Currently shooting a warf/frankenbow/qwarf, whatever it's considered now, bear black bear riser, sage 55# limbs, 340 spine golt tip trad 30.5", 100gr insert, 200gr head, and 28"ish draw. Tuned this set up last year, got it flying right, love the way it shoots.

Was thinking about getting some 30 or 35lb limbs and building up some arrows, but not sure what spine to use with the proper insert/head weight to somewhat match the trajectory of my current hunting arrows. Any insight or suggestions? Maybe get a speed off the hunting rig and build an arrow to tune to that speed?
 
I've thought about doing the same thing. I was going to put all of the specs of the heavy bow and arrow combo into the 3rivers calculator, then use the form calibration tool to adjust the numbers to match if they don't already. Then put the specs of the lighter limbs and play with the calculator until I found an arrow that it says was tuned and has a similar speed. I think that would get you close.
 
Why not just get a black hunter in that draw weight for basically a hundred bucks? I would probably try a 500 spine first.
 
Here's another thought. The reason I didn't do what your talking about was because when I shot my 44# bow to work on form for any appreciable amount of time the 52# bow would feel heavy when I would go back to it and it would be harder to have good form then if I just kept shooting the 52#.

If I were to get a lightweight bow to work on form I would use it to solely work on form on a blind bale or at close enough distances the trajectory wouldn't matter.
 
I've thought about doing the same thing. I was going to put all of the specs of the heavy bow and arrow combo into the 3rivers calculator, then use the form calibration tool to adjust the numbers to match if they don't already. Then put the specs of the lighter limbs and play with the calculator until I found an arrow that it says was tuned and has a similar speed. I think that would get you close.

I didnt even think of that. Just going off of that calculator, it looks like a gold tip trad 500 with standard insert and 100gr point fits close to the same speed off the bow as my hunting rig.
 
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