indexing your 1.5" cut fixed broadhead.

[gendoc]

when assembling a broadhead to your arra, make sure your blades do not contact the stirrup when fired

so paying attention to the blade(s) is critical every time you load.

and its easy to be distracted either hunting or just shooting.
or if your like me, age and remembering are at a constant battle.

example, before daylight.....your at your fav spot for that big buck.
you cock your bow and load the arra....did you notice if you indexed it correct ?

that could mean a miss along with loosing a $40 arra.......

I lost one yesterday checking my 380 with my hunting rig. xx75,125gr striker mag and ignitor nock.

it was late afternoon so I thought i'd wait till dark to find....nope it didn't happen. what I did find was a small cut on the topside of the stirrup

I know to most of us here this is common knowledge. but sometimes
sh..stuff happens. justa heads up to remember.

Hmmmmm maybe an offset stirrup will work, is there such a thing ??

[SEC-ond 2 none]

DrStirrup ! This may be just the "ticket" for brosdhead clearance. Check out the web site.

Happy Trails
Stephen

[Drew]

Gendoc, I've been playing with some large (up to 2") broadheads and specifically indexed the inserts to the cock vane so they head is always horizontal when loaded. So I fletched first then screwed the broadhead into the insert and then glued the insert into the arrow and aligned it properly. Only takes a second in the dark to ensure the correct vane is down. (I actually use the head to tell me which fletch should be down as all my vanes are the same color).

[bubba]

This is good advice for sure.. I missed a doe last year at 30 yards, using a Swhacker. At that time i had my stirrup wrapped in paracord and had the head with the blades vertical with the rail. Needless to say i missed the doe completely. Talk about a sick feeling. I have since made sure all my inserts and heads are lined up horizontal to my rail. So good point gendoc...

[galamb]

At least you only launched 1 arrow.

I lost two last year to the bean field behind my target when testing Blood Runner II's.

Not that they are fixed, but they deploy, at least momentarily upon firing (springs just aren't strong enough to take the initial "whack" of the string upon firing).

I had indexed them parallel to the cock feather (vane).

At first I thought I had just slipped a nock (partial dry fire) - it was that shot where you get excess vibration and the arrow is nowhere in sight.

It wasn't until after the second shot, that I noticed go "over" the target by about 6 feet (with the accompanying vibration) that I noticed the shiny new groove cut in the stirrup right beside the one (obviously) from the first arrow.

With only one of my three, 45 dollar a pack blades remaining, I re-indexed it perpendicular to the cock feather and it shot perhaps the best of any head I have ever tested.

But since 30 bucks worth of heads and two $10/ea carbon bolts were now "somewhere" in the couple hundred acres of soyabeans (and I looked to no avail) I relegated the last head to the "tackle box"