Pablo - thanks for heads up! I simply hadn't thought of that - the reduction in percentile difference with increased weight had completely passed me by
You're quite right - I hadn't paid extra to nail down that extra parameter so think I got a pretty good set overall; certainly can't complain - they cost me less than one pound per shaft.
Also in a wild 10 minutes, I built a quick and dirty spine tester. I don't expect it to be accurate in absolute terms but thought it may be fun to see what the shafts did relative to each other! Pretending that the deflection results were good (by eye to the nearest half mm using an old ruler!) I matched them to an AMO chart to translate them to spine weight. Discarding the highest atypical (44) "rogue" single reading, the remaining 23 shafts were all solidly in the 38-41 range with an average of 39. I know this will not be the actual value given my dodgy equipment and shoddy operator error lol, but it's a pretty good grouping - I think they did their spining well!
Also finally managed to shoot 20 yards at the club on Sunday. Did a round with my regular
recurve then switched to the Slick Stick to shoot - still with my wife's arrows. The plan was that my wife would finish her round then take a snap of me shooting - I know you need evidence
However I only managed to shoot 3 arrows - I lost 2 of 3 of the points in the straw boss
I bought the arrows ready made from a shop about 18 months ago; they had been shot at foam and 3d targets without issue but never straw bosses before. The I lost another point in my bag target at home this afternoon....
So my next question is an obvious one - what glues the points on best? I need to use the right stuff to put my wife's arrows back together as well as build my own! I gather normal super glue is too brittle. I did come across several recommendations but can't be sure they come from people who shoot at straw glue-ridden bosses. The recommendations include:
Araldite
Super Glue with rubber infused gel (
Loctite Ultra Control Gel - 3 g: Amazon.co.uk: Office Products). I bought this already but am now unsure!
BohningFerr-L-Tite (a hot melt cement)
Hmm ... couldn't be more different to each other! I will be using taper non-screw field point on the shafts - and thinking of heating the points first so they contract and sit as flush as possible with the shafts. All suggestions welcome!
Thanks
Rod