Because the spine of the arrow was of the proper stiffness
and speed of recovery, the arrow in Fig. 21 negotiated all thecontortions of passing the bow and performed properly. Hadthe spine been too stiff and too quick, the nock of the arrowwould have slapped the bow handle (Fig. 21-V-C). On theother hand, if the spine had been too soft and the recoverytoo slow, the arrow would have been deflected to the right.
The weight of an arrow is not so important provided thatall the arrows in a set weigh the same. It is desirable to havethe arrows as light as possible. Neither does it greatly matterwhere an arrow balances provided they all balance at thesame point.