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Last Wednesday, I went by Custom Archery Center in Huntsville to get some more XX75 2018’s before heading to the Indoor 3D Traditional shoot at Hoover Tactical (awesome shoot by the way) that Saturday. Talked with George, got the shafts, and headed home. My martial arts training class ran long that night and I was too tired afterward to work with the shafts until Thursday afternoon. So I got one of my old arrows to set my cutoff saw by and was ready to cut my new shafts to the correct length. However when I put the new shafts on the saw, they were already a couple of inches too short.

At first I thought George had given me some shafts that were already cut, but after looking at the end of the shaft and finding they still had pant on them, I knew they hadn’t been cut. So I call George to try to figure out what’s going on. I tell George that the new shafts are shorter than my old shafts. He then ask me how long my old shafts are and tell him 33 inches. George tells me that about 3 years ago Easton stopped making raw shafts that long. So I just shot what I had for the Hoover Tactical shoot and didn’t worry about the new shafts until after that shoot.

So Sunday I cut a little bit off the new shafts just to square the ends and fletched a few up. I wasn’t expecting much of a difference in my gaps, I mean it was just a couple of inches, right? Well, it had a HUGE effect on my gaps. So back to the drawing board to figure out my gaps.