Favorite Wood For Arrows

[snag]

Doug fir can range quite a bit in weight. Which is a good thing. It gives you a range of weights to choose from. I usually can make an arrow that with a 145-160gr head cut to 29"bop is around 600grs.

[Davesea]

I am going with Surewood Doug Fir.  Super quality and straightness and a little tougher than the Sitka Spruce.  I am about to fletch some solid birch shafts to try since it was Saxton Pope's prefered shaft for hunting, and he did ALOT of testing...

[Vesty]

Douglas fir. All the qualities desired for a strong, straight, beautiful shaft in my opinion.

[Joseph]

Maple, yellow birch, bamboo, lodgepole pine.

[Squirrelbane]

Ash  :D

[bucksbuouy]

I got some hickory en-route. Let you all know when I get em.

[6feathers]

Like a lot of us I started bow hunting when the only wood as PO cedar. Over the years I went to aluminum, carbon, back to aluminum and then back to cedar. Over the last few years I have been using douglas fir and have found them very durable, straight and a little heavier than PO cedar. Surewood shafts are great.

[Bud B.]

Ramin is, to me, the toughest out there. In 5/16 I have yet to break one with some being bounced off limds and small trees.

[Pops]

Cedar for me. I had to go down in weight need
shoulder replacement gotta stay around 50lb now
so a cedar arrow with a 125gr tip about 500-520
works best. When i make a new dz seam to break
one right off but, i have some that are over
8 years old and still going strong.

[Don Stokes]

Any hardwood is much, much tougher than any softwood. The lightest weight hardwood that makes good arrows is yellow poplar. Most shafts will make 10-12 grains/pound.

[snakebit40]

What about hex shafts? Are they tough, light, ect. ? Do you pick what kind of wood you want with them or just got to live with what they have?

[Frank V]

I use split hex shafts & love them. They are tough, straighten easily, are heavy, & you don't have to worry about the grain as they are laminated.    
Frank