Laminated Birch ????

[RIng]

Hi Can some of you tell me your experience with laminated birch arrow shafts ? Thank you Rick

[Fletcher]

Pretty heavy but tough and shoot well.  They also tend to be a smaller diameter depending on the spine and I feel that helps with penetration.  They can be tough to straighten if they start to get a little crooked so seal them quickly.  Heat helps with straightening.  I liked them when I was using them.  I've gone to using heavier heads these days, so stay more with the lighter shafts like fir and sitka spruce.

[meathead]

They are a good heavy hardwood shaft.  I have shot a lot of them through the years.  They are good stump shooting arrows.

[Gordon martiniuk]

I have some super heavy 700 plus grains tough to straighten but when straight they stay there ,,

They need to really match the bow you shoot them out of, spine wise, to shoot without getting loggy.  I bought them for a particular Hill style bow, precut and tapered, with the 140 grain Hills that I wanted to use, they were loggy out of that bow. However, they were perfect when I put 160 on them and shot them out of a lighter longbow. The spine should have been correct out the heavier longbow, but I think that they preferred the heavier head for balance.

[durp]

what i didn't like was some of them were spined correctly but most were spine checked from the soft side and they would NOT NOT NOT stay stright...i had to strighten them after just a few shots...SO...make sure if you buy them that they are spined from the correct side.

they will make you bow nice and quiet.

[groundhawg]

I liked them when I used them and dont remember them being overly difficult to deal with.

[J.T.]

They shoot great for me but I also have problems keeping some of them straight.  They straighten fairly easy but they don't stay straight

[PArcher]

My dad shoots them a good bit and likes them a lot. Tough and heavy.