Wooden Arrows?

[Tyler Langston]

Does anybody use glue-on broadheads on there wooden arrows? If so how good are they? and waht animals have you taken with them?

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Over 10 Whitetail deer, 1 coon, 2 ground hogs and a goose with glue on snuffers on Ash woodies.

[Fletcher]

I can't imagine using anything else.  They work extremely well and have been killing things for a LONG time.  Personally, I've taken whitetail deer, caribou and black bear and have seen elk and moose taken as well.

[Butch Speer]

Fred Bear & Howard Hill killed just about everything on land, including elephant, with woodies & glue on heads.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Absolutely, Tyler! They work great! I've taken billy goats, brumbies, a bull camel, and numerous pigs, including some real big boars. Wood has never stopped doing the trick.

[elkken]

From squirrels to moose and they work just fine with good sharp broadheads !

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Actually, sorry to be a stick-in-the-mud Butch, but I don't think Howard or Fred used wooden arrows on their elephants. I think they used heavy glass or aluminium. However, I understand that Bill Negley used resin-impregnated cedar made by Eastman, at least for his first elephant hunt (I'm not sure about his later elephants; I'll have to do some more reading). Cheers, Ben

[4est trekker]

There you have it, Tyler.  Unless you're planning on hunting elephant, wood arrows with glue-on broadheads will do you just fine!       That's all I use, too.  I use them because if I'm going to go to all the trouble to build my own bow, string, quiver, etc., I want to build my own arrows, too, and that means from a block of wood or raw shoot to hunting arrow.  Plus, I know this will sound stupid, but I like the fact that wooden arrows break.  It just gives me an excuse to make more!

[AkDan]

the only thing about glue on bh's is getting a correct taper to get your bh's mounted right...mine spin like tops, the ones that dont I set aside as target arrows.  I prefer a long taper for my eskimos...I dont remember the length but I think it's 1" 3/16ths from the shoulder to the very tip of the taper.   I also believe it helps with getting the bh aligned right but isnt AS nessicary as a striaght taper and that shoulder I mentioned.

if you have the woodchuck taper tool you can do a simple shoulder (stop the cut just a tad short instead of letting it completely run off the large part of the taper).   You can't do this with a pencil sharpener style taper tool like the 3 rivers taper tool or the wiffen.  

it'll make a huge difference in mounting your heads.

Personally I've shot whitetails, a turkey, moose, caribou, and dall sheep with mine.  As easy as it sounds I'm STILL working on a black bear.

[Don Stokes]

Tyler, I couldn't begin to guess how many millions of animals have been taken with wood arrows and glue-on (or wrapped-on) heads. That was the world-wide archery standard for most of archery history. Other materials for shafts have only been developed in recent decades.

[Onehair]

A buck, doe and a hog this year. Been using woodies most of 30 years with just an occasional switch to carbons.

[FubarFred]

Last yr I bought a doz of carbons...they still are on my work bench in the same plastic wrap. It's like Curt said, they break and you can make more. Add to that the cost of wood vs the cost of the others, and they smell so good when they break.

[Jesse Minish]

They fly great. That is all I use. I have taken blacktail, mule deer, whitetail, elk, bear, turkey and coyote.

[Butch Speer]

Ben,
Sorry. My bad. I realized I messed up after I had written it.          

[lpcjon2]

And lets not forget that Howard also killed at sea.With fiberglass I'm sure.But wood with glue on's is what I use,just make sure you use hot melt or Ferrel cement .

[jerseyboy]

I mad ethe switch to trad gear this year and found quickly that the woodies shoot so much sweeter than anything else thats all im using. As of yet i havent drawn blood with them but im trying. They are very accurate with the 125 grn woodsman heads.

[bushytail]

I keep going back and forth between carbon and wood.I`m making up a batch of woodies now.They`re fun to build,They`ll kill an animal just as well as any other arrow material.

[Sam McMichael]

I shoot wood most of the time. I do sometimes shoot aluminum, but there is just something neat about wooden arrows. The only large game I have taken with wood is whitetail deer, and it works just fine.