Why not wood...?

[wahoo]

all I shoot is wood. Just bought 3 dz pre finished from Cabelas and 2 dz from 3 rivers. I shoot long and self bows and to me anything other than wood just don't seem right.

[Jack Skinner]

Wood for me Quality is not a issue

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[dixieshooter]

WHAT TYPE OF WOOD IS THAT? SOME DAY WHEN I HAVE THE SPACE, I'M DOING TO DO THAT FROM SCRATCH. WOOD AND WOODWORKING IS IN MY BLOOD. MY UNCLE BUILDT GRANDFATHER CLOCKS WHEN HE WAS ALIVE.THOSE ARE SOME FINE LOOKING ARROWS!

[Jack Skinner]

Thank you,

The wider boards are ash my personal favorite, the other two are zebra wood that I am experimenting with. Have also tried Leapord wood made a beautiful arrow that was heavey of weight and spine but a little brittle like Doug fir.

[Don Stokes]

Aluminum and carbon have no soul, no personality. Wood arrows have both, and are quieter, both in shooting and in handling. Ever accidentally tapped your bow with an aluminum while hunting? It's an unnatural sound that alerts everything in the woods. Do it with a wood arrow, and it sounds like an acorn fell.

Wood arrows naturally dampen the vibration of shooting more quickly than arrows made other materials. Aluminum arrows actually "sing" while going through the air. They don't quit vibrating until they hit the target, if it hasn't jumped out of the way or ducked. Stand downrange in a safe place and listen.

For me, nothing equals personally making up a quality set of woods and shooting them, especially taking game or winning trophies with them. They are a link to tradition and personal satisfaction that I just don't get with the manufactured stuff. When I shot competition, I really enjoyed switching to a recurve sometimes and beating the aluminum and carbon shooters with my handcrafted barreled woods, just to show what the woodies can do.

[Schafer]

I use Alum. and wood arrows because i like them the best and it feels better to shoot them.

[TRAP]

good wood is good.  I dont feel I give up anything by using wood arrows.  Forgiving, durable, and they just feel "right" to me.  

Spend a little extra and buy a tightly matched set and you'll love them.

Trap

[snag]

I agree SuperK. Making a wood arrows is fun and rewarding. There is a feel and stealthiness about a wood arrow shot through a wood bow that feels right. I don't get that with carbons or aluminumnimums...lol  Oh, those shafts will shoot well no debt about it. Just doesn't feel the same.

[Downeast]

Some people build model airplanes.  I build wood arrows, many of them right from the log.  Some of them from shoots.  My feathers come right from the turkey too.  Cut'm, dye'm, shape'm, glue'm.  It's all great fun!  And I, for one, can't shoot bare bow well enough to take advantage of the consistancey of aluminum.  Admit it folks, if you're not shooting pin sights, you can't either.

[TSP]

I like wood.  I shoot aluminum and a little carbon, too (though never from my Hills...).  But wood is my favorite.  

The older I get the more I tend to think that no matter where I'm headed, 'simpler' is somehow the right general direction.  No science or technology to base that on, though.  Just a gut feeling.

[George D. Stout]

Those who keep saying you can't get good wood shafts or arrows are not correct.  I've been shooting woods for a long time, and yes I do like aluminum as well.  I've found great shafts out there that will shoot better then most here can shoot them.  Part of the mystique of wood is that they will still shoot straight, if not perfect themselves.  I like things that cooperate in the field.  If you're looking for perfect straightness and no anomalies at all, then stick with the tubing.  The last ones I got from Larry at Lost Nation will group so tight you need tweezers to pull them out 8^).  Well...almost.

[JC]

If I could find wood arrows in the spine I want, that finish out at the weight I want, that are as durable and cost effective as carbons, I'd buy wood in a heartbeat.