| A very interesting evening at Budleigh last night.
Shot the x10 410 without anything off the back. Put in it my new home made 125 grn (well 123 actually..2 grns of glue) and shot away. Perfectly spined to 30mts (bare shaft) but instantly noticeable was that the FOC kept the shaft flying like shot out of a compound..in other words very little parabolic curve. Changed to the SS110 grn and shot. Arrow perfectly spined but dropped like a brick when getting to about 25mts. FOC probably too far forward for the length of shaft used.
In supposition, the home grown piles with a reduced forward of centre than that of the SS points, will in my mind (not fully tested yet) remain on a lower trajectory than that of the SS point and as such will be less time in the air and of a lesser height so will not be affected as much by the wind....as I say it shot like an arrow out of a compound bow. As far as the SS points go, from what i saw tonight, the FOC would cause this arrow to be a high shot trajectory (wide sight marks) and with only 110 up front would probably, to a degree) negate the design benefits of the X10 shaft and probably wouldn't put much over the ACE, if at all. One has to ask why Easton make the tungsten point and the thinking behind it.
So from first tests, the 125 grn point worked as I hoped it would and for all the right reasons. More work to be done but so far looking good!
I have a shoot on sunday, a York and will probably end up shooting the X10 410 (no cut from back) and shoot the 110 grains SS points, just to see how they perform. I will not have my matched 125 grns home mades untill a week or so I guess.
Forgot to add, the engineering company sent me just one pile...a straight one too..I gues they felt guilty for messing up the job!!
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