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Creamer

Creamer

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I had something interesting happen over the weekend. When I ordered my feathers to fletch a few arrows, I picked up a pack of Bohning "standard" white nocks. The Vintages I am shooting came with like a translucent orange nock. They were ok, I just always like shooting solid white. They are more visible to me. So, I swapped the Bohning's in on my trad vane arrows and on the shafts I did up in feathers. I went out to shoot the feathered shafts and noticed my arrow flight wasn't great, which made no sense. To the naked eye, they seemed to be corkscrewing a bit. I went inside and grabbed one of the trad vane arrows...similar result. And those arrows were flying like lasers the days before. The Bohning nocks seemed a little tighter on the string, for sure, when I'd nock an arrow. So, I popped one of them off and reinstalled the Black Eagle nock, and boom...lasers again. I really didn't think the tightness of the nock would affect arrow flight like that, and that seemed to be the culprit. I went back and reinstalled the BE's in all of them, and both feathers and vanes are flying great again. So now I guess I'll have to buy a pack of BE's solid white nocks if I want solid white. :confused:
 
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Can you open the nock up slightly. I had a batch of nocks that were a little loose on the string so I heated a cup of water and dipped the nock in a few seconds to soften the plastic then squeezed them together a touch. Worked great. Would think you could do the same and open them a touch.

Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert and generally only know enough to screw something up.
 
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Nock fit can indeed make a huge difference. I’ve often changed string serving size to get the right fit for various nocks. There doesn’t seem to be a standard to follow. String material, strand counts, all variable. Seems to me the old advice of snaps on, pops off with a slight flick, is about right... albeit very vague.
 
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I’ve got about 6 dozen or so....I can send you three dozen if you can use them. PM me your address and I’ll send them out.
 
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Yep, nock fit can make a big difference... especially on an arrow coming out of a trad bow. IMO the higher exit velocity from a compound makes the difference less noticeable, or not even at all. Change nocks or try taking some sand paper to the inside of the nock to widen it a fraction. Or like Brock said, you can change the serving size... but that will of course make your other nocks fit too loose by the sounds of it.
 
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tight nocks can cause real issues, and the lighter the draw weight, the more noticeable the effect of overly tight nocks will be. I don't own a carbon arrow, so I can only speak to glue on plastic nocks. I use Bohning Classics and if I get one or several that are too tight, I just spread them open a tad. works in reverse if they won't snap onto the string. this works just fine unless your string is just plain too fat for the nocks you want to use.
 
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Sgt Fury said:
I assumed that because he was using trad arrows that he needed glue on nocks. I also have the snap in kind...different sizes though because some were for easton aluminum, some for ACC’s and some for carbon arrows. If he sends me a pic, I probably have it.
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Yep I'm using standard 5/16" press fit nocks.

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