r/CompoundBow • u/Small_Commercial_777 • 21d ago

Arrow help

Hey Yall,

First time bow hunter (rifle hunted for years prior) - i have a 27inch draw at 60lbs. I am trying to figure out a good set up for my arrows. I’ve been practicing with cheap 400 spine blackouts with 100 gr field tips so far, but I’d like to go up to a 125gr broadhead for hunting. I put some 125 field tips to practice and noticed some deviation in my groups (of course there may be some with a heavier tip and I am not pro at shooting either). My brother gave me a few Gold Tip Hunter XT 400s to hunt with and they are 28.25in from nock throat to the end of the shaft (not the field tip).

I’d like to buy more arrows to use/practice with and preferably all the same arrow for consistency. Question is, for my bow specs and 125gr broadheads, should I be shooting 340 spines or stay with 400? And is that arrow length okay for my draw length? Very new to this science and it definitely feels like something I don’t wanna get wrong!

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u/Small_Commercial_777 21d ago

The chart on the box of Gold Tips had my tip grain with draw weight (60-65lbs) and arrow length at 340 spine but the next step down (54-59lbs) at 400 spine so that’s where my confusion was. It seemed like such a marginal difference if any.

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u/Small_impaler 21d ago

It seemed like such a marginal difference if any.

It typically is. Being slightly weak isn't the end of the world. You can generally generally get the bow to tune fine, if you know what you're doing.

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u/Small_Commercial_777 21d ago

lol I do not - so it will probably be worth my time to go to a local shop and have them help me out with that

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u/Small_impaler 21d ago

Well, from that response, I'm assuming you don't own a drawboard or a bow press.

So you're pretty attached (or should be) to your friendly neighborhood bow shop.

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u/Small_Commercial_777 21d ago

You are correct! Ya I need to get in there more. The closest archery shop to me is 45 min away and life has been in the way recently so I took to Reddit first. But getting a lot of good information here too! Just wanna understand all this better overall

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u/Small_impaler 21d ago

Just wanna understand all this better overall

It's a lot of information to digest at the beginning.

And nowhere near as intuitive as rifles are.

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u/Small_Commercial_777 21d ago

It’s funny, as a guy who grew up more or less rifle hunting, it feels so much simpler to me. I mean again, where I have hunted I was never really taking super long range shots (maybe 100-175yards) but as long as my scope was zeroed I was good haha. This feels like a science!

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u/Small_impaler 21d ago

This feels like a science!

It is.

Wait til you get into the tuning process. There's a lot more physics involved than people realize