Posted: 1/8/2012 11:40:06 AM EDT
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Having just got back into archery after about 15 years I find that my knowledge is a bit out of date, including the matter of what wood to use for arrows. (Most of my previous archery experience involved shooting Easton XX75 aluminum arrows.) I am now shooting a 40# Toth Magyar Horse Bow and hope to work up to shooting my 55# Martin Howatt Hunter. I currently have some Port Orford Cedar arrows. I see that I can now buy arrows made from POC, hickory, laminated birch, ash, Douglas Fir, and even others. What type of wood for your arrows do you prefer and why? Thanks.
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Originally Posted By FiremanBrad: The POC is likely the most common. The laminated shafts can and will be heavy, as will the hard woods, ash, hickory, etc. Here's where I buy mine, along with most everything else trad, Mike will take good care of you!! http://www.thenockingpoint.com/index.html Cool, I'll check them out, thanks. I may try some ash shafts. I've read elsewhere that they are very resistant to breaking.
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| I started out with cedar due to they were easy to work with. Ive shot lodgepole pine, hickory, maple, and now shoot only bamboo. Bamboo is nature's carbon and is nearly indestructable, nearly. Bamboo is thin diameter, naturaly tapered and will shoot off anything. |
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Originally Posted By TheDrof06:
I started out with cedar due to they were easy to work with. Ive shot lodgepole pine, hickory, maple, and now shoot only bamboo. Bamboo is nature's carbon and is nearly indestructable, nearly. Bamboo is thin diameter, naturaly tapered and will shoot off anything. Got a source you'd share? Or do you collect & roll your own? |
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Here is a great place to start with Bamboo arrows.
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,28697.0.html All about how to make your own arrows pretty cheaply. I make my own Osage bows and hunt with Bamboo arrows. Here's my club's web site take a look at the videos. We're generally well known in the Traditional and Primitive world of Archery. http://twinoaksbowhunters.wordpress.com/ |
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i make all of my own bows and arrows
i make primitive self bows,there for i like to make primitive arrows as well for arrows i have used river cane that i get from guys down south or i collect arrow material while i am hunting here in MN cane is like natures carbon fiber,virtually indestructible i have used red osier(dog wood),and wild rose wild rose is my favorite material for shafts with any of these you must season them first,then clean and straighten them then find ones that fly good from a particular bow i dont use a spine tester i just shoot bare shafts from the bow that i need to make arrows for if they fly good out to 15 yards,then i add fletching and points to them and reshoot them when fletching them i use turkey feathers from birds i have killed and sinew from deer to hold the fletch on i just wish i could use stone heads that i knapp,but here in MN that is illegal sorry if i got a bit off topic |
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Not OT, just necro-posting.  Anyway, I found my favorite natural shaft material: bamboo. I got some bamboo arrows from China off eBay and they are outstanding.  I got them from this eBay store. At first I ordered a half dozen, but I liked them so much that I bought another 12. I shoot them in my 50# Manchu bow from this seller.  For my 40# Magyar bow, I still shoot some POC arrows that I built from shafts from 3Rivers Archery. |
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| My favorite is bamboo. I've also made some tough, heavy stumping flus flus from Home Depot's six-pack of 6' long bamboo stakes and from whatever discarded cuttings from full length turkey feathers laying around. I also like Douglas Fir but wood tends to break easily. Mostly I shoot plain old aluminums. Don't like carbon but understand it's all the rage with compounders and traditional shooters. |
