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Hi all,
after a lapse of more than 8 years (marrying, moving, having children, work, no nearby club)... finally I started again practicing.
I decided to upgrade my arrows (I shoot 30lbs @ 27in) from 1716 xx75 legacy to carbon.
I don't know why (probably due to some mistake in measuring my bow poundage or skipping a line in the Easton table) I was suggested to buy a set of Easton apollo 740.
It took a good while to recover part of my form and, say, "doing better than the arrows". So these arrows, are of course, as I was suspecting right there at the shop, way too stiff and impossible to tune: I can put my old alu arrows in the yellow at 18m, but scatter the new apollo 740 all over the outer red.
So... I am planning to strictly follow the Easton chart (I am well into the T2), I do not plan to increase my bow poundage soon (and anyway I have no hope to reach 36/40lbs), and going to buy a set of apollo 950 hoping for the best.
Now I have this dozen of "pointless" 740 carbon arrow shafts, the points will go into the new shafts.
According to the shop and friends they will be impossible to sell secondhand since anyone able to shoot 38lbs is not going to use Apollo for wanting better shafts.
What I am supposed to do?
i) Keep them under my eyes as a lesson learned to remember to be more confident and assertive when I go shopping and careful in measuring...
ii) Donate them to the club...
iii) Try to soften them using heavier points.
My idea is to use them as spare/disposable shafts in my makeshift, lockdown ready, 10m backyard range where the risk of destroying arrows is pretty high. but I have no idea how heavy the points I can use in the range 75-150gr to recover at least part of this sunken cost.
Any of you had a similar experience? Do you think that a 100-120gr breakoff point may help? Is it too heavy, too light? I remember from my past life that there was a rule of thumb linking stiffness with point weight, but I may just be wrong
thanks for your help and suggestions! I am really happy to be back on the field!
after a lapse of more than 8 years (marrying, moving, having children, work, no nearby club)... finally I started again practicing.
I decided to upgrade my arrows (I shoot 30lbs @ 27in) from 1716 xx75 legacy to carbon.
I don't know why (probably due to some mistake in measuring my bow poundage or skipping a line in the Easton table) I was suggested to buy a set of Easton apollo 740.
It took a good while to recover part of my form and, say, "doing better than the arrows". So these arrows, are of course, as I was suspecting right there at the shop, way too stiff and impossible to tune: I can put my old alu arrows in the yellow at 18m, but scatter the new apollo 740 all over the outer red.
So... I am planning to strictly follow the Easton chart (I am well into the T2), I do not plan to increase my bow poundage soon (and anyway I have no hope to reach 36/40lbs), and going to buy a set of apollo 950 hoping for the best.
Now I have this dozen of "pointless" 740 carbon arrow shafts, the points will go into the new shafts.
According to the shop and friends they will be impossible to sell secondhand since anyone able to shoot 38lbs is not going to use Apollo for wanting better shafts.
What I am supposed to do?
i) Keep them under my eyes as a lesson learned to remember to be more confident and assertive when I go shopping and careful in measuring...
ii) Donate them to the club...
iii) Try to soften them using heavier points.
My idea is to use them as spare/disposable shafts in my makeshift, lockdown ready, 10m backyard range where the risk of destroying arrows is pretty high. but I have no idea how heavy the points I can use in the range 75-150gr to recover at least part of this sunken cost.
Any of you had a similar experience? Do you think that a 100-120gr breakoff point may help? Is it too heavy, too light? I remember from my past life that there was a rule of thumb linking stiffness with point weight, but I may just be wrong
thanks for your help and suggestions! I am really happy to be back on the field!