How to stiffen an arrow

[Jerry Tee]

Originally Posted by wingate_52

I use separate buttons and arrow rests indoor and out. Last year I weakened my button to compensate. This year I have raised the bow weight. Will stiffening the button change anything? I used to wind my sight pin 10mm to the left in a successful attempt to get everything working.This year upping the power has sorted things out.

You would be better off doing a bare shaft tune, rather than tweek and hope.

[TWIW]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

I think you have answered your own question

I agree. Looks like an ad on AIUK

[numpty]

You could make the arrow out of Stainless Steel. That would stiffen them.

[Albert]

Extra strands.
More serving.
Heavier serving.

Don't understand why you are willing to add strands to your string etc. but not willing to lower the poundage slightly.

[ASW1973]

none of the methods for stiffening the arrow will make the slightest effective difference. Yes you should have got 400's at least, no discussion. If it is going to bug you then ditch the 500 and get some 400s.
However and again i am going down a route lead by tom!!!
Just shoot them at 18m check nocking point with bare shaft and if they shoot good groups and the bare shaft does not bug you then get on and use them. If the bare shaft is anything less than a foot whippy at 18m you are out of alignement and torquing the bow. Dont mess with pressure button as one person i saw had done recently to the point where he may as well have had a nail for a button and wondered why he shot left and right!!

[ASW1973]

or plan b wind the bow down to 42lbs and they may tune

[Schme1440]

So in addition to the methods I suggested adding rear end weight mite also help.

No I have not tested the arrows yet as I am waiting for my new bow. I was looking for a list of methods incase they were too wippy.

Winding the bow down wont be an option as It will not be wound up. I could ask if they are not wound all the way out then it maybe an option but if the tiller can not be wound out much then it wont be an option. I like shooting 48lb and dont fancy lowering my poundage. Id rather buy new shafts which may become an option.

[Shirt]

Until you've actually shot the things, you've got no idea whether they're too weak or not. Bear in mind that a lot of people with the new CarbonExpress Nanos and McKinneys are (re!)discovering that a parallel shaft shoots stiffer than a barrelled one - e.g. for an ACE400 shoot a McKinney 500.

Now, if I recall correctly, you shoot an X10 500. Presumably that works to some level of acceptability, you can tune it more or less so you're happy? 500 spine stuff would therefore probably be about right... at least right enough that you can make it shoot acceptably. But you really can't tell until you've shot them, and it'd be a fairly base mistake to go and do all manner of things to an arrow and your bow in the hope of getting a perceived weak arrow to be stiffer when it may then turn out to have been right in the first place.

[Schme1440]

Originally Posted by Shirt

Until you've actually shot the things, you've got no idea whether they're too weak or not. Bear in mind that a lot of people with the new CarbonExpress Nanos and McKinneys are (re!)discovering that a parallel shaft shoots stiffer than a barrelled one - e.g. for an ACE400 shoot a McKinney 500.

Now, if I recall correctly, you shoot an X10 500. Presumably that works to some level of acceptability, you can tune it more or less so you're happy? 500 spine stuff would therefore probably be about right... at least right enough that you can make it shoot acceptably. But you really can't tell until you've shot them, and it'd be a fairly base mistake to go and do all manner of things to an arrow and your bow in the hope of getting a perceived weak arrow to be stiffer when it may then turn out to have been right in the first place.

I will have to shoot the arrows first just want to know what I can do if the spine is wrong.

All the charts say that the spine should be fine. I normally shoot a stiff spine (yes I do shoot 500 X10 but have some cut off the back to stiffen a little) so Im hoping it should be fine. We shall see. My worry with going to 400 is will they be too stiff? On paper yes. I will just have to give it a go and see what happens. Hopefully wraps will help stiffen the rear end (if anything) but we shall see.

[wingate_52]

My indoor Fatboys shoot well, as do my 610 navigators outdoors.I only change the rest and button. The Fatboys are not in the T5 box on Easton's arrow selector but in their configuration they work. Try yours and see what they do.