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Title: Wood dowel and AD Trad Lites, AD Trad
Post by: Stixbowdrew on October 01, 2015, 04:14:00 PM

Hey guys I am in the process of building a new arrow for my Centaur Dark matter. 62" 57@30 my my draw is 31" so I'm at 60#. I want to build a tough no nonsense arrow, so my thought process was to glue in a 4" wood dowel and taper the shaft to accept my 220g glue on heads, which is the heaviest wood dowel material I can get and what arrow do you recommend for my set up? Thanks in advance! And God Bless

Drew

Title: Re: Wood dowel and AD Trad Lites, AD Trad
Post by: Wandering Archer on October 01, 2015, 05:43:00 PM

Why not just use a broadhead adapter?

Title: Re: Wood dowel and AD Trad Lites, AD Trad
Post by: on October 01, 2015, 05:59:00 PM

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Originally posted by Wandering Archer:
Why not just use a broadhead adapter?

Sounds to me like he is wanting to use the dowel like an internal footing to make the arrow tougher.

Bisch

Title: Re: Wood dowel and AD Trad Lites, AD Trad
Post by: Jay-D on October 01, 2015, 06:03:00 PM

Check this thread out it should be what your looking forhttp://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=070146

Title: Re: Wood dowel and AD Trad Lites, AD Trad
Post by: Stixbowdrew on October 01, 2015, 06:04:00 PM

Spot on bisch! That is exactly what I am looking to do

Title: Re: Wood dowel and AD Trad Lites, AD Trad
Post by: M60gunner on October 01, 2015, 07:30:00 PM

If heavy is what you want try finding a Rockler Wood Workers store near you. They carry an assortment of hardwood dowels.
Or try Forrester Hardwood arrow shafts. He has some really exotic stuff.
I read somewhere (here maybe) of a guy putting Purple Heart dowels in his arrow shafts for hunting big game in Africa. Arrows came in well over 1000grains.