Building A ‘25 TAC ELK ARROW (PART 1)

Should be around 434. This is how I start my process each year. I pretty much try to narrow down an arrow. Welcome to the channel, Dan with Elk Shape. We're gonna go over my 2025 arrow build for elk. I don't know what it's gonna weigh until we're done with it and we'll look at a couple different options and then we will move into the tinkering season of selecting the right broadhead to match the front end. So first things first is I'm gonna put this lift 29.5 in the draw board with the blank shaft and see where to cut this arrow. So I want to give myself enough real estate to flex on whatever bow I'm gonna be using it. The rest came up when the stops were about an inch away from the cables. That's ideal. So our length of our cord on our MX2 is healthy. We're gonna mark with a sharpie where to cut this arrow. We have a mark and so I am taking in consideration a couple different options for building this arrows. Components. Those component offerings. One is you could probably do like a typical half out from name the brand. Let's just use Josh Jones podium. I've ran his stuff in the past. He's got like a five millimeter half out that fits you know most uh you know most five millimeter offerings. One in a 50 grain. He even has one in a 35 grain. Both made out of titanium. I like that. He's done two piece ones as well. Then Easton came out with their match grade half outs which are a 55 which is you know anodized aluminum and they are nice because it has a collar and it's got an o-ring and it fits really well. It is aluminum if that bothers you. Then they have a 75 grain offering match grade and these are sold separately so you'd have to buy them separately and that one's at 75 grains and I believe it's basically a combination of aluminum and steel. I'm not going to use either one of those. I'll show you what I did on the last aero build and what I'm changing for this aero build. I'm going to try to get this fairly on the light side and give me a lot of freedom to bump up based on broad head weight. 150, 125, 100 grain. Let's go. So the 300 spine is what I'm going to pick. I could probably bump up to 340 spine and get an even lighter GPI but I'll kind of 300's been where I feel like I'm definitely going stiff enough. Let's weigh the NOC that comes standard with it. It's a new NOC from Easton in 2025 and it weighs 8.0. Another thing with Easton is I'm not going to cut a little from this side and a little from that side assuming that in the middle of this is the most consistent. Easton's made, this is .001 so I can expect that I'm not going to have to really NOC tune although I might just to check but the wraparound spine tolerances should be very much equal throughout. I should have the most consistent aero that's why I picked match grades to save time and to have all my aeros uniform. I'm probably going to run lighted NOCs. I know I'm going to run lighted NOCs and so there's a few options here to check out. These are from Amazon made in China and I've heard that these are actually pretty decent so I'd like to test them but first I want to kind of know what is the weight that I'm going to have to go. I don't like adding weight to the back of the aero so each tab is like your four mil, five mil, probably six, six and a half so let's try the second one. Amazon special let's see what it weighs with the sleeve 18.4 and it does have a little button to turn it on and off. I do like that so we'll set that there. XNOC for this is what you need and it weighs 23.6 grains but honestly I'm kind of leaning towards these Amazon ones they're pretty cheap decent fit. I'm choosing to use the hit that comes with the match grade setup. It weighs 16 grains it's aluminum but I'm going to pair that with the number two collar so this weighs 16 grains and then the collar I believe also weighs 16 grains so let's do the math on that in a second here I just want to confirm it weighs 18 so 18 plus 16 so 34 grains versus what a lot of people do is use like maybe and I've done this in the past like the brass break off and it's 50 or 75 depending on if you break it off or not same hit insert system it's just like I don't want that weight in the hit I want the weight in the and then I can decide if I want to go up to even a 150 class broadhead so when you're gluing these in it it's good to to probably use epoxy especially if it's your first time I'm not going to do that because I'm doing so many right now and so what I'll do is just get some super glue and just get enough right on there then and you got to kind of act fast I'm gonna go in right here and then I'm just gonna turn it take a little bit of paper towel dry it off and that's literally all you have to do give it just a few seconds you should be able to even screw in and unscrew all right and then you take your collar and you don't have to glue your collar on and it's good to go like that I am gonna glue these collars in I don't plan on changing so just a little dab of glue there push it down wipe off any excess and you are set we haven't added our veins yet we know that our veins weigh six grains each so 18 grains this is a 125 fill point so let's go ahead and screw that in so before I add any weight to the back we're at 391 so if I add 18 grains that's going to be 401 409 so real close to 410 grains total arrow weight if I run a 125 point which will be the lightest I've used I've used 425 but I am trying to kind of come around right around 410 that's going to be good if I do use a lighted knock which I probably will it's going to bump the weight up oh 10 more grains so it could weigh close to 419 420. All right let's see what happens I just fletched this up so this arrow I cut carbon to carbon to the throat of the knock at 26.75 inches and my draw length is 27 and then the collar is over the top collar weighs 18 and the hidden insert weighs 16 grains and then I threw a 125 match grade fill point on there we threw three veins on the back that way I think six grains each these are the hybrid HP high profile high profiles it's the vein that I'm just sold on right now and I'm not really feel like I'm not in a tinkering mood I want a crazy offset helical six degrees with the Arizona mini max to the left and I like the way this steers a fixed broadhead so total arrow weight we were guessing 410 4091 baby that's with a 125 fill point so if we test this out with an iron will wide 150 solid should be around 434 what do we got 435 with 150 grain chunk of metal that's very sharp and can go through anything that's a pretty good elk arrow weight 435 shooting it's probably gonna be like 295 feet a second with 80 pound bow 27 inch draw that's a lot of good energy and so we'll test that I'm also interested in testing the slick trick four blade chisel tip SS it's the magnum SS stainless steel and it weighs 124 so I want to test that and this isn't a broadhead video today but this is an arrow video today and this is my elk arrow like this is what I this is where I'm working from I've built the platform and the finishing pieces will be which broadhead speed 301 301 Cayuga awesome this is how I start my process each year I pretty much try to narrow down an arrow and then work from that arrow changing components out the only thing different today is that I am 1000 going to use a lighted knock in 2025 for sure for filming I did that in Texas and I really like it but uh for now in the off season we're going to stick with ip5s separation is in the preparation what do you think of my arrow build am I am I setting myself up for success I sure hope so if you guys have any questions comments put them below make sure you're subscribed if you like hard work we'll catch on the next one up a little bit pretty flat shooting my goodness