The most durable wood shaft

[frank bullitt]

Ramin Ramin Ramin. If John at twig archery has them, order some, you won't be  disapointed!

[chrisg]

Please do the build along! I love wood arrows but am moving to carbon for competitions, I am the single wood shooter amongst my trad companions, it costs me plenty points! I am not changing for hunting though. Wood is the right thing for my hunting shafts. Sitka spruce, hex pine and douglas fir all good for me.
chrisg

[Shaun]

For small game it hard to beat 3/8 ramin dowels from the lumber yard. Fletch with feather scraps left over from cutting full length feathers. I like to use a regular blunt. Total cost per arrow under a dollar! When you miss a high squirrel or your arrow skips into a multiflora rose thicket, no big loss.

Most 3/8 ramin spines around 80# so you will need to leave them long, use a heavy blunt and/or sand them down if you shoot a lighter bow.

[SirRobin77]

Sitka spruce is tough stuff.

[smoke1953]

It's nice to choose a shaft that is native to your area. White Ash is prevalent from Iowa to the east coast and was my first choice when recently making the switch to wood. I haven't been disappointed.

[Don Stokes]

All hardwoods (yellow poplar, ash, maple, hickory, ramin, birch, etc.) are at least twice as tough as any softwood (POC, spruce, fir, pine, etc.) according to the USDA Wood Handbook, the "bible" of wood people. Of the hardwoods, yellow poplar is the lightest in weight. Ash, hickory, and ramin are much heavier. Poplar shafts give arrow weights in the 550-700 grain range most of the time.

[Red Beastmaster]

Twig Archery's hardwood Pass-Thru shafts.

[Joseph]

Maple and Hickory.

[Hattrick]

ramin wood

[Bowspirit]

My hat's in the ring for hickory...

[Roy Steele]

ASH is hard and the best for staying straight.But when I was younger I shot in hte low 70's for years.And I knew a guy back in the 80's that I built 3 bows for 83,85,86 pound bows for.And I know for a fact that we had to shot HICKORY.It could take hits over and over that I could'nt shoot  my ASH shaffs against.And he shot 10 pounds or so more than me.
 A few years earyer I built I'm a 100 and 102 pound selfbows which he hickory logs from it.But I don't think he ever stump shot with either.
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