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[Fullquiver]

Was out shooting today sighting in a new scope on my crossbow,(Horton EXP) and was shooting some new arrows, Horton mx series carbon arrows and noticed that out of the three I had a flier every time.  So I figured out which arrow was the problem and tried rotating the nock to no avail.  You could stand back and watch it and at 40 yards you could visibly see the arrow bucking wildly in flight.  

     Finally I dug out my old spine tester and dicovered that it tested significantly lighter in spine at all angles of rotation compared to the good flying arrows.  Also it wasn't consistant in spine from one side of the shaft to the other at most points.   I was a little bit perturbed with the quality of this shaft so I went through all I had stocked up and found one more in the same condition.  This stinks $10 worth of arrow shafts (I bought them 2 years ago.) unusable.  

    I have a chance to buy some Easton xx75 crossbow arrows (on closeout no less $3.50/arrow) and am seriously considering getting them at least I'll know that they are consistant.  What do you think, am I overreacting?

Edited by Fullquiver, 31 January 2012 - 06:25 PM.

[georgiaboy]

Buy the easton's at 3.50 an arrow ( good deal ) and hold on to them. Use up the old horton's ( two yrs old? time to let'em go! ) and when your done with them don't look back!!  

[leatherlungs]

I got some bad bone collector bolts. The inserts came out and the nocks rotated. I emailed horton and was pleasantly surprised at their response. They apologized and said they had some that didn't have the right amount of epoxy, and have since changed manufacturers. Lee offered to send me a new box of the carbon bolts free of charge. Of corse I said well if you "must"...anyway they were very apologetic and are making it right. Maybe email them and see what they can do for you.

[dropzone]

Before you go throwing them out check the insert and nock end is square with the shaft. Now that might not be the problem but it's worth a try. A quick easy way to check them is to spin test them. You can make a spin tester with 4 nails and a piece of wood scrap 2x4 will do. Hammer the nails in the wood forming an X lay the arrow on the nails and give them a spin watch for a wobble.

[Fullquiver]

dropzone, on 03 February 2012 - 01:49 PM, said:

Before you go throwing them out check the insert and nock end is square with the shaft. Now that might not be the problem but it's worth a try. A quick easy way to check them is to spin test them. You can make a spin tester with 4 nails and a piece of wood scrap 2x4 will do. Hammer the nails in the wood forming an X lay the arrow on the nails and give them a spin watch for a wobble.

They spun true, I have everything to check out arrows here as I used to have a small business making custom arrow shafts for archers as well as refletching arrows and tuning vertical bows.  I closed it up a few years ago and today only make arrows for kids in the neighborhood as well as a few close friends. These arrows were dramatically lighter in spine and very inconsistant compared to the other arrows that shot well.

I have puchased some 2219s and am going to stip the stock feathers off from them and  apply my own feathers as well as dipping and cresting them.  I used to do  a small amount of crossbow arrows out of my shop when I was running it, so I have nock adapters already for my bitz's. should be really straight forward.  I cut my aluminum shafts on a small metal lathe so as to make very accurate and true cuts.

FQ

Edited by Fullquiver, 03 February 2012 - 02:46 PM.

[Fullquiver]

georgiaboy, on 31 January 2012 - 07:59 PM, said:

Buy the easton's at 3.50 an arrow ( good deal ) and hold on to them. Use up the old horton's ( two yrs old? time to let'em go! ) and when your done with them don't look back!!  

Thats exactly what I did.  Thanks for the advice.