When to start bare shaft tuning yourself.

[Duss]

Originally Posted by King Custard

while we're threatening to get another thread removed....
Does colder weather make bare shafts any stiffer?

serious question!

During the Christmas holidays I have been testing my bow while the temperatures were at around -10C and I FELT everything was harder to pull.

I had been doing some paper tests but I may assume the "strange" results I was getting were due to the increased stiffness of my fingers and of the tab material.

You may definitely get some changes in cold weather. The causes may not be very definite. If the bare shafts are stiffer, the fletched one shall be just the same.

[geoffretired]

Don't forget, in really cold weather the paper can be so stiff that the arrows hitting it are upset and tend to give strange tears. I suppose the front of the arrow slows down until the paper is punctured, so bending the arrow as if it were being shot again.This second bending of the arrow has no time to straighten as it happens at the paper surface.

[Duss]

Originally Posted by geoffretired

Don't forget, in really cold weather the paper can be so stiff that the arrows hitting it are upset and tend to give strange tears. I suppose the front of the arrow slows down until the paper is punctured, so bending the arrow as if it were being shot again.This second bending of the arrow has no time to straighten as it happens at the paper surface.

Rippin' hilarious!