Constructing The Ultimate Hunting Arrow

New season, new arrow. Come along and help me pick out a new hunting arrow to test. Let's get right into it. How's that for a thumbnail? Does that work? So glad to have you back for another episode. If it's your first time here, my name is Tim Connor. I'm an archery enthusiast and I love making videos. If you could give me a little tap, tap on the subscribe button, that would help. It means a lot to me. Road to 100,000, let's break these things out and build them up. How about those lions, by the way? That's two playoff victories and we're playing in the NFC Championship. Right now, you know the results. I would be so stoked if they're going to a Super Bowl. Career long, Lions fan, long, bumpy road. They're playing in the NFC Championship, so that's pretty awesome. These things, RIP TKO Arrows, five mil. We're not going to use the inserts. Time and battle tested. A couple things I like about them, low grain per inch. So you have a lot of flexibility with how heavy you want to make your arrow and how much FOC you want to have. They got this slick coating on them. They tend to pull out of targets easier and I think they slide through animals as well, a little easier. They're durable. I banged them up big time. I'm shooting the gamer version. That's the .006 version. I find their consistency is good and I don't think I've ever outshot my arrows. Build time. Clock them, cut them, clock them, cut them, clock them, cut them, sand them, get some inserts in them, get some veins on them. I'm going to mess around with my vein selection, by the way. We're going to do a little vein testing to see just what flies best and also what you can see best because I make a lot of YouTube videos and I want you guys to be able to see deep downtown arrow flight that I like, you like, hopefully. First, I got to cut them, get my inserts on, get a tip on, and then I can shoot them and clock them. So cut them, sand them, then clock them. They're looking good. Now we're going to do a little shopping. In the past, I ran 50 grains out front in MFJJ's titanium insert. Okay, that's the wrong door. And I'm going to drop 20 grains off the front of my arrow and I'm going to go to these 30 grainers in the front of my arrow. So that's going to lighten my arrow up 20 grains, but also give me the flexibility to put a collar over the top if I want, if I want a little more durability. And putting a collar over the top is like another 15 grains. So that would put me right back in the ballpark of where I was, but I'm going to start just right here. And just because we can today, we're going to give MFJJ a little quality check, see how he's doing. 30.2, 30.2, 30.1, good job, MFJJ. I grabbed some 125 grain field points because that's what my tip weight is. A tip weight, that sounded kind of dirty, huh? Let's give this a quick weight and see how we're doing. 125.8, 125.3, 125.6, all right there. I put these on before I glue them on because it gives me just a little more room to handle the hot melt glue. I'm going to hot melt these inserts into the arrows and all that basically requires is heating up the glue, getting a little dab on the end, shoving the insert in, pretty straightforward. I ran my last batch of arrows for the previous year and the hot melt thing worked pretty dang well until I shot it in the carpet in 10 degrees. I'm pretty sold on using hot melt with just the flexibility of allowing you to swap in, swap out inserts and stuff if you need to. Is this for me? Yeah, first we hydrate. Oh, you're a peach. And then we talk about some of the finer intricacies of this arrow building thing. Like firstly, do you believe in arrow clocking? Well, depends on what you mean by believe. Depends on what you mean by believe. You mean, does it actually happen? Oh yeah, it happens, 100%. Yes. Just a matter of how relevantly important do you think it is. Yeah, do you think it's an important step? Like I do it as a, it's something I do, but should most people do it? Honestly, I don't think it makes a really big difference, but here's the logic behind it. I agree with that, by the way. Here's the logic behind it. If your arrow is already trying to turn left, why would you try to make it turn back right? Okay, so if you're clocking left, why in the world wouldn't you just let it keep spinning that way? And you know, people will claim, like I think, I wanna say Dudley said, it doesn't make a difference down range. You see, I was like, yeah, but why force it the other direction if it's already turning that way? Why make it work harder? Why fight it? But I do know stories of really good archers shooting arrows that aren't clocked or their arrows are flexed the wrong direction and they still fly and hit where they should hit. They're just maybe fighting a little bit in the beginning or whatever. Let's say it helps you 0.5%. Is it like more work for the 0.5%? Or is it the same amount of work? It's the same amount of work. It's not that much work. It's not more work. Yeah. So just do it. So we're gonna clock my arrows and I'm gonna guess they spin left because most bows spin left. To the left, to the left. Every single arrow wants to clock to the left. But isn't there one round that clocks to the right? It's not arrows, it's strings. So it's the way it's served. If it's twisted this way, she won't spin like that when she comes out of your bow. If she twisted that away, it'll spin like that. Simple as that. It's really easy to check. It's simple easy. And we're gonna check it right now. So silver Sharpie up. Yeah. We're gonna see if it spins right or left and we're both predicting it'll go left. Kind of really think that arrow's gonna turn to the left. Oh, it spun quite a bit to the left. Like if you're that far and it already, I mean, how far was that? Like a half a turn already, almost? Yeah. From here. Why would you try to make it go the other direction if it's already going that way? Quarter turn from three feet. Quarter turn at four feet. Let's show the people. Yeah. If we're going a quarter turn at four feet, why would you try to force it the other direction when it's already going that way? Very well caffeinated, Josh Jones. Yeah. So we fletch to the left. And here's the fletchings we are going to test to see what we like. Two categories. Number one, how well can you see it on camera? Number two, how well does it fly? Third category, that's actually really important. How well does a broadhead fly? But we're gonna really test number one and two. Super savers, full size and minis. Full size and mini. There's really not that much difference in size, Josh. No, I shoot the minis, dude. If you're hunting with them, shoot the minis. Like they're super stable already. Like you don't, it's to me like the big ones like a comparable to a four inch vane. Tell us in 30 seconds or less why you like these vanes. Well, first of all, it's really freaking quiet. And that's a hard thing to quantify without actually testing it. Cause animals react to noise. And for one reason or another, I think it has something to do with the shape. This is a really quiet vane. It's also a really tall vane without being really elongated. So shot a whole bunch of different vanes into animals. And for one reason or another, when I went to this vane, I wasn't getting passers. Like my vanes were catching on the exit hole. That it seemed like it was a lot of work to go into that hole for one reason or another. Everything I've shot with this, I've gotten a full passer without problem. I don't think it's making my arrow shoot faster by any means, or if it is, it's very tangibly small. But I think it's this angle getting into the hole. So it doesn't drag as much. That height profile is beautiful for stability. Do you know, do you know what rocket builders like? Rocket ships, they have the. Steep angles. Steep angles, yeah. This is also really light. Like this is six grains, this is seven grains. So this is really on the light side. And I shot these out to 200 yards last year. You like this one. I like this one. On a four-fletch. No, I actually shoot this with a lot of helical, which it doesn't say to do that in their directions. Their directions say don't exceed three degrees. But man, I got amazing stability with more than three degrees with this. Shooting three-fletch, not four. This is what's on my indoor arrows right now because I don't care if it slows down. It is going to be more stable. Shot these with fixed blades and mechanicals, long distances on a three-fletch with a lot of helical. And they seem to shoot really good. So they have a hard time talking me out of that for 99% of stuff until something else comes along that looks better. And then I'll try that too and mess with that. But so far, these are dope. Now we build. Okay, here's our ingredient list. DCA Super Sabres, mini and regulars. Super Glue, Primer Pen, Boning Fletch Type. And the Arizona Easy Fletch True Helical. It says mini max to the left on the side. Because these arrows have the spine alignment on them, I always run the spine alignment in line here. Just load this thing up. Now, from an install perspective on these vanes, I do like, I've done a couple, and I do like that the edges on them are a little bigger. They grab glue and hold the arrow really well. So we load it up with three, run the primer pen, which just helps them stick. Hit it with a little glue. Bob Smith Maxi-Cure, cyanaculate. That's one of the fanciest words I know, actually. And then I just do like three or four dabs. Dab at the bottom, two dabs in the middle, dab at the top, run it lengthwise. Rinse, recycle, repeat. Now we have them on. Close it up, put our little cap on, and close the spring. And just make sure everything is snug. And then it only needs about 30 seconds to sit. We'll just pop that cap. They only gotta sit for about 30 seconds. Fold them back. Look how good those look. And then we'll hit them with just a little bit of Fletch-Tite. And I just run a dab on the top of all three and a dab on the bottom of all three. And that just seals them up. This is what one looks like. That's already done. Just a very clean vane and simple installation. I'm excited to shoot them and get some crispy slow-mo and see what we think. I wanna get a little aero flight analysis from you. We're gonna shoot some really crispy slow-mo and see what flight we like, as well as how they group, as well as how well can you see them. First up, Super Saver Minis. Minis are white, full size is pink. Let's send it. 85 yards. Try to break off a couple good shots too and see what our groups look like. I know that my sight tape's not quite right because we just built some new aeros and they're lighter than my last ones. So I'm cutting a few yards. Hey, Lou. Trending a little high left. All good. Let's go with these big pink ones. Full size. Definitely a little easier to see with my eyeballs. Another full size. Final full size. With my eyeballs, it looks like they're spinning pretty good. One of the things I've gotten to do a lot of through my history making videos is shoot a lot of slow-mo. And here's a few things that can affect how your aero flies. The tune of the bow. The torque of the person's hand. Parachuting, wind, particularly side wind. I think side wind and hand torque are two that I don't think a lot of people get to see often how much it does affect the wobble of the aero. I shot these aeros through paper, so I know I had a perfect bullet hole. So if they're not flying, it's probably me. Anyway, here's what these look like. Check this out. Just from observation, look at the difference in height with just a few grain difference in the aero. One grain more per, so like three, four grains. So that's likely because of the taller vane. I think it's pretty interesting stuff. I don't really know more until I get to the editing bay. So maybe I'll insert some clips. Maybe not. I'm gonna cut the video here. Subscribe to the channel. Road to 100,000. It means a lot to me. All the aero build stuff is linked down below in the description. And I'll catch you back for the next one. Do me a favor and drop a comment on which aero flight you like better. And while you're at it, slap your greasy little mitts on the subscribe button. Catch you on the next one.