How to Pick the Right Field Points for Arrows

It is important to pick the right arrows and field points for your arrows if you want your bow to shoot accurately every time. Field points are used on arrows when an archer is target practicing, since they pull easily out of a target, and are often used when archers are hunting small game. Field points successfully kill small game but cause less damage than a broadhead causes on impact. Broadheads are used for hunting big-game animals.

Things You'll Need

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Instructions

    • 1

      Weigh or look for the weight of your broadheads on the packaging they came in. To stay consistent in shooting, it is important to keep the weight of your field points the same as the weight of your broadheads.

    • 2

      Determine what you plan to use your field points for, either target practicing or for hunting small animals.

    • 3

      Choose a field tip with a smooth contour, in the same weight as your broadheads, for target practicing.

    • 4

      Purchase a steel point or gold tip field point, in the same weight as your broadhead, if you plan to use the field points for small-game hunting.

    • 5

      Look at your arrows and see if your inserts, the place where the field points or arrows go into, are smooth inside or if they are threaded.

    • 6

      Purchase glue-in field points if your arrows have smooth inserts. If your inserts are threaded, buy field points that screw in.