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Originally Posted by 3blade
Re broadheads: as long as the weight is the same, you can interchange heads and test them out. The FOC change from <1/2” broadhead length is minimal. That being said, a lot of those 2 blade with bleeders style heads have planing issues and fly like wet crap when shot from a compound. I tried DRTs and they were off by lot, out of two different perfectly tuned bow/arrow setups. Slick trick mags and g5 strikers work well.
Bottom line is your broadheads should shoot with your field points to at least 60 yards with no wind. Outside of 60 broadheads may drop more from the increased drag, but left/right shouldn’t change.
Nockturnals are great but you will have to re-tune and possibly add weight up front. They definitely change your FOC
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I think what you meant to say is “As long as your bow is perfectly in tune you can interchange broadheads of the same weight and test them out.”😉
Mechanical heads tend to be much more forgiving of an out of tune bow and will often fly to the same POI as field points,hence why they are so popular.
Fixed blades are much less forgiving,and even if you can punch 40 yard bullseyes all day with field points with your out of tune bow,fixed heads will amplify any tuning issues and give newbs fits.
If one can’t get Brand X or Brand Y fixed blades to fly straight,they often blame the broadhead,get frustrated,and go back to mech heads,when it’s not the head that is at fault 99% of the time it’s your setup that is out of tune.
Lots of options out there for good quality fixed blades,personally I’ve been shooting G5 Montecs for 12-13(?)years now/3 new bow upgrades, with same hole accuracy as my field points and see no reason to change/why fix what ain’t broken?