About to buy broad heads, whats the way to go.

[speedster]

Gday
Im very new to archery. I have bought myself a compound bow ( martin razor x 60lb), with sights and a release aid.
Im currently using satellite carbon arrows and 125grn field points.
The place where i bought the bow says not to use a 2 bladed broadhead as they are harder to tune than a three bladed broadhead, but i see alot of you guys using blackstumps and tuskers etc. Is the shop right?
I want to hunt goats and pigs eventually and i want to start practicing with the broadheads.
Next question, is it as simple as unscrewing my field point and screwing in a 2 blade broadhead. How do i ensure that the broadhead ends up sitting perfectly horizontal when placed on the bow?
any help would be greatly appreciated

[Friar Tuck]

I align my shafts by using an Arrow Squaring Device http://www.geckoarchery.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=32

I use this for all the shafts I make up for clients as well. I have used both twin blade and three head broadheads and find that although not exact the tuning of the different heads is fairly straight forward.

The biggest difference in tuning are the arrows themselves and different spines. My Black Knight lends itself to a stiffer spine shaft but you can adjust this with weight at front or back.

Antony

[jindydiver]

Outbacks by Woody or Blackstumps. Both are very good heads and are very tough, they will keep going where other heads will fail.

To align all your broad heads the same way you need to put the inserts onto the broad heads before inserting them into the arrows and put a texta mark on the insert next to one of the blades.

Then you can mark your shafts where you want the blades to line up and glue your inserts in with the two marks lined up.

[PeterM]

Outbacks by Woody or Blackstumps. Both are very good heads and are very tough, they will keep going where other heads will fail.

To align all your broad heads the same way you need to put the inserts onto the broad heads before inserting them into the arrows and put a texta mark on the insert next to one of the blades.

Then you can mark your shafts where you want the blades to line up and glue your inserts in with the two marks lined up.

Don’t want to confuse the guy but in a well tuned bow there is no need to align the broad heads, if they spin true they all should all hit the same impact point even if there on different angles.

[jindydiver]

True Peter, but sometimes it is fun to fiddle :wink: :lol:

[timbo]

I just put a small 'o'ring on the back of the broadhead screw it on and position the blades where-ever. They don't come loose and they are easy to undo when needed.

Cheers Tim

[Shano]

Woody's, Blackstumps, tuskers etc are good two blade broadheads. We sell heaps of them. As Peter said, just spin test each arrow to double check them. :)

A precision made factory 3 or 4 blade broad-head of course should spin true for the price you pay :P

At the end of the day I have put pay to heaps of game with all the above 8)

Enjoy :D

[XTfreak]

I just put 125 Thunderheads on my arrows last evening and out to 20 yrds they hit just like the field points. (My wife is my witness) I didnt have to adjust anything.
Bill

[jason's]

i dont have to adjust my bow 4 b heads and there tusker spirets

[LongReach]

The place where i bought the bow says not to use a 2 bladed broadhead as they are harder to tune than a three bladed broadhead, but i see alot of you guys using blackstumps and tuskers etc. Is the shop right?



HHmmm.........2 blades hard to tune????? Harder than a 3 blade???

Don't know about that. I find 2 blades the easiest to tune......i find they fly pretty much like my field points and need little tuning if any at all.

[Clive]

You should have no trouble with the Outbacks or the Tuskers. Both work very well. There is no requirement to align them especially if they are single beveled in the same direction as your fletchings. Therefore for an arrow that has been fletched using a right hand fletching jig only the right hand blade should be beveled. Probably would help to read some of the literature produced by Dr Ed Ashby. See the following link

http://www.tradgang.com/ashby/2005update1.pdf#search=%22ashby%20broadhead%20stud y%22