Arrows weight

Who goes to the trouble of weighing arrows?
Who thinks it matters?
How do you do it if you do?

[Marcus26]

Certainly
0.1 of a grain matched for my X10's.

[joetapley]

As a rule of thumb for a recurve archer arrows should match to around 1 grain, though of course you can improve on this.

With good quality arrows and components (basically Easton) you will get an acceptable weight match naturally (barring the occasional rogue) so the average archer doesn't generally have to bother much about weight.

For elite archers for competition purposes different kettle of fish of course as regards arrow selection and weight matching is only one factor.

Our club (as all should) has a grain scale so always worth running a new set of arrows over it. Pity if don't spot a rogue arrow until after it's already cost you points in a competition.

[Rik]

I weigh my arrows, matching components up to shafts to give the best weight match across the set... It's not that I think it makes a difference for me, but it's one less point to think about afterwards. It *may* also help to spot a rogue shaft - if (for example) you spot that one shaft is significantly different in weight to the others, that may be a warning sign.

If I didn't weigh components, I wouldn't know that (to give an example) Easton ACE point and inserts vary a fair amount more in weight than Cartel break-off points...

I was given a set of "reloading scales" a few years back, which are ideal for this sort of thing. They're a simple balance, magnetically damped to make them easier to read, and go down to 1/10 grain. I can weigh fletches, nocks, points, whole arrows using them (though I modified the pan for weighing shafts - they had a tendency to roll off!).