Hex Shafts

[Scott E]

Any one ever use these? They seem pretty good and the price isn't half bad. If you have used them what did you think?-Scott  

[BaldingEagle]

I am also interested in learning more about these shafts.

[laddy]

I used the pine hex shafts, they needed alot of straightening and reacted to junky releases more than cedars.  they do pack a wallop with a heavy broadhead.

[DesertDude]

I bought some 2 years ago from a dealer. Had them breast tapered. Mine were oval (egg shape) and not very stright. I paid top dollar for them. I could of bought 2dz parellel cedars for the same price. I know that may people speak highly of them........Mark

[robtattoo]

 Hateful things in my opinion. I bought 3 dozen last year & out of 36, I managed to get 11 reasonably straight shafts. The weights, however, were all over the place. They took an age to straighten & if I stared at them too hard, they bent again. They need a sander to taper, rather than a pencil sharpener style taper tool. Frankly, I threw the lot of 'em on the fire after 3 months dicking around with them & bought some good quality pine shafts for 1/2 the price. Guess what....36 shafts bought, 36 shafts that were even in weight, spine & straightness. I'll stick with proper wood from now on thanks!

[Falk]

My testing dz. of them was 32/64" and 85#. Good weight and quite tough. But I also found them hard to straighten and as said above, they like to get back into their original but untrue shape. I like birch much better.

[aromakr]

I guess with all the bad being said, I need to add some comments. I sell the Hex-shafts and have done so from the begining. They are the only shaft I sell, however you need to know somethings about them. They like anyother non-POC shaft need to be handled a little differently.
If POC has any advantge its the fact that its moisture is an oil. This oil resists warpage, non-cedar shafts moisture is water when it increases or decreases it will get crooked. Its no different than the 2X4 you buy from the lumber yard.So the key to them is sealing them well and they will stay straight. Too straighten them always use heat and they will straighten easily and stay straighter. And yes you can not taper them with a pencil sharpener type tool, the wood is stronger and heavier than POC.
They are in my opinion the best shaft in the industry, they just need to be handled a little different. I have several very high profile customers that use them exclusively and have for sometime.
Bob

I have the policy that if you don't like them I will refund your money or replace the order, its always been that way and will remain that way as long as I own the business.

[Scott E]

thanks for the info guys b/c I was just about to order them when i read this i only have a pencil sharpener style taper tool and i hate srtaightning arrows! maybe I'll try carbons when i shoot through the dozen cedars i got from oldbuck which i have to say are some realy good shafts-scott

[Problem Child]

I use the Hexshafts and love them. They seem to straiten easily for me and stay straight.I use heat the 1st time.If you guys don't like them you can send them to me.  :D    :D

[LONGHORN]

I've been shooting the hex exclusively in the past 2 years and like Bob said above,if done correctly,they remain very straight.They can take a lot of abuse also.Like any other wood,there are goods and bad side.I now own about 10 dozens of them in 60/65# and always order them match in weight and never encounter any problem,yet.160gr in front,hard hitting,all I've been asking for.
SP

[KodiakBob]

Got mine from Aromakr and they are great. They are tough and stay pretty straight. I use an AAE to straighten shafts.

[Walt Francis]

I also get mine from Bob (Aromakr) and have been extremely pleased with them.  He sells them by weight (+/- 10gr) and spine deflection (mine have always been within 5#'s of each other) i.e. 70-75#'s.  They are tough, durable, and fly good out of my recurves, longbows, and selfbows.  It took me a year and a half of stump shooting to break/crack my first footed hex shaft.  However, I was able to super glue the crack and killed two whitetails with it before the second deer fell on it, breaking it mid shaft.  I used mostly cane arrows this past year but the previous three years all my animals were taken with hex shafts.

[Chad R]

I had a similiar experience and was glad it wasn't just me ;-).  I bought some shafts too at the Compton shoot a few years ago.  The arrows I made were beautiful (even had my first creasting on them) but wouldn't stay straight.  I even bought the sealer they had.  No one told me about the pencil taper tools being a problem.  Bob and his wife are very nice and he makes beautiful arrows, but these shafts drove me to Carbon.  I have never made better arrows than the old ones I made with Rouge Rive Archery tapered shafts.  It sounds like cedar is easier for rookies like me.  I like the smell of cedar too :-)

[ROB TAYLOR]

I've never shot em...but I'll tell you this.  This thread has come up in one form or another a ton of times.  It seems to me, just as an observer, that these arrows are very tough, with a bit of a quirky side.  The solution seems simple:

1.  Buy them from Bob...who by all accounts knows exactly how to prepare and build these.
2.  Buy the parts/supplies from Bob and re-read the myriad threads where he and others explain how to build em.
3.  Shoot something else.

I do #3...but if I had a hankerin to shoot wood at all, I damn sure would buy these shafts from Bob.

-Rob

[Longbow Bowhunter]

I have been shooting them for about a year and love them.

[Billy Thomas]

That's all I shoot. I've bought several dozen from whispering wind (I'm pretty sure that's bob..lol).I've never had a problem with them after I figured out to heat them with a hair dryer to straighten. And I get OCD about my arrows. Although I've never even tried to taper them with other than a sander.

Very tough heavy shafts. I build my arrows to 870-880 grains and these and 3/8 oak are about the only choices. My only complaint is that, being made from several different pieces of wood, some of them stain funny. One wedge of wood will soak up considerably more stain than the rest and look odd. But I don't think the pigs care, so for us to care is just silliness. (I'm using RIT dye)

[Legolas]

I never could get them to shoot well and used all sorts of spines and gave up.

Paul

[HATCHCHASER]

Shaped like a bannana.  Gave mine to a freind     I wanted to see how long it took him to badmouth his gift.  Took about one day.  Good freinds are hard to find.

[varmint]

Originally posted by HATCHCHASER:
Shaped like a bannana.  Gave mine to a freind      I wanted to see how long it took him to badmouth his gift.  Took about one day.  Good freinds are hard to find.

That's FUNNY!!