Whitetail Arrow Build Guide (FOC, Speed & Momentum)

Now it's that time of year, guys.

Some guys are going to be hunting early season.

Some people are going to be waiting a little later to get into the season and really start bow hunting, specifically whitetails.

And, you know, everyone's kind of got a different approach on building an arrow, what a good arrow looks like.

But this is kind of what I've seen, kind of my approach over the years, things that have worked for me, things I've taken away from the arrow ballistic study and that I'm applying to future builds.

So we know building the best whitetail arrow isn't getting the fastest arrow you can.

It's not about building the heaviest arrow.

It's neither of those things, right? It's somewhere between those two extremes.

The arrow that I actually want to hunt with and I want to use.

So when we look at this, the guy that's shooting 60 pounds at a shorter draw length probably shouldn't be shooting the exact same arrow as somebody who's shooting 75 pounds at 30 inches of draw length just because they're both hunting the same species, right? Whitetail.

So as kind of a guideline for this, what I've seen or what we've seen here at the shop that really works well, where people typically end up is for when we're talking a dedicated whitetail arrow, it's somewhere between 450 to 550 grains, which naturally puts you somewhere between that 13 and 18% FOC.

And that's with a good durable shaft.

strong components and probably one of the most important factors in deciding on building an arrow and things you need to consider is making sure you're utilizing the correct spine whenever we build around these right so i don't want you to hear 450 to 550 grains and decide you automatically need a 500 grain arrow that's not what this is about right we got to build it relative to you Your bow, your draw length, your draw weight.

There's a handful of different variables and factors that we've got to consider when it comes to building these.

So we're not building it solely based off of one specific number.

This is just a range that I like to end up based off the individual.

So...