Need Tuning Help, Please

[sgrogg]

Help.

Trying to get the Dalaa dialed in and still having problems. I'm using the SRF sight and have played with a bare shaft and have gotten it dialed in quite nicely. Arrow flight is good and I am hitting within a 6" circle every time at 20 yards. The problem is when I shoot a fletched arrow. My fletched arrows are always a foot left of the bare shafts. I know that would suggest a weak spine but I am shooting 100g points on a 29.5" AD Trad Lite (bow is 45@28 and I draw 29"). I use the same arrows out of my Horne recurve that is 51@28 and use a 145g point so I'm at a loss. I've tried rotating my nock to eliminate any interference but that hasn't helped either. The only thing I can think of that I haven't tried is changing the centershot. It's currently set as recommended (right side of the tip of the arrow just outside, left of, the string).

Any ideas? Thanks, Ogg
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[Viper1]

sg -

I'm a little confussed.

You've said:

I'm using the SRF sight and have played with a bare shaft and have gotten it dialed in quite nicely

and then:

My fletched arrows are always a foot left of the bare shafts.

If you're bareshafting at 20 yds, a little feather contact shouldn't throw you that far off.

I don't know anything about AD Trad Lite arrows, but relative shot placement is the first thing to look for with bareshafting. If the shafts are behaving weak, then try moving the centershot a bit to the left (assuming you're right-handed).

Hard to tell what's really happening over the net.

Viper1 out.

[tpoof]

sounds kinda like fletch contact! Are you using feathers? If not that could be the culprit?????

[fusiontrix]

sounds kinda like fletch contact! Are you using feathers? If not that could be the culprit?????

TP has it right. It's fletching contact. Even if you glued the arrow to a chicken's butt. There's no way all those feathers would throw your shot off THAT much. If you have adjustable *read tunable* nocks, I'd say start slowly turning them until it brings the fletched shafts over to where your bare shafts are hitting. :)

[Crowdog]

The AD Trad lites are to stiff for the Dalaa. Try using a 145 grain tip, or 150 if you've got them. Even for my little 54# Thunderhorn I had to go to 145 grains up front to soften up the spine. You don't need as stiff an arrow out of the Dalaa as you would for your Horne bows.

[sgrogg]

When I've increased point weight (all the way up to 200 grains) the arrow flight gets progreessively worse, nock end kicking left and arrows flying darn near sideways.