Why are arrows so complicated!?
I had the perfect arrows set up for my daughter. She has been using the weakest tributes (1214).
They've been the best tuned arrow she's ever used. (She got her junior master bowman with them.) They were a bit annoying as they are so weak that they get bent easily but tuned so well. Unfortunately she did what most kids do and had a growth spurt. So they became too short.
They were approx 22" and she is pulling 20.6lbs. So at that they were off the chart.
She'd got to the point where she was scared of doing a proper release in case she pulled it off the rest. So for a few weeks she has shot using some acc arrows that she had that are too stiff. She had some left over shafts from the 1214s so I have cut them as long as possible so the clicker is at the end of the clicker extension. These are now 24.25".
The new longer ones fly terribly, land at an angle, are hitting the rest and taking chunks out of the lower hen fletchings (hitting the magnet on her rest).
So I take it they are too weak now. This fits in with the chart, as she had just moved into Y2.
She has been steadily increasing in poundage. She shoots at least 500 arrows per week.
I've now got to work out what will be best to buy next. Obviously due to the lockdown I don't envisage any competitive shooting until the indoor season, so she is just shooting at home for practise. Mostly short range.
Group Y2 only has 1413 arrows which are a 2.036 spine. These should be technically the correct arrows but they may not last long and I imagine they will bend easily like the 1214s.
The Y3 and Y4 groups are a bit strange. I'm sure there is reasoning behind it but they have the following...
Y3
Inspire 1400 (1.400 spine)
75 1416 (1.684 spine)
Y4
ACG 1500 (1.5 spine)
ACC 2-00 (1.5 spine)
Inspire 1400 (1.4 spine)
75 1416 (1.684 spine)
As you can see both the Y3 ones are repeated in the y4 group.
The reason that I'm wondering about the higher up groups is that the spare arrows that she was shooting are the ACC arrows from group Y4. They are approx 23". They act a little stiff but they shoot better than the longer 1214s. They also stay straight much better than the 1214s. I also have 6 shafts that I didn't use from that set. I don't know if they are uncut but they are certainly longer perhaps 25".
So my questions are...
Why is there a 1.400 spine arrow in y3 but then the 1.500 spine arrow are in the next group? I'd have expected them to be the other way round.
Given my situation and the fact that she just needs to keep shooting at the moment, what would you do?
I could take an inch off the longer 1214s, which would bring the clicker onto the riser. This would make them right on the chart. Perhaps that would be worth a try for now?
I had the perfect arrows set up for my daughter. She has been using the weakest tributes (1214).
They've been the best tuned arrow she's ever used. (She got her junior master bowman with them.) They were a bit annoying as they are so weak that they get bent easily but tuned so well. Unfortunately she did what most kids do and had a growth spurt. So they became too short.
They were approx 22" and she is pulling 20.6lbs. So at that they were off the chart.
She'd got to the point where she was scared of doing a proper release in case she pulled it off the rest. So for a few weeks she has shot using some acc arrows that she had that are too stiff. She had some left over shafts from the 1214s so I have cut them as long as possible so the clicker is at the end of the clicker extension. These are now 24.25".
The new longer ones fly terribly, land at an angle, are hitting the rest and taking chunks out of the lower hen fletchings (hitting the magnet on her rest).
So I take it they are too weak now. This fits in with the chart, as she had just moved into Y2.
She has been steadily increasing in poundage. She shoots at least 500 arrows per week.
I've now got to work out what will be best to buy next. Obviously due to the lockdown I don't envisage any competitive shooting until the indoor season, so she is just shooting at home for practise. Mostly short range.
Group Y2 only has 1413 arrows which are a 2.036 spine. These should be technically the correct arrows but they may not last long and I imagine they will bend easily like the 1214s.
The Y3 and Y4 groups are a bit strange. I'm sure there is reasoning behind it but they have the following...
Y3
Inspire 1400 (1.400 spine)
75 1416 (1.684 spine)
Y4
ACG 1500 (1.5 spine)
ACC 2-00 (1.5 spine)
Inspire 1400 (1.4 spine)
75 1416 (1.684 spine)
As you can see both the Y3 ones are repeated in the y4 group.
The reason that I'm wondering about the higher up groups is that the spare arrows that she was shooting are the ACC arrows from group Y4. They are approx 23". They act a little stiff but they shoot better than the longer 1214s. They also stay straight much better than the 1214s. I also have 6 shafts that I didn't use from that set. I don't know if they are uncut but they are certainly longer perhaps 25".
So my questions are...
Why is there a 1.400 spine arrow in y3 but then the 1.500 spine arrow are in the next group? I'd have expected them to be the other way round.
Given my situation and the fact that she just needs to keep shooting at the moment, what would you do?
I could take an inch off the longer 1214s, which would bring the clicker onto the riser. This would make them right on the chart. Perhaps that would be worth a try for now?