where do you buy your WOOD arrow shafts? I've been trying different suppliers trying to find good ones. The worst came from Kustom King, and the best directly from Rose city. I am having Neil Hildebrand make me some Douglas Fir at the moment.
I hear Raven Archery has good stuff. Havn't tried them yet.
Wood is getting hard to find, now that they are Exporting it for guitars and such.
John, The best shafts aren't sold in the U.S. anymore. They were Norwegian pine. But I have been getting my cedars from Mike at the nocking point and they have been top notch lately!! But I have been really thinking about allagany mountain shafts and going with ash..Heavy but tough!!
-- Edited by thunt on Friday 23rd of December 2011 03:27:36 PM
John, The best shafts aren't sold in the U.S. anymore. They were Norwegian pine. But I have been getting my cedars from Mike at the nocking point and they have been top notch lately!! But I have been really thinking about allagany mountain shafts and going with ash..Heavy but tough!!
-- Edited by thunt on Friday 23rd of December 2011 03:27:36 PM
Twig Archery has very nice ramin shafts, parallel and tapered. Heavy and straight. Good prices. I have some of their shafts that are close to 20 years old. One of them spent a year lost at our club. It shot fine the next year.
Ever consider making you're own? All you need is a table saw, and a drill. Time consuming i'm sure, but they say its not as bad as you think. It will make you appreciate how "cheap" manufactured spined/weighed shafts are.
I made some self-nocked,dark stained, with tied on full length wild turkey feathers, outta Lowes 5/16 oak dowells. Did these up just to make some "indian" arrows for my selfbow. They looked great, and flew pretty decent, still need to make some saw blade broadheads to really be "mine". I wanted the 5/16 for a weak spine, and oak for some extra weight. My goal is to take a deer with one of those, but i'm running out of time, and on my butt not hunting, so its not likely to happen this year.
Den, I shot wood for years, at least 20 years ago, I just discovered carbon was the most accurate, durable, and cheapest way to go .(gotta count you're time Den) I won't shoot anything but wood outta my selfbow, anything else just wouldn't seem right. But hey, if you are gonna shoot a composite bow made of the latest man-made glasses and glues, why not shoot manmade arrows as well? Its simple economics man, i'm a tightwad, so i'm shootin the cheapest shafting i can get. I don't cry when I lose a $3 arrow, i do if I lose one that I spent alot of time building it. besides the woodies don't bounce off trees and rocks as good. I ain't never bought no $1,000 bow either, and seriously doubt I ever will. I have bought a couple of $600 bows, one for the wife, one for the son. $525 has been the limit for me. (thats really not alot to be proud of)
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