Why do you shoot wood only,

Quiets down the bow, penetrates better, and looks better IMHO. An added bonus is the conversations it strikes up with those that have no experience with them.

They fly beautifully, are quieter than aluminum or carbon and satisfying to make. I like mine simply stained, sealed and fletched but the sky is the limit for cresting dipping, spliced fletching etc..

They fly beautifully, are quieter than aluminum or carbon and satisfying to make. I like mine simply stained, sealed and fletched but the sky is the limit for cresting, dipping, spliced fletching etc..

Gonna try the wood only route this year... Just feels right... Can't explain it... I dig building 'em... Love the smell when they break... And as stated above, very quiet for hunting... Will be an interesting year to say the least.

... mike ...        ...

I'm going back to wood, just love the look and how a nice wood arrow leaves the bow in silence.

So how do you woody guys tune your woodies, bare shaft em, how ya do it....?

Quiet,and just seems right.I bare shaft

I've shot wood for 50 years, but have begun to shoot some carbons in the past few years.  Wood has a wide range of spines, so you can buy the spine you need.  May need to try a test pack, i.e., several spine steps, to get dialed in, but after that, it's just a matter of buying more of the same spine.  

I don't bare shaft.  I buy the spine I think is right for my bow, cut them to the length I want, one inch beyond the back of the bow at full draw, fletch up the arrows and shoot.  Depending on how the arrows act, I fiddle with point weight, brace height and/or nock point.  As a last resort, I might need to move up or down in spine a little.

I love to shoot wood arrows, that's all I have shot this year.  

Who wouldn't want to shoot them......

Doug Fir arrows are all I will ever need with my longbows, strong, strait, quiet and heavy. Once I started shooting them I new I would never go back.

I could never say that about POC's

Tracy

I know it was said by one of the greats that you can not make a silk purse from a pigs ear but I can make wood arrows tune better then I can make carbons tune. And there is something about crafting a wood arrow with your own hands and then flying it to the target be it living or just a bulls eye on a piece of paper. What better satisfaction can there be in archery then to craft everything that you are using?

What is the general rule that most of you have found for estimating the needed spine? 5 or 10 pounds of spine over bow weight?

Shhhhhhhhush. Don't tell my bows. All they have ever known is wood. They don't even know that any other arrow material exists. I kinda like it that way. LOL

JDunlap. I am always the weird one in the bunch, but I tend to shoot a lighter spine weight say 5# under to even money on longbows and even to 5# over out of my recurves.

Well i am thinking on getting some shafts from RMSG..and see how they do......

Thanks elkhunter45, My problem is my rer's are cut to or past center...and so shoot some stiff carbon arrows 300's and 340's -- w/ about 225 total grains on the end. I figure it will take some fairly stiff woodies.

I do. Nothing beats a beautifully decorated set of wood arrows .

I like wood for just about all the reasons already stated. I like the looks, the performance, and the nostalgia. Also, I find them fairly easy to tune. Besides, I am one of those guys who feels that a Hill bow is just supposed to shoot woodies.