Another benefit of bare shaft tuning is it really helps you concentrate on your form. Any imperfection in your form will be obvious with a bare shaft (especially through paper), but fletching can hide a lot of issues.

Troy it may be hard to see, but you are making a positive impact to myself and others. Keep up the good work!

Mate, thanks for spelling out the correct way to make accurate arrows. It makes perfect sense. Thank you. Steve R

This process has changed my life lol.. I've been building arrows now for 3 maybe 4 years.. and thanks to the fairy I have the best flying arrows to my ability.. I love to build them, I enjoy the process. I had a really bad case of target panic and now I'm finally getting over that thanks to Joel turner. So now that I know how you shoot haha and I have perfect arrow flight and my bow is turned.... it's crazy how great I'm shooting. Troy you've been a big part of that brother and I appreciate the videos.

I’m pumped up for the THP hog hunt. It has to be coming soon! Great work Troy. Thanks for the content.

There is a saying...."Each one, teach one". Troy, you have taken that saying and blown it out of the water! Keep doing BIG things!!

No doubt, I know what it takes. Took ten years off hunting, got back into it. Hunted with a crossbow and still getting the bow hunting straight. Two years of compound prep and practice after 10 years off. 10 years ago I shot my bow nearly every day and until I'm that good and proficient again I will not release another arrow at a deer. Crossbow was a great tool to get back into hunting but even with that I prepped countless hours before hunting with it. If you can't respect that hunting takes hard work and preparation you should not be hunting.

If you use lighted nocks, SIGHT IN with lighted nocks and broadheads. Even with well tuned arrow setups, broadheads can fly different than field points, sometimes several inches. I always clock broadheads (orient them the same for each arrow) to mimic the same arrow dynamics. If broadhead hits 2 inches to the left of field point, orienting them will make all of them hit very close to that, and then of course just sight in for the broadhead. I sight in for a number one arrow, and that will be the first arrow to be shot at game. Good luck on your trip.

I always enjoy your videos thanks for educating the bowhunting public. Something that I think bareshaft tuners through paper should consider is a consistent tear. I have seen friends spend hours nock tuning and going crazy. If they cannot get a consistent tear with the same arrow , I have found that it's a form issue and you will go dingy trying to figure it out. I have never seen this discussed on any of the forums and I believe it is very important to have a consistent tear before you start nock tuning. Keep up the good work. John Krieg

I just did 2 dozen arrows. One tip I learned form Dan McCarthy was to flex the arrows in a bow press put to points in each side of the shaft. find where the arrow wants to flex and which way. then put them all the same way they flex. I shot them all through paper and maybe had 3 or 4 that were off and the nock had to be touched. Saved so much time when I went to shoot them all though paper.

Just sent the email thanks and now new content. Awesome. Listen up folks, it just works. Did a little tinkering (limb driven rest anchor point was a GAME CHANGER) and my bow eats everything the Apollo test kit threw at it! Stoked for fall!

Last year I decided to compound bow hunt for the first time. After much trial and error I had a decent set-up and arrows made in the bulls eye. However my arrow fight was not straight, I kept messing around and I got it ok but not right on. Then I came across your channel and started learning about your idea and what are the critical factors of an excellent arrow and bow configuration. So after watching the arrow set-up videos using the Ranch Fairy test kit, I really wanted to try it. BUT I still hesitated until I saw the kid with the 50lb bow, who took down a deer and you called him a unicorn (which was hilarious). I shoot a 55lb youth bow due to my shoulder and a 26.75 draw. SO I really needed the FOC arrows and I broke down and bought a kit. I tested them, got really good results with the 300 spine and 200 grain tips. My hunting arrows came today and they fly so straight and hit so close to each other they looked like they were mating, not once, not twice but three times in a row. That's never happened before. SO thank you for your videos, glad I could put some gas money in your pocket, Hopefully I will have a few pictures of dead deer in the fall.

thanks for the video. I would not have thought about cleaning out the tube after cutting, before inserting insert. Amazing how much crud you got out of there!

Way back when…I used hot melt on Easton xx75s. Now I use cool flex glue and an old field point. Heat the field point while installed in the insert and you can move it around. Then dip it in cool water to set the glue. The bonus is that you can repeat the process to remove the insert later for tuning or changing inserts etc. I let the excess setup and then just peel it off with my thumbnail. Thanks for what you are doing. More people need to pay attention to arrow weight, foc and tuning vs which new bow to buy this year. Too many hunting shows showing bad form and shot placement while just hyping the latest and greatest gear nobody needs. I digress…

Love your content! As a new archer I am soaking this all up! Thank you

Very nicely done. You kept it simple, even though you're covering some very complex factors.

After bowhunting over 50 years, I have found the straightest and tightest arrow shafts I have ever shot. I purchased a dozen Arrowtech shafts from a company called Arrowtech Archery. These shafts group tighter than any shafts I have ever shot. I believe you mostly could get a free dozen from this company to test. I would really like to hear your review.

I commented several videos back about being Native American and how our ancestor’ arrows were heavy and EFOC, I just weighed one of the deer hunting flint arrow heads I got from my grandfather. He was full blooded Cree/Blackfoot. It weighs 683 gr, with a chunk missing! So I’m sure it was 700-750gr before it went through the deer! The heads made of churt are even heavier! Just thought you would find that interesting. Especially since the shafts where made from light shit. Like reed, cedar or even mullen shoots and many bows were 40-50lb draw weight. Back to basics and relearning forgotten and lost knowledge!

Don't lose your steam You've done amazing job so far

Yep it takes time but is totally worth it. I bare shaft paper tune, seems to help me, but make sure the paper is taught and frame its on is structurally sound and cant move. Drove me crazy trying to paper tune when I hung the paper on a ladder golf game. The pvc ladder golf frame would flex and give false tears in paper. Knock tunning really is black magic. Thanks Troy for all the info. Im shooting Black Eagle Carnivore’s at 655 grains total arrow weight with Kudu Contour two blade single bevel. Goes through em like butter.

Just another very good video with everything that you need to know about tuning your arrows.

You are an evil man. I tend to hyper focus on things and tinker. I have been shooting bows for close to 10 years. Hunting using a bow on and off over that 10 years. I never got this in-depth with arrow builds before. I have fletched my own arrows for almost the same length of time. But I just had the arrows cut to length, then took them home and glued them up. I started spinning them and checking for wobble before having them cut a year or so into doing my own fletching. Still not putting to much thought into it. About a year ago, one of your foc videos popped up on my feed and I started down the rabbit hole. After watching your videos on arrow building, nock tuning, insert tuning, foc, and so on. I have become hyper focused on building the best arrow I can. Now I have 2 sets of arrows. One a bit under 500 grains and one a bit over 600 grains. I am not 100% on the crazy high foc train but I see the benefit. I dont see anything wrong with having light and heavy arrows a sigh tape for each and using the best arrow for the job. Thanks for the no none sense info presented in an upbeat manor and for the loss of my sanity.

If you’re the type of archer nerding out on arrow building then do yourself a huge favor and get the RAM arrow tool. Besides doing spine indexing, you can check the ends and not have to rely on your calibrated eye by spinning. Pro tip: if after cutting you find you still have a straighter end, that end gets the nock.

Thanks for this video Troy! Just ordered 6 apollos and 150 tuffhead evolutions to walk through this process myself. I did the “easy button” last summer. I had complete pass through on each deer I killed last fall using nearly the same setup as I’m trying this year. The tuffhead evolutions are awesome!

I did this on both sets of arrows from Sirius. It is AMAZING

Just in time to remind me to do it right.... Thinking probably should recheck the ones I was using last year since I didn't do the complete process. Love the channel, so happy you are doing these.

Getting perfect arrow flight takes time, but not as much as trying to find a critter that you hit poorly because your arrows sucked. I do pretty much what you do except for the arrow spinner thingy. I don't have one so I still do the stand them on a broadhead and give them a spin deal. Same result. It is amazing to watch a perfectly tuned arrow zip through a deer. Ashby's work was directed toward arrow penetration, as you know. Perfect flight plays a HUGE role in achieving maximum penetration. When you are old and have arthritic shoulders like me, you need all the help you can get. Low bow poundage doesn't have to equal low penetration. Listen to the Fairy. He will help you get it done!

When I was younger in my teens I was shooting a bear recurve with wooden arrows with glued on broadheads all store bought so I'm getting ready to buy the stuff I need to make my own arrows. The info you give us makes sense if ya don't do the work you won't know the difference

Dude you put it the best information. Just do what you do and let them haters chatter.

The shirt is awesome

Thank you for the thoughtful content and encouraging others to put in the necessary time to produce accurate hunting arrows. I tend to conduct my broadhead shooting later in the season after my muscles and form comes into peak level. Good luck on your hunt.

@troyfowler aka ranch fairy. I just ordered a test kit of yours the apollos and I’m excited. However, the pro shop here when I mention bare shaft tuning they acted like I was a fool and perhaps I am but… they said when I tried to explain your method that it wasn’t just paper it’s mostly but I told them about the hard foam and they said it’ll never tell you accurately because it’ll go in the path of least resistance in the foam layers etc… they stated with my draw length right around 27 1/4” at 60 pounds on my phase 4 a 400 spine with 100 grain field tip is all she wrote period!!! I hate how many biased opinions there are because the science and method behind what you do sounds like it’s a logical method. I’m new this year to archery so sadly I don’t know enough to weed out all the hype marketing statements and rebuttals. Lb Troy doesn’t read this and someone who knows enough on Troys logic could answr why they have a come back for everything!!! Maybe they are in target arrow mode but even then I’d want a bare shaft perfect arrows before fletching 🤦‍♂️ idk mam any light shed I’d really appreciate it hooooaaa sappers lead the way

Great work here, don't stop!

Definitely a great reminder for us all. I really need to and want to build my own arrows this year after using factory for so long. My cousin who has the same draw length as I do let me borrow a couple different arrows that he built. I pretty much was stacking them on each other at the 3 o clock position right on the edge of the bullseye 🎯 vs my factory arrows which had more spread. Needless to say I was impressed. Side note I caught my first shark 🦈 last month in SC with my Marine officer brother. Caught a 3 ft bonnet head on a chunk of squid 🦑. He made pretty tasty 😋 shark 🦈 tacos 🌮

Great Stuff man!! I love seeing a notification from RF cause I know it will be worth watching and soaking up the knowledge

I appreciate all the info and knowledge you share with us. Sincerely, SPONGE

Tip: if your eyesight isn't great and you want to know if the insert is straight before It sets, just put the pointy end of the broadhead against your finger (lightly touching) when you spin it - you'll feel even a minute imbalance.

Good vid Ranch.

I watch all these other arrow tuning videos and guys are doing all sorts of adjustments to make their bare shaft group with their fletched shaft through paper and on target and then other guys are cutting arrows down bit by bit and adding point weight and all sorts of complicated stuff. I really am glad I found your videos because it seems like your simplified process is getting the same results as the other guys who are doing all sorts of crazy stuff that seems overly complicated to me.

I take a lot of what you say and add it to what I do building Arrows, and it has helped me tremendously, thank you ... 😎🏹🦌

Awesome as always troy. My setups still dialed as ever. Changed accuracy for me!

I’m 2 years into building adult arrows. Lots of head aches really. $89 broadhead 3 packs and then finding out they just won’t fly….. I believe for us hunter on a budget, this is the most important information. Building Pefect arrow flight with out the big cost of broad heads. I’m going to shot the magnus bee stinger 150grain.

This is the same process I follow, it simply works!!

Cant wait to see the colab with thp. You should have dan infalt come down too. Thanks for the content troy i love learning stuff from you

Love the chanel great info I struggled a bit when first did bow wasn't right I'm new to archery it was difficult but now I got it all dialed in my next set be a lot easier I'm thinking cause now I know a lot of trial and error first time doing this

Thanks man for the info ill be getting the arrow test kit soon I am sure I'll have questions for you thanks

That visor is nice😎

My uncle makes those Custom Corky Lures. Lol

😂at 20 minutes “Don’t complain about the results you didn’t get from the work you didn’t do” some cruel yet realistic MUSIC TEACHER had lunch with a couple of Archery 🏹 instructors and came up with a catchy way to say YOU SUCK! You can’t play the tunes for your next gig and you will miss your shot on your next hunt!😂😂😂😂😂 ❤So true!🏹🦌🏹🎸🎼🎹🎷🎸😅😅😅

hey i recognize that s cut in the scapula!!! haha. yeah buddy!!! 2 holes are better then 1!!

You forgot to comment on tapered shafts noting you can't cut either end. Alaskan Archery sells tapered shafts, which aid in FOC & penetration, as per Dr. Ed...

I know you said no but I can't resist leaving this stupid comment lol,great videos for the kids

Good stuff I just started to fletch myself own arrows. But I built some the lazy way. I would like to put those to the side and do the inset and nock tunes bare shaft shoot thing and see if they shoot better than that batch that I just threw together. Good stuff 👍🏻

i hate when my target moves around while im bare-shafting....giggity

First year I went through the entire process and I'm never looking back. Group sizes are a fraction of what I use to shoot. I don't even shoot for groups anymore because I am constantly wrecking my vanes.

Good stuff!

One good thing about shooting 26" arrows is i can cut 2" off the back and the rest off the front and get them perfectly straight and all lables facing same direction lol Sorry im kinda ocd when it comes to this, and why i stoped buying easton axis match grades out of 24 only 2 or maybe 3 i was able to take the wobble out completely. Were i can buy almost any other arrow brand even if there .006 straightness i can get the wobble out completely (to the human eye), and thw weights were all over the place. From here on out its sirius and victory arrows only for me. I dont have an issue with the other non easton brands but these are the 2 i prefer personally and havent had any issues with at all so why switch.

Ok I figured out how to spent more time building shafts. Instead of spinning broadhead and watching for wobble,find someone with a lathe. Make a true shouldered pin to screw into the insert. Make a bracket off you arrow spinner to hold a dial indicator. Then you can measure true run out.

Who cares where the label is unless your arrow is straight and flying spot on that’s all that matters

You talk as if tuning the arrows takes a lot of time. Man, if a hunter won't take an hour or so to tune an arrow, then I question their ability to actually hunt because we all know that patience is one of the key factors of success (unless you're Rut Daniels, but he don't like waitin') 😂 Thanks for spreading the dust, Troy. 🧚‍♂️

I can't even fathom shooting arrows that I don't build. Just watching them fletch arrows up at the local shop.... Cut, inserts in, fletch, done. Nope, not for me. I'll buy arrows there, but I won't even let them cut them lol. And if I'm in a pinch, I'll buy the ready made ones that are way too long and I'll cut them to my length and I'll strip the fletches off.

B12 chem tool will fix that label issue real quick..

I am in this process now. Wanting to pull my hair out 😂.

Great videos fine sir. New and learning alot. Where are Apollo arrows manufacturing facilities? I'm wanting American made stuff. Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication to the bowhunting and betterment of humanity. Have a great big ole fun sunshiny God blessed day. Thank you

I work my ass off gettin perfect arrow flight for my hunting arrows, and I also go bow fishing with a 1600 grain arrow that doesn't always behave lmao. 2 different worlds

Epoxy and most glue create gases when they cure. Hes absolutely right about the insert pushing out. I coated hundreds of thousands of square feet in all of our food processing facilities over the country for 7 years with epoxy and uethane mortars i have seen gigantic rooms fog out from epoxy curing, probably why i can't have another kid but thats stories for another day ha. But yes epoxy will gas while curing

You still using feathers for fletching? What’s your thoughts on helical? Or the natural rotation of the arrow 😂, I’ve seen other videos pertaining to this. I’m a lefty….so goofy at birth. Just wondering if it’s hogwash or maybe something to it? Hope your hunt is successful, the blood trail is short, and the ice box fills up!

I wish there was a way to index broadheads, but there ain't. I do get lucky sometimes though

Should I nock tune with tradstars for selfbow recurve

What's the rule on practicing in extreme temperatures?? Is it okay for me to shoot and practice at 115 degrees and I'm not asking if it's ok for me...... Is it ok for my bow?

#1 assumption going into bareshaft tuning is that archer has developed good form and repeatable shot sequence. Lacking those 2 boxes being checked, bareshaft tuning is frustrating.

Three hours tuning arrows....how much time is saved blood trailing by hitting where you're aiming?

Are they dollar store, buy them by the three pack “readers”? I think I have it 10 pairs laying around the house. LOL

Where'd you find that "Live, Laugh, Love" t-shirt? I need one.

I honestly can’t understand why people would/will /are so ignorant or lazy to not make the very best arrow they can. It’s plain ass stupid not to do that. Hunters????lol, spend many many $ on everything related to be ready to shoot that one great arrow but in reality are they 100% confident in the arrow ? Building a perfect arrow is like handloading your rifle ammo to achieve the best performance for that rifle.

Have you experimented with indexing 2 blade , single bevel broad heads ?

Hey Troy, just got some orions for myself and did some nock tuning, surprising I aligned all the nocks with the 250 spine label on the shaft and all shot as perfect as I could expect maybe at most 1 degree off center, was this a fluke or is this a spine alignment mark? Any thought? Thanks!

If it bugs me that much I rub the label off with acetone.

10:43; doesn't the inserts have a small hole in the bottom of them to prevent this?

On your sharpening video you fine polish them so there are no ruff spots to catch and build up meat on blade. What’s the logic behind the broad head you are using in this video. They have big notches on both sides. Thanks

Thought maybe y’all would use a candle 🕯 or alcohol burner 🔥 and Hot Melt to install your inserts.

Taking in all the info🤙 I'm going traditional recurve and longbow and assuming everything is the same when it comes to making and adult arrows and tuning them. Would you recommend just going straight to the 2 BLADE single bevel broad heads? Appreciate the advice 🤙

Maybe I should get ready 🤔...? Nah I'm just going to keep fishing

will that be the same for crassbow bouts

Do you ever worry about broadhead orientation when it’s tight on the arrow? I remember back in the day people lined up 3 blade broadheads with fletchings.

Thanks for the video. It is super helpful! I am new to building my own arrows. The hardest thing that I am struggling with is knowing what weight of inserts and tips to use with my arrows. I am shooting a 250 spine 30" draw at 70 lbs. Any suggestions?

Loved you need better friends!

Love the videos. Very helpful. The only trouble I have with building and then bare shaft tuning is nock high 25-30 degree results no matter what I do… I shoot apollo 250 Spine, 100 insert, 250 broadhead, biscuit rest. I’ve changed draw weight in all directions. Any suggestions.

What does it mean when my arrows do a little spiral thru the air? Is it a nock issue or the drop away rest needing adjustment? Pulled the bow out and started shooting it again to start preparing for fall and my arrows were a bit spirally lol.

Ok, maybe a silly question. But, when it comes to broad heads, what kind of target keeps adult arrows from blowing through the target and still be able to get good info for bh tuning? Thanks

Would the Orion meet the Ashby structural integrity?

Troy, do you think nock tuning is aligning the spine?

🤣 Live Laugh Love 💕

Hey Troy, what roadhead would tou recommend using with a crossbow? I bought my lady one and want her to have the best possible chance of success. If it helps her new crossbow is a Bear Intense. Thanks for any advice you can give.

What’s your opinion/thoughts on the zinger 2.0 fletchings?

is there a certain way you fletch them?

When I go to order when I'm selecting the inserts I want 100 grain inserts, but the it only let's me select 75-100 grain. may be a stupid question but I'm fairly new to this so bare with me.

OCLD - Obsessive compulsive label disorder

I mean, if the label really bothers you that much, get some acetone dummy 😂 it’ll come right off

Thoughts on hot melt?