Last summer, they seemed off.
I just checked them yesterday. They are hitting about 12" away from my normal heads at 20 yards.
Now for the interesting part... I am using 125 grain bullheads on the Victory V1 arrow that Magnus supplies. The arrow has 4 feathers (2 orange and 2 brown). When I shoot with the orange feathers up, I hit about 12 inches high. When I shoot with the brown feathers up, I hit about 12 inches low.
Any ideas?
I'm wondering if my drop-away rest isn't dropping away completely and hitting the feathers...
^^Scoot X2.
yes. I had great flight in the past. Now, my blades are all bent backwards. Mike said that would definitely cause erratic flight.
I ordered new blades and expect that to resolve my issue...
Bull heads will tell you if your bow is tuned!! its a great test.
I would paper tune mine bare shaft and get OK flight - even though i was shooting bullet holes through paper.
i then walk back tuned with a bare shaft out to 20 yards. once my bare shaft arrows are flying with my fletched arrows - then i can get the bull heads to fly great even at long distance.
You will want to shoot into a foam target - because you want to see that bare shaft hitting perfectly into the target - with no tail wag at all. once you can do this at 15-20 yards with bare shafts i promise you that your bow is tuned! and your bull heads will fly perfect!
also watch your form - your grip is of utmost importance when you have an extra long shaft and the biggest broadhead known to man on the front! i actually cut the end of my shaft on my bull head arrows about 2" and resquare the ends.
Check your ferrule where the blades attach. If you have damaged the ferulle the blade could still be swooped back. I know my daughter has had a few do that from shooting them into the ground or surfaces they shouldn't be shot into. :)
I mark all my newly made or refreshed arrows for groups and shoot them out to 40 yards to see if there's any difference in POI. Any arrow that consistently deviates from the group, even slightly, becomes noticeable if it's numbered and note is taken after each practice round.
I have only had one bad nock in my years of doing this, but it did show me that it was possible for a nock to be the cause of the consistent miss with an arrow that was otherwise perfect in every detail. I had inspected every detail of the arrow that consistently hit a couple inches left and low, and finally switched nocks with another numbered arrow in the quiver. Next round the arrow that had been missing hit with the group and the one with the nock that had been in it was left a couple inches and low.
I looked that nock over very carefully and could find no visible clue, and even disected it dissected it to see if I could find any air pockets or tiny cracks. Nothing showed up. It must have been soft on one side when made but the reason is still a mystery.
That nock was an Easton, and I have used others occasionally, but still shoot Eastons today and have never found another that needed to be culled, so I wouldn't hold that failure against them. But your result sure matched mine in terms of "steering" the POI around the target by rotating the nock. I also did that with the bad nock before dissecting it, placing it back in the arrow the opposite way from normal, and the impact point became right a couple inches and just high, 180 degrees from the original miss.