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I am only target shooting for now. I shoot mostly bamboo (if you consider them wood although some say bamboo is grass) but sometimes aluminum. Aluminum flies better and group a bit better when beyond 20 yards.
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I must confess that I get more consistent arrow flight with my broadheads with aluminum. I also like the fact that if I mmmmmiss and bury a broadhead in a tree or root, I can unscrew the aluminum arrow and use it again. Not so with wooden arrows. I normally have to break it off. With the price of good wooden shaft now-days about the price of aluminum, I use aluminum for hunting.
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I like making wood arrows and I have some POC stashed away that is very good,very consistent and very old. Good POC is now it seems getting hard to find. The Sitka Spruce that I have tried has also been excellent.
I have shot a lot of aluminum arrows over the years and still do. I have a great fondness for 1918's out of 50# or so bows. I have what should be a lifetime supply of them.
Carbon is tough, consistent, fly’s well and it is easy to get a high degree of FOC it that is your goal. I have been shooting them more recently and have nothing bad to say about them. They are tough and I like to stump shoot a lot.
Not sure any of that helps or answers your question.
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For one of my bows I shoot aluminum for 3D all summer but get out the woodies when really in hunting mode......Hill style bow,maple shafts,deadheads equal much bowhunting MOJO!
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There are so many people who just don't understand why a person would want to shoot wood arrows when you can just buy carbons and yada yada. Truth is most of them don't have any understanding of wood arrows. All they know is that they have heard that wood arrows warp all the time. The remainder are folks who have used wood arrows and either don't have the time or just plain aren't interested in the building and care of wood arrows and would just rather buy them done or mostly done. since you mentioned wood or aluminum, I'd say start out with aluminum, perfect your form, and then start building wood arrows for your self. Only then will you understand them and can make a clear decision for your self on which is the better product.
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If you want extreme accuarcy, shoot aluminum. If you want quiet, shoot wood. If you miss with wood it does sound a bit more natural when it goes bouncing off trees and other stuff. Not admitting that I ever missed, I preferr to call them warning shots, but looking back to my younger years, I some times got a second shot with a woody miss. Never can remember getting a second shot with aluminum.
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I'll put a Surewood Douglas Fir shaft at the top of the list for being straight and tough as hell.
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Like others, I like wood better... That said I hate to brake them... So aluminum is to me, more durable and more "accurate". But I have to get some SureWood chaft to try out i heard only good thing about them!! I shoot a lot of cedar, and they seem a little fragile. I have some Grizzly stick carbon arrow that I like but they are not undestructible. I think aluminum is the cheepest and toughtest arrow to shoot... but the loudest!!
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Yep, no shaft can handle Northern Territory stump shooting like wood (especially Douglas fir). Wood takes hard impacts much better, in my experience.
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For me, it's wood. I was given some aluminum and they fly great etc etc. But I look at myself as a "son of Mother Nature" not a guest. So when I go looking for Her offerings, I stay as close to traditional as I can; and that includes hiding behind dead fall and in the deep grass and right down to my wool shirt, hood, sash, etc. Wood for me.
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I've been shooting aluminum arrows out of my recurve bows for the last 46 years. I don't care for the skinny diameter of carbon arrows and when it comes to wood arrows, they aren't durable enough for me and not uniform in weight for a dozen arrows.
As for quiet, when I shoot a 637 grain 2117 aluminum arrow out of my 42# recurve with a 12 strand Dyna97 bowstring, the bow is whisper quiet upon arrow release and the bowstring doesn't have any string silencers attached to it.
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All wood isn't created equal. POC is soft and fragile, but my yellow poplar hardwood arrows are tougher than the aluminum I used to shoot.
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I'm also wood only. I enjoy full tapering them with a razor plane, working in the nock and point tapers, cresting and fletching them. Can't say I enjoy dipping them (the smell is a little potent). But the smell of working the cedar itself is right up there with fresh ground coffee. Mmmmmmm.
I throw a lot of arrows into stumps, and I destroyed my aluminum arrows in short order and never looked back. I also found wood to be quieter in drawing.
I have no doubt aluminum gives better performance. But then a .30-06 gives better performance than my feeble bow, so that's obviously not the point. ;-) We all have our quirks and preferences. I prefer wood.
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