Your opinion on spine aligning arrows

[Beendare]

In your experience, are the "spine aligned" arrows not actually spine aligned? I've read on different forums that spine aligned arrows are often/usually not actually aligned so I'm trying to figure out if spending the $ on "spine aligned" arrows is worth it or not

Spine align is a waste of time, IMO

Best practice is to number your arrows and log your groups at longer range.

If you have an arrow that is consistently not grouping, then twist the nok or reflect if necessary.

Now, you have to be able to shoot well enough to determine if its actually the arrow.....

 

[Bump79]

Spine align is a waste of time, IMO

Best practice is to number your arrows and log your groups at longer range.

If you have an arrow that is consistently not grouping, then twist the nok or reflect if necessary.

Now, you have to be able to shoot well enough to determine if its actually the arrow.....

Seconded. I've done this multiple times now and ended up selling my spine tester. I noticed zero gain in accuracy for quite a bit of time.

If you don't have a super long draw 30"+ then you're better off just buying two .003" dozen arrows, numbering them and culling those that don't fly after a twist or two of the nock. You'll probably only cull a few anyway.

There's so many gimmicks in archery. The reality is you're the problem 95% of the time..

 

[Terrapin]

I think it was a bigger deal back when I designed the spine tester twenty years ago. Arrows back then had huge swings in spine around the diameter. Couple this with large fixed blade broadheads, and cams with significant nock travel and spine indexing paid large dividends.

Now days with far better cam designs & significantly better arrows it doesn’t seem to be as big of a deal.

I haven’t been shooting competitively for a couple years (rotator cuff), so take it with a grain of salt, but I think indexing nocks on completed arrows using a shooting machine resulted in the best outcome.


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