Got NATURAL Arrows? (wood and grass content!)

[Rob DiStefano]

the big poll - join in, pick yer fave flavor(s) - up to 3 - and make 'em the top choice of trad gangers!  there are other woods, for sure, but this list oughta do fairly well ...      

[Rob DiStefano]

207 voters ...

1st - poc

2nd - doug fir

3rd - sitka spruce

4th - bamboo/cane

[Stone Knife]

Nice poll  

[lpcjon2]

Hey Rob what catagory would Don Stokes' Magnolia shafts be under?

[Rob DiStefano]

beats me, never heard of using magnolia for arrows - or juniper or mulberry or sassafras or .....   :D

hindsight sez i shudda stuck in an "other"  

[moose eye levi]

Ahh. no Ramin wood.

[drewsbow]

Bamboo      

[Steve H.]

I like god cedar, DF, and SS can be good too!  Any of you ever had a good purple heart shaft/arrow?  I have one and it is spectacular and probably 1000 grains, not sure, my scale doesn't go that high!

[Pat B]

From the choices you posted I would choose cane first, ash(full taper) second and viburnum shoot 3rd.
 My first choice for arrows is sourwood shoots but they would have been under "other".

[Ron Roehrick]

Bamboo #1 Cedar #2

[Mike Bolin]

Super cedars by Dan Quillan were excellent shafts, compressed magnolia I believe. Can't find 'em in the pine I need so my choices were doug fir, sitka spruce and p.o. cedar.

[fujimo]

awesome hi grade sitka grows all around me- so sitka is my choice- i have my own shaft jig.

[Shawn Leonard]

I chose doug fir as my number 1 choice and sitka spruce as my #2 and chundoo as my 3rd. I have made arrows of a lot of the choices listed and never really cared for cedars unless they were cedarsmith cedars. Doug fir cause it has all the best propreties that wood should have, it is tough, easy to keep straight and makes a fairly heavy arrow. I like chundoo cause it stays straight and is fairly tough but hard to find it that is matched in weight real well. Spruce makes for a nice lighter arrow and I always liked it for 3D and its flat trajectory and you could get it matched well in less than 10 grains per dozen. The best arrows I ever had and still have a dozen or so were made by HotHap from right here on TG and they were cedarsmith cedars and I have never had better qaulity or prettier arrow ever! Shawn

[Javi]

1. POC (when I can find some "GOOD" shafts...)

2. Douglas Fir (when I can't find "good" POC, DF would have been #1 but the quality of the last several dozen I've recieved was not up to the norm. Weight match was really poor)

3. Sitka Spruce (when I want a light, tough arrow)

[bentpole]

Dougie Fir, Sitka Spruce, and cedar for me.       I just started shooting some Maple Arrows 1/4 away sent me. I'll tell you what I'm really starting to like these arrows. IMHO they  could be better than Sitka Spruce and cedar.

[JamesKerr]

My choices were Ash, Poc, and Bamboo in that order. Ash to me is one of the best arrow woods I have used. It is durable and usually makes a great hunting arrow. Poc second just cause its cedar, and bamboo as it makes a really straight shaft for primitive arrows.

[Hatrick]

Loved the old Cedarsmith compressed POC's.

[Rob DiStefano]

ttt

[Stumpkiller]

I've only ever used P.O. cedar, D. fir, Ramin and Poplar.  Soo many still to try; but I'm happy with the fir for certain.

(Ramin gets a thumbs down from my results).

[snakebit40]

1. Douglas Fir
2. POC
3. Hickory