Like the title says:d We have the 100gr brass inserts glued in, 125gr point fletched with 3 x 4" feathers. But we are dissapointed with the end weight. Now we can go and buy weight tubes but they are on the expensive side specially if you miss the target and loose the arrow. So what can we do to add weight cheaply you might ask. Well we head off to the local hardware store, I know you have to live on Mars or in England (:d ) if you dont have a Lowes or Home Depot close by. We look around the store buying a crap load of stuff we dont need till you find the garden/lawn care section and pick up some of this stuff. It's a whopping $2.80. Then we head back to the house. Once home get your arrows out and remove the nocks. Thread some of the line into the shaft and check the weight on the scale. As it turns out I want an arrow that weighs in excess of 600gr's so I will have to use 2 lenghts of cord per arrow. Cut the cord to the exact lenght of the inside of the shaft but dont push it all the way in, place the 2 ends inside the nock. Then just push the nock back in. Now here we go 620gr's Now if you want to add a lot of weight get some electrical wire you know the coated stuff and do the same thing. Now both these methods do not effect the spine of the arrow or the FOC as the weight is distributed evenly along the shaft and will bend and flex with the arrow. Total cost of the upgraded weight. $2.80 for the cord a 10 minute leisurely drive to the store 30 minutes or so browseing around the store and the drive back home.
Just for comparrason. I just done up the same 505gr arrow with just 1 lenght of electrical wire. Does anybody wanna guess how much the arrow weighed??????????????
Steve. Just feed it into the shaft till wont go no further mark at the end of the shaft pull it out some and cut. Once you get them into the nock and hard up against the insert they ain't gonna flop around.
Good stuff Russ, I do the same thing to mine! The only thing I might do different then you is bend the cord every 6 inches or so to keep it snug in the shaft!
Joe. No need to do that if you cut it the exact lenght of the inside of the shaft and push the ends up into the nock, it ain't gonna go anywhere:d Well not untill the arrow is fired then it just goes along for the ride
I'm going to use this method Russ for weight when my arrows are finished but when I bare shaft Is It alright that I don't put the cord In being you said It won't effect spine? What I'm saying Is I don't need the cord In to bare shaft correct?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOPE But I might even do up some with the Electrical cord for my next hog hunt:d I stumbled across the Electrical cord trick a few days before I went to Africa the first time, it was only then I was told they at the time had a min arrow weight and it was too late to buy new shafts. I'll post the pic of the scale here in a little bit. I think ya'll are gonna be surprised:d
Typed with my hand on my hip and wobbleing my head from side to side with attitude. WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:d
