Wooden arrow weights

[outdoorman]

Hello all, I recently started shooting 11/32 in. port orford wooden arrows. I cut them to 28in. and tip them with 125 grain points. How much does a 28in. 11/32 wooden shaft weight??? I have no idea and I don't want buy a scale. Can someone give me an average?
Thank you for your time.

[Firstarrow]

pretty tough to judge wood weights since the vary.

If I were throwing a dart @ the weight board I would go 500 gr +/- 25 gr.  

but who knows?

[goodolboy94]

mine are 480-495 and thats fletched and nocked with paint and a 125 magnus bh

[outdoorman]

thank you guys for your help. I was also wondering if you might know anything about rabbit hunting? I hit a rabbit with a flu flu tipped with a bunny buster but was unable to recover it. It crawled off and by the time I got there it was gone. I spent an hour looking and have no idea how it could have gotten away. I dont want to use broadheads because they are expensive. Any suggestions for quick kills? ( I shoot a 65 lbs bow if that helps)

[Jeff Cooper]

Take a .357 shell casing, glue that on the end of a non-tapered shaft, then slide a rubber blunt over that...I call them "wrecking balls" for a very good reason!  They will anchor bunnies, squirrels, and grouse too.  Good luck. Jeff Cooper

[shootssmallbulls]

I use ace hex blunts,old dull broadheads and judos,judos work really good but I always seam to break them of at the taper if i miss or hit a hard object. I also had a few rabbits run for a while and i even lost one with the hex blunts. So far the best is rubber blunts weighted down like jeffs idea thats alot of knock out power and it really seams to put em down fast.

[tecum-tha]

Broadheads are not expensive,if you do resharpen them yourself.A six pack of for example zwickeys is 22 dollars which equals 4 McDonalds burger meals.Broadheads can be reused over and over again unless you loose them.I don`t know what you really mean with expensive. A good digital grain scale is about 35 bucks and will last for a lifetime if you don´t abuse it.
Port Orford cedars areexpensive and not a real good bang for your buck. Use hardwood shafting. Dinks feather shop carries some.They are much tougher and only slightly more expensive than cedar. If you`re really tight on money then harvest your own river cane and make arrows. Why do you use fluflu arrows on rabbits? Use normal ones!

[Rik]

Here's how to make rabbit killers out of steel blunts.

Take a pair of side cutters (scissors that cut sheet metal) and cut four or five evenly spaced slots about a quarter inch long or so in the back side of the blunt.

Then take a pair of needle-nose pliers and slightly twist the sides of the blunt where you cut the slots so they are flanged out and also slightly twisted at a bit of an angle.

This gives you a head that imparts shock (the flat end of the blunt at the front) and cuts a wicked hole with the jagged steel edges on the back of the blunt.

They work well on big, tough jackrabbits.

[Rik]

P.S.

Reading a rabbit thread on the Dangerous game forum kinda reminds me of the killer rabbit in Monty Python's movine THE HOLY GRAIL.

If you run into a rabbit like that, you'd best be shooting 900-grain Ipe arrows with single-bevel broadheads!

[Dittybopper]

Or Wensel Wabbitslayers...

[Dozer]

Barta Blunts/Tiger Claws work great too. They have a flat tip for shock and the claw cuts a large hole. There only two or three bucks a piece from 3Rivers.

[Paul WA]

I order mine so they weigh 540-600 finished with 150 up front...PR

[Wolfkiss]

Hi, mine come out around 560g. 28" to the back of my 125g broadhead. 10 " taper on the back end and 3  5" feathers. If i remember thay also have about 3 coats laquer on top of the stain and cresting.