POI change with lumenkocks

BlackStreak

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I've noticed that when I shoot a broad head along with a Lumenock my POI is low as if I was 5 yards farther back. Broad heads with my regular knocks shoot identical with the field tips. Field tips with lumenocks are hitting dead nuts. Only when I combine the two does my poi change. Is this just my isolated problem?
 
NOPE Mine do the exact same thing I think they say lumenoks weigh aout 3-5grains more than a regular nock does, so it will change.
 
I don't see any difference inside 45 yards when only the nocks change. Past 50, there seems to be a slight difference.

My broadheads cause way more POI change than my nocks do. I do notice it when I use them both though, but I attribute more of that to the broad heads.

G5 125 Striker Magnums have a pretty large wingspan though, so drag was to be expected. With a mechanical that are designed to fly like field points, I can see how you'd notice, although my groups probably aren't tight enough to make it all that obvious.

I usually practice for (shoot at) 2" at 20, 3" at 30, 4" at 40...on out to 80 (7 pins)
Farthest on a deer is 67m...farthest on a paper plate is 90m.
 
The weight of the Lumenoks is not only add weight to the arrow (about 15 grains for "X" nocks like the Full Metal Jacket and Axis arrows use) but put it at the back end thereby reducing your Front of Center weight distribution.
 
but put it at the back end thereby reducing your Front of Center weight distribution.

That is it in a nutshell right there.

Even slight changes will effect the dynamic spine of your arrow as well, which can also throw it off a little bit. If your shooting light for poundage spined arrows it will show up more readily than if shooting a bit heavier spined one as well.

My friend and I spent a couple hundred dollars, and several months, trying out all of them in several different combinations of fletching, shafts, draw weights, and came to the conclusion that the Nockturnal effected things the least, stayed in better, and lasted longer than any of the others.

That said, I shoot several different bows with different arrows and haven't found the Nockturnals to change much if anything out to 50yds. Even with my lighter Carbon Express arrows shooting from my Drenalin at 70# they still will hit the ear plug with boring regularity if I do my part.

IF you can find some Nockturnal's or order a package, you might even contact them to see if they will send you one to test, I think you would be better off with them, and probably not see quite as much change if any with your set up.

When I say not much of a change, we shoot ear plugs which we stick into our targets, trust me when I say you see a change no matter how small,

two 3 shot groups, two bows same arrows @ 40yds,
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I thought I had this showing the lighted nocks, but this was all I got. I don't do groups very often because I end up breaking arrows, that was why we went to shooting the ear plugs. That's also why there aren't any FMJ's in those groups too. It only takes hitting one, to ruin two of them, and that gets expensive fast.
 
I agree with you. I went from using luminocks to nockturnals and was hitting pretty close to the same POI that my regular arrows do. Even better is that the nockturnals hardly ever fail to light and stay lit. Only when the nockturnal is filled with blood and the blood is not flushed out, will the nock have a tendency to fail. Guess the salinity of blood eats or corrodes the circuitry in them. I've learned to cut the too off a small needle and use the needle and syringe filled with water to flush the blood out. Just soaking it in water doesn't remove the blood. Since I've started removing the blood the blood from the inside of the nockturnal, I've never had a reused nockturnal fail to perform just like a brand new one.
 
I am not familiar with the OD at the back of the lumennocks but I know from tuning experience that even a slight degree of difference will affect broadhead flight. In effect if the diameter is larger than your previous knock you are changing knock height just a tad and with a broadhead that causes difference in hi-lo on target. You may want to try raising your rest setting just a bit to compensate for diameter difference in the knock. I see the logic in the FOC argument but that is a big change for a few grains weight difference.
 
Interesting post. I may have to try some nockturnals, I was never happy with the lumenkocks. always had trouble with them coming off or not lighting.
 
As another said you can add weight to the regular nock so they all fly the same, I added some lead shot with silicone, I tried super glue and epoxy but they rattled loose, couldn't take the shock I guess, silicone is flexible. The one time I was shooting a pig on camera with a Lumenock it didn't light even though I tested all of them before hunting. They sure look cool on long shots and at night !
 
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