? about tapered wood arrows

[Smallwood]

Lets say I shoot 65-70 spine parallel wood shafts and want to order some that are tapered at the nock end, will this change affect spine enough, that I need to go up in spine to a 70-75?

[Orion]

If you're ordering your shafts already tapered, just order them at 65-70.  Tapering reduces the weight by a pound or two, but since you're not ordering parallel shafts and tapering them yourself, there's no need to order them any heavier than you normally would.

[Bjorn]

Orion is right, and since most of the bending takes place in the middle, tapering will have little effect either way.

[Traxx]

Smallwood,
In my experience with rear tapering arrows,i loose about 3 lbs of spine fairly consistantly.I spined before and after tapering to see for myself.

[Fletcher]

You should do fine ordering your regular spine.  I spine all mine after tapering and match them that way.  When I've checked it, I only lose about 2 lb in the tapering process.  Go for the tapered shafts, I believe you will like how they fly.

[DesertDude]

Here's a different take on it. if you shoot 70-75 spine woods and they work great. Now you taper them and only lose 2-3 pounds, now let's say that out of the dz shafts 8 of them are 70# (before tapering). You now end up with 67-68# spine after tapering. I have seen this over and over when ordering wood shafts. I order 70-75 spine and after they taper them I get 65-70 spine group shafts. You would think that who ever you buy them from would spine check them after tapering. I feel if I order 70-75 tapered shafts then all 12 of them should be between 70 and 75 after tapering, c'mon that's a 6# range.