It's not too often that trad stuff is cheaper up here in the great White North, but for those of you who can get 3/8 inch dowels from Rona Hardware in Canada they make a great stumping arrow: the store clerk told me the 48" dowels (at 80c each) were probably maple so I took 15 up to the cottage, cut them to 33" because they were pretty heavily spined for my 47# Necedah (usually shoot about 30")then Gorilla glued on 11/32 target points, cut in self-nocks & used masking tape for vanes - total cost about $1.25 each.
Next step was to test them out on a stuffed bear that had fallen out of my daughter`s favour - 13/15 pretty much flatlined when shot to about a 2' target height out to 30 yards & grouped to within about 9 inches = the width if the bear plus an inch or so for the close misses.
The last test was to go where the beavers & wind make trees into stumps & get shooting - pass throughs on the soft wood older stumps 1/2 the time & about an inch penetration into newer, harder stumps...most of the time I could just get out about 30 yds from target; also after about 2 hrs not one arrow broke: a couple of side slaps & one head on off a pass through into a trunk.
I'll be getting more at this price.
(http://i1263.photobucket.com/albums/ii625/markliep/IMG_0093.jpg)
(http://i1263.photobucket.com/albums/ii625/markliep/IMG_0094.jpg)
(http://i1263.photobucket.com/albums/ii625/markliep/IMG_0095.jpg)
Good cheap fun! It doesn't get any better than that!