According to bowhuntingmag.com there are four steps to perfect broadhead flight, quote €Going from field tips to broadheads requires arrow tuning on a higher plane. Carrying on the name of its famed predecessor, the new Razorbak 100 utilizes positive pressure to allow the broadhead to track true during flight, yet rotate slightly on penetration. The head is new for the year two thousand and two from New Archery Products (NAP). Thousands of bow hunters will suffer hours of frustration this fall, and that's before they get into the woods. I'm talking about the unfortunate souls who will have trouble making their broadheads fly true. I've seen their frustration and desperation. They'll fool with their setup for days only to find they still can't get their broadheads to group or hit where their field points do. Sadly, there's little reason for this struggle.

Yes, broadheads are more difficult to shoot accurately than field points, but making broadheads shoot well doesn't require a Ph.D. or years of experience as a bow smith. It only requires that you pay attention to certain details. €What details?€ you ask. That's what this article is about. Much can be learned about bow tuning for broadheads by observing the arrow's front-of-center balance point, making the right fletch choices and knowing how to check broadhead alignment. Follow the four steps listed here and the odds are your broadheads will group better than ever. The first thing you have to do is make sure your setup is truly tuned. Don't be fooled into thinking that your bow is in tune because you can shoot tight groups with field points.

Field points can be very forgiving, and it's possible for an out-of-tune bow to shoot one-inch groups at twenty yards with field points. (This is why mechanical broadheads tend to group better. They're much more like field points.) Most broadheads, however, aren't going to let you get away with bad tuning, especially if you have a fast bow. This is because the blades on a broadhead can act like wings and steer an arrow all over a target face. Launch an arrow poorly and the blades will catch air and drift off target right from the start. Due to space requirements, I cannot go into bow tuning here, but two great sources for tuning guidance are Larry Wise's book Tuning Your Compound Bow from Target Communications, or Easton Technical Products also has a great technical bulletin on tuning that's very easy to follow€ end quote.