Arrow Wt.

[mobowhunter]

I guess I'm starting to get a little more serious about my shooting/Hunting. I have never really known how much my hunting arrow set up weighed, so yesterday I went by Bass Pro and picked up a US Bowhunting Scale. Wow, I never knew how much difference in weigh my arrows were. My hunting arrows after a little work, got 6 that were 412 gr. These are Bass Pro Carbon Supreme Lite weight forward arrows with 100 gr. Slick Trick heads. But I have several other arrows I practice with and they are all over the place. With 100 gr. field points, anywhere from 395 - 457. I have 4 picked out that are 308 and 309 gr. My question is at what point will you see a difference in where arrows impact say at 30 yds? 10gr.? More, less? This is my set up. 28" draw, @ 412 gr. 63# my bow is shooting 265 fps. I know from the charts 10 gr. makes 4-5 fps difference in speed. But is the point of impact much different?

[BT]

Feb 12, 2011 8:52:16 GMT -5 mobowhunter said:

I guess I'm starting to get a little more serious about my shooting/Hunting. I have never really known how much my hunting arrow set up weighed, so yesterday I went by Bass Pro and picked up a US Bowhunting Scale. Wow, I never knew how much difference in weigh my arrows were. My hunting arrows after a little work, got 6 that were 412 gr. These are Bass Pro Carbon Supreme Lite weight forward arrows with 100 gr. Slick Trick heads. But I have several other arrows I practice with and they are all over the place. With 100 gr. field points, anywhere from 395 - 457. I have 4 picked out that are 308 and 309 gr. My question is at what point will you see a difference in where arrows impact say at 30 yds? 10gr.? More, less? This is my set up. 28" draw, @ 412 gr. 63# my bow is shooting 265 fps. I know from the charts 10 gr. makes 4-5 fps difference in speed. But is the point of impact much different?

Yes but to what degree is based on where the weight is coming from. Added weight in the front will surely effect trajectory more than weight in the rear of the shaft.
Weight that is spread evenly across the length of the shaft will lose trajectory but not as much as the same added weight when it is added to the front and more than that same weight at the rear.