I'll never hear the end of this from my trad shooting wood arrow friends !
I'm shooting a new to me Morrison Shawnee, it is right up there at the upper most draw poundage that I can handle with good accuracy. I always shoot carbons since coming back to trad in 2008 and, this bow was no different. I was having a little trouble with keeping the carbons in nice tight groups (-6" ), I've had these wood arrows that someone gave me all made up sitting around for a couple of years. On a whim I tried one of them out, and wouldn't you know it, perfect flight ! To say I was besides myself :eek: would be an understatement.To top things off they have right wing feathers on them, and I happen to have r/w Grizzly's, glued them up yesterday and the broad heads fly perfect and seem to hit nice and hard.
I guess I'm going to have to get and learn to make REAL arrows now and, while I'll still be shooting carbons, I will always try wood arrows also when setting up any bow from now on.
Hard to beat a good wood arrow-
Wood is good....... :thumbsup:
If I were you I would write all the arrows specs down. Weight them and all the parts you can. Wood is from nature and she is not as consistent as man made carbon or alum.
A well tuned woodie in flight is just a thing of beauty!
I get the same satisfaction from a well cast, well tuned wooden arrow as I do from watching a trout take a dry fly and several other things in life.
M60gunner has a good idea. It is hard to replicate some things in nature. But I have shot the same arrows (65-70 lb cedar at 29.5 inches) out of almost every bow of the two or three dozen I own.
And, every year for some reason I spend a few weeks screwing around with aluminum only to come back to wood.
Gonna try shooting only wood arrows this year... Fun to build and even break, sometimes! ... :archer2: ...
I didn't find the breaking so fun.
Maineac, you don't know Mike ! Aka mcgroundstalker.
Ken, your in trouble but don't start building them or you'll really be in for it. lol enjoy.
And...now it begins.
Another guy addicted to building and shooting wood arrows....
I started reading first post and thought I had written it,I also tried some woodies last week and was very impressed being an aluminumn only shooter for quite some time .
I also was shooting one of my Morrison Shawnee recurves!!! :archer2:
Many of us here enjoy making wood arrows. It is relaxing even know it involves more work. But after you have gone through the process of making a doz. you almost know each arrow and have an idea how it will fly. Not something you get with alum or carbon. That is why a lot of guys that shoot wood go into deep depression when one is lost or broken.
I wish you well on making your own.
Ken, hard to believe your not getting tight groups with carbons. I shoot both Woodies and Carbons. I get great groups out of both but better with carbon. Wood is wood many variables. Carbon is made on a machine. What carbons were you shooting? What spine, length, and weight up front? If you shoot the proper carbon out of a well tuned bow they should fly like laser guided missiles.Also I must add shooting Trad for close to 20 years I was taught right handed shooter should shoot LH feathers. Well over the years I learned from Bill and Scott at Pequest Valley Archery it didn't matter and we proved it. I have a dozen beman center shot 500's straight fletched with 85 gn brass inserts and 145 field points or 150gn broadheads. Fly like rockets out of my 50# Widow and my 50# Wes Wallace Royal.Hope I helped.
Charlie, I seem to always be in trouble, maybe someday I'll learn :scared:
Bowmarks, maybe it has something to do with Shawnee's or, the shooters themselves :)
Bentpole, you caught me !, I'm lazy and usually try and make work what I have laying around. While most of my bows can shoot the same arrows, I guess one can't expect that to work 100% of the time. I know how to tune a bow set up and have found arrows that shoot great out of this bow, unfortunately they belong to someone else, so I have to get off my duff and order some up, and yes they were carbons.
I mostly shoot GT 1535's but I am starting to really like the heritage trad 150's better, they are a little heavier and have a thicker wall. I could easily shoot 3555's but I really like pushing the envelope on the lighter arrows with heavier tips, and being that I have a short draw ( 26+- 1\\2" ) I can play a little.
I also have right bevel grizzlies laying around and besides the GT 1535's, the only other RW arrows I have were the woodies, but its really nice to realize that the woodies are a viable choice, which I should not have known since that's what I shot as a kid when I started shooting many,many years ago.
By the way, the heratige 150's shoot perfect out of the bow but, not much better if at all than that of the wood arrows. What I have to do is weigh the two arrows, as I think the varayation has more to do with the recoil of the bow than the arrows themselves, this bow really is fast.
:thumbsup: