What Is Your Arra Recipe?

[Drew]

Whats your preferred arrow recipe?

I am shooting 20" Zombies with 110gr brass insert, 125gr Slick Trick Mag, Lumenok, and 2" Blazers with a 3 degree offset. 463gr total wt. I'm slinging these at approx 320fps out of a 355. FOC is somewhere around 22% if I recall.

[Normous]

Matrix 405
18" Zombies
170 gr NAP FOC w/aluminum front insert.
Lumenok
2" Blazer set with Arizona EZ Bolt.
400gr.
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Matrix 380
18" Zombies
100 gr Rocket 4 blade 2"x2" w/ 65 gr. brass front.
Lumenok
2" Blazer
370gr.

[Drew]

Normous, what is your aluminum insert wt? And any idea of your FOC with that combo? I've been debating cutting my 20's down to 18 but it makes my FOC worse, i hadn't thought about going to the aluminum inserts.

[nchunterkw]

20" Zombies
110 gr brass insert
100gr Slick Trick Magnum
2" Rayzr feathers, set with Arizona EZ Fletch Bolt
Plastic flat nock
405gr
315fps from my Vortex.


The Rayzrs will help you pick up some FOC if that's what you want. 1.4gr each.

[Drew]

Nchunterkw, how do those Rayzr feathers stabalize...pretty good? How do they "sound" compared to vanes? I remember from my vertical bow days the hiss from the feathers.

[amythntr]

....18" Zombie Slayers,
92g brass inserts (adjustable for indexing),
Red Lumenoks,
100g Spitfires,
415g
FOC (that means fillet of chicken right ) around 17%,
2" pink blazers and a white cock vane (set with Arizon EZ-Fletch),
Custom arra wraps by "decal guys"- "just passin thru" and John 3:16 (8.6g)

and the most important thing:
"You Must Wear War Paint Before you Enter the Field"


Anthony

[nchunterkw]

Nchunterkw, how do those Rayzr feathers stabalize...pretty good? How do they "sound" compared to vanes? I remember from my vertical bow days the hiss from the feathers.

They stabilize as well as the Blazers IMO. I've tried to hear the difference, but can't tell much. (Put a video camera on the target and shot just under it) If you go to Gateway's site they have some videos talking about their "whisper quiet" technology. The deer don't seem to notice.

Here's a link to a review
http://www.bowhunting.net/artman/publis ... hers.shtml

Youtube video of sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XypsOgMg ... r_embedded


I like feathers because they act the same in the cold or the heat and can take quite a beating and still be OK. Of course the downside is if they get wet. I use a powder from Gateway that works pretty good, but I shot my first deer this year with wet - non powdered (forgot) feathers and it flew just fine.

[xcaliber]

17" Black Eagle Zombie Slayer's 92 grain inserts, 2" Blazers, 100 grain tips. 390 total grains!

[GrassyKnoll]

I'm using 20 BEE's with 110 brass inserts and a 100 grain head with 2' Blazers and Lumenoks for a completed 437 grain arrow out of my 405..

[Michiganhunter]

Old school....20" Easton 2216 aluminum XX75, Aluminum front insert, Easton plastic flat nock, Blazers with as much helical as my Bitzenberg will put on them. For hunting I use a 100 gr Spitfire or 100 gr Wasp Jak Hammer mechanicals. Total arrow weight with 100 gr broadhead is 400 gr. Velocity from my 380 I have no Idea...but very accurate.

[Normous]

Normous, what is your aluminum insert wt?

25 grain aluminum, 30 grainers can also be found to fit the BE.

[rockyhollowhunter]

20 inch GT Laser3's, 2 inch Norway predator vanes,110 gr.brass insert,GoldTip plastic Flat nock,Wasp drone 100gr

[racking up points]

18" Zombies by Big John
-2" blazers with RH
-90 gr brass insert
-Lumenock
-100 gr Magnus Snuffer SS

Arras fly like darts out to 60y from my M380.

[galamb]

Excalibur Vixen II

20" Gold Tip Laser II's
110 grain brass insert
4" VMax vanes
Moon nocks (YES - moon nocks - no string jumping)
100 grain G5 Tekan II's (but testing others)
22.5% FOC with 394 grains total
272 fps at the (muzzle) retaining 57 ft/lbs KE @ 25 yards

Slower and Heavier = slug force = pass through = Bambi in the freezer

[JRS]

Excalibur Vixen II

20" Gold Tip Laser II's
110 grain brass insert
4" VMax vanes
Moon nocks (YES - moon nocks - no string jumping)
100 grain G5 Tekan II's (but testing others)
22.5% FOC with 394 grains total
272 fps at the (muzzle) retaining 57 ft/lbs KE @ 25 yards

Slower and Heavier = slug force = pass through = Bambi in the freezer

I'm curious about your weight of 394 grains. I have 20" GT II with aluminum inserts at both ends and Blazers. They weigh 243 grains. If I added the brass inserts and my 100 grain head Slick Trick, they come out at 453 grains. How do you keep your weight below 400?