I have spent numerous hours on coming up with the "perfect arrow ingredients" in relation to a carbon arrow. I was trying different spine arrows, different weighted inserts, adapters, broadheads, 2 & 4 blade, different size feathers, etc., etc., etc.,. You name it, I tried it most likely in hopes of finding that one ingredients that makes for a perfect arrow flight. After several years of "tinkering & figuring", i finally found that one ingredient that results in perfect arrow flight with a carbon arrow. Perfect arrow flight followed up with great penetration. What more could I want??
The weekend following Thanksgiving, my wife, while digging out the Christmas declarations came across a bundle of a dozen 11/32" Port Orford cedar shafts. I have no idea how or why they ended up packed away. I moved here to southern Iowa almost two years ago so they been in that box since then at the very least. So I took them down to my archery room where I do all my tinkering and there those cedar shafts sat where they had me scratching my head wondering. Then the weekend before Christmas I find myself doing inventory on what I have to do up a batch of woodies. Right then & there I knew it was to late. I find myself placing a order on what I need. Next thing I know, I'm sanding, dipping, sealing, cresting and fletching!! Due to Christmas I did not get a chance to send one down range. They flew absolutely "perfect"!! And I was simply stunned on how much quieter the woodies was compared to carbons. My elderly father just said, I will never figure out why you ever went to shooting those fishing rods, (carbons), to begin with? I just laughed at his unique way of putting things. And to be honest, for me, I felt that I stepped away from true traditional archery when I started shooting carbons. But that's just me. I am also saying that I will never shoot carbons again but I am saying it's a great feeling to have woodies back in my quiver again.
Thanks for reading my rant. JMG
The traditional way is not freedom of indifference but freedom of excellence of which offers an array of worthy fulfilling options.
Pleased to hear that you isolated yours.
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Welcome back! I love my woodies. Nothing like cedar and 'rolling your own'!
Nothing like wood .
To be honest, I can not remember as to why I changed in the first place?? Must have been all the woodie pictures here posted lately that drove me back! Hahaha
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Not bad for not spinning wood for a few years. Could not be happier
Nice arrows! I prefer wood above all others. For me, its just more fun.
Just posted a thread on this "too much tinkering" simple wood shafts just seem right for me and it took me awhile to come to that conclusion. Glad someone else had the same realization :thumbsup:
Them's good looking arras! Welcome back!