cheap stumping arrows

[cody94]

does anyone now where to buy some cheap arrows or shafts for stump shooting. it turns out im breaking many of mine because i like to take some crazy shots. any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you.  

[Rob W.]

Wood, aluminum, or carbon?

[lpcjon2]

Dicks has carbon and alum for $20.00 a six pack and you can try Amazon.com search archery.

[cody94]

preferably wood, i only have glue on points, but i could get the adaptors for them, then i would be going for aluminum.

[lpcjon2]

for wood PM Fletcher he has Ramin wood shafts at a great price.

[cody94]

thank you

[Red Beastmaster]

Twig Archery has great prices on their hardwood stumpers. They are 11/32 and spined in 5# wt groups. I buy several dozen every couple years. They're pretty tough too. I let 'em fly with abandon! If you have to worry about your arrow you're not having fun!

I use .38 shell casings with a #4 split shot sinker smashed into it with a punch, they weigh 125gr. For fletching I use drops from the chopper and cut them to 4" shields.

I might stain them just to tell spine groups apart. I seal by buffing string wax into the shaft from the fletching to the blunt. No need for any more than that.

I make stumpers the way Fred Anderson describes in "The Traditional Way"............."cheap and lots of 'em".

[Shakes.602]

Ramin Dowels from good old Wally-World! You can make 'em and tear them up and not be out much more than $.60 a Shaft!

[$bowhunter$]

what size dowels would you suggest? and for how heavy of bows?

[Barney]

Twig has them for about $8/doz.

[cody94]

thank you all. and steven if u see this, i want to see ur finish product of these dowels. haha

[Dimondback]

On the "How To - Resources" page under the Topic Archives, there is a $.92 Arrow build how to. I have built about 2 dozen of these and shoot them all of the time at the range and they shoot just fine for just messing around or stumping. You will find that you get more consistent results if you take the shafts that you order and sort them according to similar spine. I have noticed that some of the birch dowels (around 1 out of every 6) seems to be much weaker in spine than the others and flies accordingly. They straigten easily, seem pretty stable and take stain well. Good luck!

[$bowhunter$]

ive found poplear dowels at lowes for .92 for a 3/8 shaft. ive only used them as flu flus as i was scared of regular fletching that may have the arrow break on me, i dont have a scale or spine tester so sorting is hard. i just got strait grained ones and straitened them double wrapped spiral on them and shoot them. they fly great. my question would be is could i use these dowels with regular fletching for a 55# bow or can i go with 5/16 dowels with better results?

[SCATTERSHOT]

I spined a bunch of dowels years ago, and the 5/16 ones went in the mid 40s for the most part, and the 3/8" went 80# plus. I'd recommend the smaller ones if you shoot a longbow.