Don't ask me why I'm proposing this question. Guess I'm just feeling a little...philosophical..

I want to know; what's your favorite arrow. Now, I know that this site probably has enough "most durable", "most economic", "easiest to tune", and so on threads to provide the ever-inquiring mind with a wealth of information. I just wanna know what your favorite is. What arrow has given you the most joy? Has been carried along with you through targets, 3d's, stump shoots, and countless hunts? Everyone has a special set of arrows that carry plenty of fond memories with them. What's yours? I'm sure theres plenty of good tales out there...

Chris, I like philosophical...I'll play.

As much as it will pain George Stout to read this, my favorite arrow is a carbon: the sadly discontinued Beman MFX Max-4 in 340 spine, specifically this shaft, not others "like" it. Ridiculously tough, heavy (11.2 gr/in), looks good (yes, I like the looks of camo), thin (great penetration). Many good memories made with this arrow in my quiver. I've only got 3 doz shafts left and will be dragged kicking and screaming to whatever I find as it's poor replacement.

My second choice bears mentioning because prior to the Beman it was my favorite: the (again) discontinued Carbon Express Terminator Hunter in 55/70 spine. Ridiculously tough, heavy (12 gr/in), looks good. Notice a pattern? Lots of good memories with this one too. Got a dozen or so of these with arrows made up that I take now and then.

Wish I could wax nostalgic over cedar as I love their smell...but normally I smelled that smell a lot, because they broke all the time. Nothing but bad memories there.

ive been primarily a longbow shooter for many yrs , particularly self bows so ive been shooting nothing but cedars.just recently ive been shooting a bear recurve,i ran out of cedars so batman introduced me to some carbons. i was impressed with them. i just went back to shooting a selfbow again.batman let me try some arrows he made from douglas fir, wow i like these. they hit like hammers. they really impact the target hard. i cant wait till this fall ,when hunting season kicks in again. im also learning how to make my own arrows now, out of douglas fir. i wish i had interest in making my own yrs ago

My favourites are the Carbon Express Heritage 350s, with 100 grain brass insert and 200 grain broadheads, for a total weight of 704 grains, that I shot out of my BW PLX; and the Douglas fir arrows, 105# in spine, wearing 160 grain STOS broadheads, for a total weight of 775 grains, that Joe Lorenzen made to go out of my Silvertip.

It's not that these are the best arrows for every bow set-up, it's just that I have had some great adventures with them and made some memories. As Bowspirit alluded to, it is more of a sentimental thing.

some fool gave me some AWESOME four fletched carbons that i fell in love with. carry them all the time!

My favorites are Tapered Cedars made by Paul Jalon.  I have a few dozen of these arrows in spine weights to match my different bows.  These arrows are always with me in the woods when I am hunting.  I love the looks of wood arrows and there is just something about how they fly that I love.

tapered cedars shoot best out of my bows

One laying on the forest floor covered in blood.

My all time favorite is not available any more.The Cabelas SSTs were the best hunting arrows I have ever run across for stickbows.

Thru most of my archery career, starting with the compound and even during my transition to traditional archery 15 years ago, I've shot more Easton 2117's than anything else. I still shoot them in one of my bows but I'm slowly phasing them out in favor of carbon.

I shoot cedars,, love them,, tried many others, but cedars just feel and fly great coming out of my longbow,,,,,,,,

glen

Aluminum arrows for me. Since Easton did away with my favorite 2115 size in hard anodized Super Slam camo, I've been forced to settle for Easton Camo Hunters in 2114 and 2018 sizes.

I was going thru a box of old arrows and found some barrel taperd ramin shafts. Flecht them up they were shooting like guided missles I could not miss. It was amazing. Now I have to remember where I got them.

ASH or Birch shafts...Yes, they are woodies

I'm partial to the Arrow Dynamics Trad Lites, because I can shoot them through a wide variety of recurves and longbows from 45# to 65#, with a wide range of front-end weights from 225gr to 300gr.  I like carbon for the consistency;  I know that a dozen AD shafts are going to weigh and spine the same.  The same cannot be said of wood shafts...

That being said, I cannot bring myself to shoot anything other than wood shafts through all-wood bows....just seems "right"....

The Beman MFX 400's have been a great shaft for me.  I weight them with a 100 grain brass insert and 200 grain point.  Couldn't be happier with how they've performed for me.

I shoot wood arrows again , I have buckets of alum. and carbons still in boxes, but Im going back to wood , probaly for good. Mark ...I love a nice crown and crested arrow. Its The Real Thing!         Marco#78....the history ,the sounds and the smells of leather,  cedars, colors in the wood,its what I like about traditional Bowhunting. ya ever just watch the flight of a arrow...

I've been shooting port orford cedars of my own making, sometimes tapered, sometimes footed, for nearly 50 years out of my longbows and sometimes recurves.  Killed a lot of critters with them.  They do everything I ask of them.  Probably won't change.

I have two big nails over my work bench where I keep my favorite arrows. Most are bent or broken. Most have dried blood, hair and a few only mud. I take a paint pen and record the demise of each. My favorite one says "Pickwick 11/25/97 10pt". That small stack of "old arrows" definately are my favorite. I still walk by that tree at Pickwick where my stand once hung and the deed was done. There is a bird feeder hanging from it now and I just wave at the people sitting on the deck sipping tea under the shade it provides. That, I think, was my favorite tree.

Easton Axis.........