Alan Kettlewell
New member
Good morning,
I've recently made an easy change from short 30lb limbs to short 36lbs - these are wound out so my actual draw weight is about 33lbs. My length of draw as per AMO ie to the far side of the riser, is 26.75 inches. (25 inches to the button).
I have a set of 920 Easton ACCs - chart group T1 that were correctly measured at the shop with my previous limbs. These are deliberately cut a little long at 27.5 inches to allow for any further expansion in draw length.
With my new draw weight after the change of limbs the chart says I would need 750 ACCs - chart group T3. So, on the face of it, it looks like a trip to the local archery store to buy more arrows is on the cards.
However, I'm finding that the 920 arrows fly nice and true with my new limbs. I'm currently practising for the 252 badge at 40 yards, getting reasonable groups, 3 to 5 arrows nicely in the gold.
So my question is: Is it alright to continue using the 920 arrows? Or are there reasons not to? One thing crosses my (inexperienced) mind is that a weak arrow may damage the limbs in some way, or might the 'deviation' from using weak arrows become too much at longer distances?
The only tuning I've had to do is to wind in the plunger spring a few clicks to move the arrows over to the left as you'd expect for weaker arrows. (Right handed archer).
Grateful to hear what you think.
Cheers ... Alan
PS - Should have mentioned I'm a recurve archer.
I've recently made an easy change from short 30lb limbs to short 36lbs - these are wound out so my actual draw weight is about 33lbs. My length of draw as per AMO ie to the far side of the riser, is 26.75 inches. (25 inches to the button).
I have a set of 920 Easton ACCs - chart group T1 that were correctly measured at the shop with my previous limbs. These are deliberately cut a little long at 27.5 inches to allow for any further expansion in draw length.
With my new draw weight after the change of limbs the chart says I would need 750 ACCs - chart group T3. So, on the face of it, it looks like a trip to the local archery store to buy more arrows is on the cards.
However, I'm finding that the 920 arrows fly nice and true with my new limbs. I'm currently practising for the 252 badge at 40 yards, getting reasonable groups, 3 to 5 arrows nicely in the gold.
So my question is: Is it alright to continue using the 920 arrows? Or are there reasons not to? One thing crosses my (inexperienced) mind is that a weak arrow may damage the limbs in some way, or might the 'deviation' from using weak arrows become too much at longer distances?
The only tuning I've had to do is to wind in the plunger spring a few clicks to move the arrows over to the left as you'd expect for weaker arrows. (Right handed archer).
Grateful to hear what you think.
Cheers ... Alan
PS - Should have mentioned I'm a recurve archer.