Keep those threads coming. I'm working on some at the moment, or was a bit earlier. The dozen shafts I purchased were so expensive that I went to Home Depot and purchased some 5' stakes and cut them down to between 33" and 39". Thought before I started on the good dozen that I would tamper with the cheapies, follow directions as closely as this old mind could follow, and hopefully make all my screw ups on the stakes.
Even at that, the 3 I finished last week are not purty by any means. Crooked as a sidewinder slitherin thru the tall grass, but I'll be darned, at 15 yards they still ended up in the target (the 1st round). These are about 3/8 to 7/16 and spine out between 80 to 125. Since they will be throwaways, I placed 100 grain Woody Weights and 190 grain points on them to try to figure them out.
I will end up with turkey feathers and 160 to 190 grain trade points on the finished product (hopefully).