As stated, I'm new to the tradgang site. I have come back from years of compound bow hunting to my old Martin Rebel Recurve. Things have changed, for the better I would say, with the equipment available for traditional bow hunting. Anyone have a recommendation for the better arrows to use in my Rebel? I have both Easton aluminum arrows and various carbon arrows. Are the Easton ST FMJ arrows a good choice for deer size game in my recurve?  Thanks...  

Welcome back, check out Stu Miller's arrow chart. Or just shoot the aluminium and carbons and see how they fly.

welcome!!!  There are a ton of great folks on here and tons of useful info.  Relatively new myself and it has shortened the learning curve considerably.  To help you with arrow selection the gurus on here will want to know how much weight you are pulling at your draw length and what your actual draw length is.  I have found carbons to be very durable.  Good luck and dont be afraid to ask questions.

Welcome to the campfire, cyber camp that is.  This is an awesome site for information and there are great people here.  You will not find the "stuff" that goes on, on other sites.  Hope your experience with tradgang is as great as mine has been over the years.  Again welcome....

Welcome back to real bows world!    

Welcome from Kentucky! Post your bow weight and draw length and you will get some great direction.

Welcome home.

Thanks for the quick input folks! As suggested, I will relate that my recurve is a 50# draw at 28", but I am of small stature and my draw length is 26.5" with my recurve. Obviously that makes my draw weight a few lbs. under the 50. I will try the different arrows I have in my collection and see which ones are shooting best at this time. Thanks again to all!  

Welcome from the upper left of the lower 48!         You'll learn a ton with the search feature and how-to archives.      

Hi there-Hap

Welcome!

The general rule of thumb is that you loose 3# for every inch less than the 28" of draw length.  That would mean that your 50# at 28" recurve is pulling about 39 1/2# at your 26 1/2" draw length.

Before you go shooting any of those light weight carbons you had for your compound set-up, I suggest you make sure they aren't too light for your recurve.  We don't want you to get hurt and we don't want you to hurt your bow.  I'm also betting that all of your carbons are too stiff for your recurve.  If you tell us what arrows you have - type, length, point weight, insert weight, fletching type and length, we can help determine if anything that you have would be good for starters.

Welcome from Indiana! Grab a    and enjoy camp with the rest of us.

Welcome back!

God bless,Mudd

Welcome to the fire.

Welcome, this place is awesome.

Welcome.

great place to learn here.

Welcome!  

Welcome to the 'Gang!

Welcome to the crowd, Patriot.  We'll get Stinger to recheck his math, you should be getting about 45+ from your Martin, and Martins tend to be undermarked so maybe more.  Enjoy the "campfire" and journey!

Welcome you will learn a lot from these fine folks.