Kirk,


those tonkin cane shafts sounds interesting! Pse let us know what your findings are!
I shooth Sitka Spruce and I am impressed with those too!

I like the look of a matched set of painted up woodies....
   Butt...For years now I shoot only Legacy 2016.
   Like Charlie said in a previous post, they are the same no matter when ya buy them....
   Fletch them, cut them to length and add the 125 to the front....Good to go.

Wood is good! Been building my own for about 25 years. Besides, douglas fir is a renewable resource.

Those are really sharp, TK.   :eek:    I love the copper dyed barrs.  

Well i bare shafted some today and will be fletching up a half dozen this evening..... These things snap back in recovery like a carbon shaft. I was impressed.     I think I'm going to like these.

We'll see how they take a good thrashing shooting stumps tomorrow. I'll take my camera with me.  Kirk

great looking arra's treekiller.  

wood for me, they are stout quiet and just feel right. I have shot several different kinds of shafts and some were just more consistent, wood just felt like the right thing for me.  When they are all dressed up they sure are pretty !

QuoteOriginally posted by Fletcher:
Those are really sharp, TK.    :eek:     I love the copper dyed barrs.      

Thanks Rick and Alvey!  

Been dying quite a few barred primaries recently...just getting ready to dye some green for a new set I'm building.

BTW...the four arrows on the left were fletched with wild goose for hunting in wet Northwest weather.

I like all arrow types myself... They all have their place in archery and/or hunting. Just something about deer hunting with wood, feels right to me... The thought of a close in shot and a broken arrow with blood on it gets my heart pounding.

... mike ...

As PO'd as I am with myself for breaking 2 of my woodies in as many days, and all the repairs I needed to make on the remaining ones, I'm still sticking with them....

I shot and made my own wood arrows for years, then shot aluminum 2317's for a few more years because they were the only thing I could get to fly decent out of my heavy weight recurve (those were before carbons came on the market) and then last year I made, shot and hunted with a dozen carbons.  I like the consistency of the carbons, but something was missing.  Maybe I'm just getting sentimental in my old age, but wood arrows and longbows just go hand in hand.  So tomorrow I'm ordering two dozen Douglas Fir shafts from either Hildebrand or Surewood.

Oh, one reason I switched to carbons is because I thought they would last me longer than a dozen woodies.  I stump shoot a lot so out of a dozen woodies, I usually break or lose about half of them in a season of hard abuse.  Last year, I did all my stump shooting with the carbons.  At the end of the season, I only had 6 left.  Go figure.

IF a person can match a set of wood they will be the best.
VERY hard to match them up now days.