Should I shoot wood arrows?

[Pinelander]

Consistency?

All three of these bare shaft Surewood Douglas Firs are within a 1" spread.

All three are 48 lb. spine.

All three were shot from 20 yards.

   

- Dave

[mike g]

Nothing better than a dz painted up woodies....
    But anymore I just use the legacy shafts.Get a dz now and dz later, there always the same....
    Around here ya have to shoot woods with longbows....I still use my legacys I just dont shoot for score....

[snag]

Looks good to me Dave!        Properly made and tuned wood arrows (key word is "properly") will fly just as good as other shaft types.

[Tajue17]

Originally posted by Pinelander:
Consistency?

All three of these bare shaft Surewood Douglas Firs are within a 1" spread.

All three are 48 lb. spine.

All three were shot from 20 yards.

   

- Dave

thats perfect shooting at 20yds bareshaft with woods..  curious what was your draw and the weight of the bow?

[Pinelander]

44 lb, 27" draw, split-finger, 28" bop arrows, 509/511/515 gr. using 125 gr. point, sideplate approx. 1/8" out from center, 12-strand D97, wool silencers, 54" Saluki Turk.

- Dave

[instinctivebowman]

dave, thats a cool post. i love shooting bare shafts. i cant usually make them do that thuogh. if my mind and form are right, my wood arrows will almost always go where they are supposed too. i have 100% confidence in them, not always in myself but certainly in the arrow.

jeremy

[instinctivebowman]

i will add that i may not shoot accurate enuogh to notice the slight differences in the wood shafts?

[moththerlode]

I like shooting bare shaft at 20 yrds , in fact been doing it past couple of days , it is a great way to work on form and release . If you get a little sloppy you sure know it.  Oh yea , Sherwoods for me. I like the durability compared to pine.

[Al Kidner]

Wood arrows can be hard to find at longer lengths... but, they are out there.

The last batch of timber arrows I made were all within 6 grains. Thats with BH's, nocks, creasting and fletching.

I've bought top of the line carbon shafts that are not that close...


If you build it, they will come...


ak.

[portugeejn]

Yes!  Try some of those Surewood shafts in Douglas fir.  Snag does some real real nice finished arrows.  

RonP

[Pinelander]

I apologize if I steered this discussion off-topic a bit. It is very difficult to find wood arrows that will finish out at 32" bop. That is a super long draw length, have never personally known a recurve/longbow shooter with that long of draw.  

Also, just wanted to clear up a few things...

First, I'm not (and don't claim to be) a hot-shot highly accurate shooter, just an average archer who loves to bowhunt. Second, I don't shoot bare shafts that accurately all the time, just sometimes. Third, I only posted the photo to show that wood arrows can be very consistent if they are spined the same, their weight is comparable, and they are well-tuned to the bow.

I believe it doesn't hurt to use an elevated rest either. I can't recall any bow I've owned that could group bare shafts as accurately off-shelf as they group off a rest.

But hey, we don't group arrows when we hunt and we don't hunt with bare shafts either... so shooting off-shelf isn't a bad thing. But I'm pretty sure those little doo-dads called arrow rests add a bit more consistency for me, regardless of the arrow type I'm shooting.

- Dave