Broadhead vs field point

There is only one broadhead that I have had ZERO problems with. After working for an archery outfitter for 5 years and shooting almost every imaginable setup, I finally found one I will stick with. The Magnus Stinger Buzzcut broadhead is astonishing. It is a cut on contact type broadhead that is absolutely devastating on game. I can shoot them out to 50 yards with the exact same POI as my field points, and the best part of the deal is that they have a lifetime warranty. I have sent 3 of them back and in less than a week had a new broadhead to replace the broken one. The hangup for most shooters is the shape of the broadhead. It just does not look like it can possibly fly through the air without planing, but it sure does!

Happy hunting!
-BANDIT
 
I've only had one bow in 25+ years that I could not tune to shoot broadheads and fieldpoints to the same POI. It was a Hoyt Fastflite with C-cams and I think I just never got the cams perfectly synchronized.
Bow tuning works only if your form and grip is consistent. You can make a perfectly tuned bow tear paper in any direction you want by changing your grip. High wrist, low wrist, right torque, left torque, even follow through will make the arrow leave the bow at different angles no matter how well it's tuned. I don't paper-tune, I start with a bare shaft at 10ft. How the bare shaft hits the target will tell you how the arrow is leaving the bow. When I get it to fly straight then I broadhead tune.
The concept of broadhead tuning is simple, a broadhead arrow has "wings" on both ends whereas a fieldpoint arrow has them only at the rear-end. So if the broadhead leaves the bow tail-high it will plane downward, tail-low will plane upward, tail-right will go left, and tail-left will go right. You adjust your rest and/or nocking point (or loop) accordingly.
 
I use the two to help TUNE my bow! For 25 years, all I've done was get groups of the two heads and then resight my bow. Last year, I started reading about tuning the two to fly together and decided to go ahead and do that. It took some small movements of the rest (a fall away Ripcord) to bring the two together. After that, much to my surprise both the field and BH flew and grouped significantly better and I'm talking 60-70 yards (practice shots). The groups were absolutely much more forgiving and that gave me confidence which helped me shoot better, which brought groups in even tighter.

I have 2 Vectrixs and after tuning the hunting bow, decided to repeat the process with the 3D bow. Same results. This is a bow that I shoot all the time at spots, 3D, targets, etc. Same arrows, same poundage, everything but tuning BH and FP together tightened the groups of both dramatically.

So, short answer- yes, they should fly together. And you can use them as a test to determine if the bow is tuned.

EDIT- this assumes that the arrows are similar. Obviously if you run your BH's on heavy arrows with 4" full helical fletch and your field points on light arrows with 1" straight, they're going to be different at longer distances. Expecting them to shoot the same is like expecting all your .223 loads to shoot exactly the same. In my case, I'm using identical arrows (same arrows, actually) with different tips.

 
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I shoot a Rage and Slick Tricks and have lots of money invested in both of my bows. Just because your bow is tuned correctly doesnt mean every head is going to fly like your fieldtip. Alot also depends on what type of vanes you use. I shoot Blazers vanes and while they are good they stabilize my Rage just like my fieldtips, but the Grizztricks I shoot fly alittle differnt about .5"-1" to the left of my fieldtips. Somtimes you are simply going to have to adjust your setup just alittle bit.

Now while your heads may fly alittle differnt then your fieldtips you shouldnt be seeing any major flight differences.
 
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