I love wooden arrows, however,..

monkeyball · July 28, 2014, 11:42:00 AM

Snag,
You are a genius......what percentage am I going to have to give you when I hit it big time???????

By the way,I hopped on your website,you make a beautiful arrow,great work!!!!!!!!

Good Shooting,
Craig

ddauler · July 28, 2014, 12:13:00 PM

Ha I Killed over 100 deer with wood mostly some with aluminum the last 3 deer I killed were with carbon they work great. But so does a .270! Back to wood bows and arrows for me this year. Love the smell of cedar.

59Alaskan · July 28, 2014, 12:27:00 PM

I agree you may want to verify the nock orientation is perpendicular to the grain

Tajue17 · July 28, 2014, 12:47:00 PM

those carbons take a heck of a beating on the stump course too!! but I like woods from the longbows..

I remember trying a carbon on one of my selfbows and it shot so perfect I was hunting with a back quiver full of wood arrows except the arrow on the shelf was that carbon,,,, it shot so nice I had to bring it!! not soon after I went back to the woods it just felt better on the stand with a woodie on the stirng.

dougedwards · July 28, 2014, 04:55:00 PM

Nock orientation is perpendicular to the grain of the arrow? What does that mean??

Doug

Hermon · July 28, 2014, 04:58:00 PM

Doug-Check out this thread:

http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000119

It explains it better than I can typing.

Slickhead · July 28, 2014, 07:11:00 PM

Nothing wrong with what works!
I recently bought a dozen of douglas fir shafts and finished em.
I got em tuned Sunday and getting ready for broadheads.

Bjorn · July 28, 2014, 08:00:00 PM

Shoot what gives you pleasure and don't worry about it. I just shoot wood and I love every phase of wood from selecting the shafts to bareshafting to building the arrows and shooting them.
A few years ago I made a serious attempt at carbons; spent 6 weeks wanting the project to work out. But in the end it just was not for me. To each their own.

dougedwards · July 31, 2014, 07:16:00 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by Hermon:
Doug-Check out this thread:

http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000119

It explains it better than I can typing.

Wow.....excellent information there. Thanks

Doug

joe vt · July 31, 2014, 07:41:00 AM

I love carbons. Feathers wear out but the shafts just keep going.

I spray this on them every week

slowbowjoe · July 31, 2014, 01:29:00 PM

Same experience and opinion here as Bjorn.

July 31, 2014, 02:37:00 PM

I was out last year with my carbons, I jumped a pheasant, perfect set up, I did not shoot. I cannot stand the idea of throwing away a perfectly good tapered carbon arrow. Now if my quiver would have been loaded with cedars, a couple of those would have been old ones and one of those would have on the string while I was sneaking along that switch grass. The carbons are so much heavier than my cedars that I have to pick which one gets grooved in for the season. However, as far as accuracy goes, when a wood arrow is right they are as accurate as anything else. I do not bare shaft my woods, all of my arrows are the same length, and I adjust spines by changing point weight. I do try to target 10grains per pound with my aluminum and wood arrows, so going from one to other is not a life changing event.

Rob DiStefano · July 31, 2014, 07:38:00 PM

lotsa good shaft material out there, choose wisely. i use beman bowhunter 500's and surewood doug fir.

they're all good, but when working on form i'll use only carbons, that way when i miss it was me and not the arrow.

:D

Blaino · July 31, 2014, 09:23:00 PM

A good tuned arrow is GREAT no matter if it's carbon, aluminum, wood, or grass.

They all have their place in traditional archery as far as I'm concerned.