Poet, for some reason i do seem to get a lot of cutters between the 8/9 on a 40cm targetMost ace and X10 points are slightly wider.
I'd go for the best suited arrows regardless of points, I don't get enough line cutters for it to influence my equipment.
Yes i also read that somewhere ravenCould be wrong but I didn't think you were allowed to have arrow tips wider than the shaft.
Thanks buzz, so it may even be a disadvantage using these points because they might push the line further away from the shaft.
thats what the judges are there to resolve ... well, that and being a source of free jelly babies!if your arrows aren't where you'd like them to be don't blame the point size or arrow diameter, and don't become one of the very desperate archers who will claim higher values than the arrow is actually scoring, just practice a bit more :raspberry
It's hardly 'a few mm'!! more like a fraction of a mm extra in diameter (I use them too). (before anyone jumps on us for breaking the rules!)View attachment 2990 Is it the hole made with the arrow or the arrow shaft that has to be cutting the line? Reason i ask is that i was thinking of using top hat points, but they are wider than the shafts by a few mm, so in theory the hole could be cutting the line but not the shaft?
That's not the way it works, the archers give jelly babies to the judges.....thats what the judges are there to resolve ... well, that and being a source of free jelly babies!
I never thought I would get the chance to say this, but here goes: Size really does count. It always has been and always will be the position of the shaft itself for all of the reasons mentiioned. One thought though, why are we shooting with Knitting Pins today. Do the arrows really have to have such a small diameter? There are probably some technical reasons but considering that years ago XX75 shooters tried everything to be able to shoot X7's because of their much larger dia (we used to estimate an advantage of between 5 and 25 points for a full Fita) just imagine the improvement in scores with no extra effort if we went back to shooting Barge Poles(the old nick-name for X7s) today.
IndoorsI never thought I would get the chance to say this, but here goes: Size really does count. It always has been and always will be the position of the shaft itself for all of the reasons mentiioned. One thought though, why are we shooting with Knitting Pins today. Do the arrows really have to have such a small diameter? There are probably some technical reasons but considering that years ago XX75 shooters tried everything to be able to shoot X7's because of their much larger dia (we used to estimate an advantage of between 5 and 25 points for a full Fita) just imagine the improvement in scores with no extra effort if we went back to shooting Barge Poles(the old nick-name for X7s) today.
Joe, I really don't understand that.Indoors
The reason for using thin, light carbon arrows is that for a given shot the carbon arrow will hit nearer the center than the equivalent heavy wider diameter aluminium arrows.