Does anyone know what size aluminum arrow size I need to foot a Easton 500 FMJ 5MM

Thanks

doug77

Can you give us the precise OD?

I used 2020 on my wife's arrows.

FMJs are already footed;-). The entire shaft is footed.

Why on earth would you need to add a footing to an Easton FMJ?

"Why on earth would you need to add a footing to an Easton FMJ?"

Extra weight

Fortifying the end for stumping

Fine tuning

Higher FOC

Because he wants to....

Etc...

I am sure his reasons are his own and genuine.

doug77,

Find the outside diameter and check this chart.

It's solved with the nasty math thingy. ))

More fun going through large boxes of odd ball shafts. One of these days I am going to record what size shaft I used for foot on which carbon.

Bud, I wasn't really asking you, but thanks for the follow up, (and yes, those are obvious reasons). However my experience is that they don't need reinforced for stumping, unless you're shooting rocks, FOC might be accomplished better by another method, same as fine tuning. Hence the question.

A friend used them for a short time. He broke and bent enough of them he moved on to better shafts. Based on his experience with FMJs I will never buy them. One broke when it hit an empty plastic soda bottle. The arrow was tipped with a judo. The shaft broke cleanly about 8" up from the tip.

What would be a better shaft? I thought these would be some of the toughest around.

Anomalies happen every day.

He may have gotten a bad batch. He contacted Easton. They were of little help.

Use #3 broadhead adapter rings. BAR3 These are much easier to install than a footing and work as well.

because I shot at a coyote and the shaft broke . i did reinstall my inserts with JB liquid weld

ThankYou Mr Stout

doug77

My experience with FMJ are sort of limited but I will never buy them again. I had more than a couple just snap for no reason I could find. Always a clean break. I have also had the same happen with one Axis 600 shaft. Both types footed and the break was behind the footing a ways. My go to stumping arrows are footed GT Ultralites. The cheaper ones. Only one has broken. They are tougher than you would think.

In reference to the hit inserts I don't really see them as a problem. Think about what a shouldered insert does when glued with a hot melt glue.

The shoulder rest against the end of the shaft. What is the difference between the shoulder on a insert and the back end of a field point or broardhead resting against the end of the shaft.

Worst case of mushrooming I ever had was with GT traditional shafts.

None!

I use my FMJ's for hunting arrows only. Shot a nice 8 pointer and a four pointer last season. Both took the arrows to their final resting spot and they are still good to go.

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