Cedars for whitetails!!!!

[3Feathers]

Just got 2 doz. tapered cedars from Wapiti Archery
and can,t wait to get them fletched up.Going to have around a 500gr.arrow when finished.will be using my HH Wesley special and for broadheads simmons tigersharks,with magnus turkey feathers.What is your setup if shooting cedars?What broadhead and finished weight arrow?Seasons right around the bend...........OH....YEAHH

[Prairie Drifter]

On my sub 50 lb bows I like a 125gr magnus or zwickey, arrows around 500grs. On my over 50 lb bows I like the 150gr single bevel tuskers and arrow weight around 600grs.

[moleman]

I like Cedars for everything.  
Ive just about shot up all of my lodgepole pine and Doug. fur, and its back to Cedars for me.
The other woods are great, but IMHO I feel like I get more consistency from Cedar, besides that, they just smell good when you bustem when your out stumpin.   :D

[Green]

125 grain Simmons or Ace on front of 29" Wapiti tapered Cedars.  Depending on bow and spine, they could weigh anywhere from 470-530gr.

[Bob B.]

51 pound longbow, 31 inch tapered doug fir shaft, 125 grain Ace 2 blade.  Total weight averages around 580 grains.

Bob.

[Knawbone]

Yep! Wapiti tapered cedars with 2 or 4 blade Eskimo's. 480 grn. out of my 46 to 48 lb. longbows. GN Bushbow or Hill Cheetah ( coming soon )

[coconutdave]

Cedars footed with walnut and 160 gr. STOS for a total weight of 575-595. I will be using these for bear first in Sep.

[K.S.TRAPPER]

No more cedars for me, Doug fir all the way. I like the extra weight  and they put cedars to shame stump shooting. Never broke a fir arrow yet shooting through a deer and always brake the cedars. I shoot a little over 600 grains out of my hill bows and seems to work for me don't plan on ever going back. Never had to straiten a Doug fir shaft yet either after many years and was always doing it with the cedars.

Tracy

[KodiakMag]

Shooting a 55# KMag but it's being drawn to ~50#.

Port Orford tapered Cedars, 125 gr Zwickey Delta. 540 gr total arrow weight (10.8 GPP). 3-5" Parabolic fletching.

[stillhunter]

57# straight end longbow/ 27 plus inch poc tapered/100 gr. woodie wt. and a zwickey no mercy/60/65# spine/ 620 grains/ three 5 inch parabolics/ cut to tick my hand with back tension

[Keb]

Love cedar

[Wheels2]

I feel like I am cheating when I shoot aluminums and simply can't bring myself to shoot carbons out of a recurve.
When you break a cedar you get that lovely aroma and re-taper the end for a new tip.  No such luck with carbons.  I always leave wood arrows  1 1/2" too long to allow for broken tips incurred while stump shooting.  The extra length and tiny bit of weight never seemed to affect anything.
Besides if you break a carbon arrow, what can you do with it?  If you break a cedar too short to re-taper, you take your tapering tool and make a bunch of shavings that you throw in with your hunting clothes.

[Orion]

I'll be shooting 550 to 650 grain cedars (mostly forgewoods) out of 50-56# longbows (mostly ACSs) for deer and elk this year.  Been doing that for about 50 years.  Hard to beat a good POC arrow.

[Dave Lay]

I shoot a 28" 560 gr tapered cedar with a zwickey delta out of a 58lb widow recurve and a r/d 66" longbow my other go to is 2020 aluminums but would much rather shoot the woodies  I just hate it when a critter breaks it after a shot...

[Sam McMichael]

I shoot cedar for just about everything. Generally I mount 125 Zwickie or 135 grain Magnus heads and use 5" shield cut feathers on 29" arrows.  My Hills like arrows spined for their stated draw weights @ 28". (I draw less than 28".)

I bought a dozen Douglas Fir arrows not long ago but have not shot them much in all this hot weather. I think I will like them also but have not yet used them enough to really know much about them.

As for breakage, cedar may not be as strong as some other woods, but it is not a pansy wood, either. I have bounced many of them off trees, rocks, etc. with no problems. But when they do break, you sure get a fragrant shower of splinters.

[wooddamon1]

Love me some cedars. These are around 550, I made 'em  12 or 13 years ago, still straight.

 

Gotta get some shafts again soon...