Take a look at the Sirius apollos or their new target/hunting arrow the just released. I have been shooting them for a couple years now and they are awesome arrows.

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The Victory Vaps and the Easton 5mm Axis are both great shafts. What is your draw length and draw weight? Then there are other shafts that are a Pro / Competition shafts. Easton X10, Pro Comps.

 

Fgignac,
You gave your draw length, but not your weight.
Also, since this is the general archery section, I am going to ask if you are shooting recurve or compound.

 

Good point. I am shooting compound, 31.25" DL, 58lbs DW

Most likely going to end up with 340 or 300 spine depending on the length I decide to cut and the point weight I decide to use. I'm not new to arrow building. I'm just trying to wade through the offerings available that would make a good outdoor target arrow.

 

Victory VAP if you want budget set of arrows. Probably Skylon arrows will work even better if you have these in US market and have nothing against Chinese products.

Easton Procomp should be as good as Victory but probably will cost more.

When you are ready to pay top dollar - Easton Protour or Carbon Express Nano Pro are your choices, these are the best money can get you for target archery.

 

If you have a 31 inch draw you might want get smaller diameter shafts and get the arrow weight around 450 to recuse the effect of wind.

I use my 575 grain hunting arrows for target shooting in the summer and they work fine out to 70 yards.

 

There is a Canadian company that makes some great arrows... You should look up the Micro-Ventilators from Kill'n Stix!!!!

MICRO VENTILATOR | Killnstix

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There is a Canadian company that makes some great arrows... You should look up the Micro-Ventilators from Kill'n Stix!!!!

MICRO VENTILATOR | Killnstix

www.killnstix.com

Thanks for the tip

I didn't know of that company. I'll definitely look into them

 

Once again, to answer this question, we should be asking you a question.... What kind of "outdoor target" will be your primary game?

 

You're right. I mentioned that I was shooting 50m but I should have been more specific. I will mainly be shooting "FITA" style archery. I plan to dabble in 3D a little for fun. But the arrows I am looking to build would be specifically for FITA style shooting.

I would love to try field but the sad truth is that it just doesn't exist in my area.

 

I've been using Gold Tip Pierces for 3D and really like them...they are a .166 ID shaft so wind drift is minimized. They have been very accurate, no prob pounding a paper plate at 100 with consistency. i fletched them with Flex fletch shield cuts FFP187 which are just under 2", they fly like darts.

 

You gotta just go to the gold tip website and click on the pierce tours if you want the straightest or the pierce platinums, they are freaking sweet.

I got into field tournaments the year before covid so I got some pierce platinums and fletched them up, I picked the 340 spine ones because with its gpi they weigh within 2 grains of my 3d arrows so I can use the same sight tape.

For the love of god they are awesome, they are by far the best arrow I have ever shot with second to none and I only shoot with them in the week or two leading up to a field shoot because I am primarily a 3d shooter but those weeks are so awesome.

They are a micro diameter shaft so they do awesome in the wind and being a micro diameter you can shoot crazy tight groups at long distance that are so fun to see.

 

I group tune my arrows to the same hole accuracy with a hooter shooter and have been doing it for almost 10 years now and to see a micro diameter arrow actually hit the same little hole over and over is simply unreal and these arrows did it right out of the box and only two of them needed me to turn a nock to move them over to the little hole and I believe it was only about a quarter inch movement that needed to be fixed on them. Then all 12 of them would smoke the little hole.

 

Keep in mind that my first dozen were the pierce platinum shafts which are the second tier, I did get a dozen tours also but have not fletched them up yet. My platinum's are so freaking good and are holding up so strong to the beating they take I just haven't seen a need to break out the new tours.

 

Now, with your longer draw length I can see you going with a stiffer spine and they offer them. Tours go up to 250 spine so you can choose something sweet for your setup. I am running the same 120 grain points in mine that I use in my 3d arrows. My 3d arrows are gold tip x cutters with 120 grain points and they come in at 372 grains total weight. My Platinums come in with 120 grain points at 375 grains I think and again that is why I chose the 340 spine. Now my x cutters are a 250 spine so it was hard for me to choose the 340 spine but all I can tell you is that it has not been a issue at all and in fact things have worked awesome.

All I do to switch to my field arrows is go back to 70 yards and I unlock my arrow rest and I start shooting and moving the arrow rest up until I am hitting dead on, this allows me to not have to move my sight needle. I make a mark on my arrow rest where it was at for the 3d arrows so I can just go back easily. Then I usually have to do a very few windage clicks and I am dead on.

 

As far as my setup, I run razor feathers. I have used them for almost 10 years for 3d and I just love them. For nocks you have got to use the gold tip pins and the gold tip mini hd pin nocks. they are really durable and they never have weird failures for no reason, they are a very good pin nock. I do not use the little golden thing protect the rear of the arrow, can't remember the name of them right now but they will come with the arrow. I have bashed them over and over in training and competition and not had any shaft damage, just replace the pin and nock and you are up and running again. The gold tip points for these arrows are awesome and you have to get the fact weights for them to make the perfect point weight. I believe my points are 100 grain ones and I add the 20 grain weight.

 

Thanks for the recommendation @Padgett

I had seen the pierces in my preliminary research. I will put them into the "look into more seriously" pile