Question for the wood arrow experts

[shortstroke 91]

I currently shoot GT 35/55 full length with 100 grain brass inserts and 250 grain heads (total of 660 grains). I'd love to build some wood arrows that will shoot with the same trajectory of these arrows but my experience with wood is very limited. Is this a possibility or am I asking for a miracle? Not looking to hunt with these just some target shooting.

My set up is a 17" Morrison riser with Medium Dryad limbs that are #46 @ my 29". I'm shooting a B-50 string and my brace is set @ 8 3/4". aprox 150 fps.

Anybody got any good ideas?

thanks to any and all...

[BAK]

Ceder will be too light.  Maybe ash with a 125 to 145 grain head.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Ash or sourwood fir to help get the weight.. Depending on arrow length I would think 55-60 or 60-65 will be a good match.

[snag]

What is "sourwood fir"?

I would recommend Surewood Shafts (douglas fir). You will get more weight out of them than cedar and more durable. Great shafts. As I recall the Morrison is a cut to center riser. You could go with 70#-75#'s if your draw length is 29"...? If it is 29" you could cut them to 29.5"bop and a point weight of 175gr. This would give you an arrow of over 600gr total weight. If you wanted to go lighter in spine weight then use the 60#-65#'s with 145gr tips.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Fingers not working to good this morning... My Bad................

Meant Surewood shafts (Douglas Fir)

[snag]

haha, thought you just needed another cup of java.

[Mike Vines]

I too would say Douglas Fir in the 60/65# range.  Plenty of weight, and very durable when compared to cedar.  With your 29" DL, I would cut the arrows to 30" (BOP)and see how a 125 head works, and possibly move up to a 145 head.

Good luck, and let us know how they work.

[shortstroke 91]

I should have said I'd like to use 190 grain points, so maybe I'll need 65-70.

[Autumnarcher]

I just finished tinkering with some Surewoods. I put 225 up on the front end, cut at 29" BOP. The unfinished shaft with 4 4" feathers weighs 637. All it needs is a coat of stain and 3 coats of wipe on poly. Should end up around 640-650.

Do yourself a favor and order a tuning kit from Braveheart Archery. You get 3 each of 4 different spine ranges to play around with. Its worth it.

I was able to fine tune my setup to right where I wanted it, and they fly awesome. I did find I didnt need as heavy spine shaft as I thought I might. Dont be afraid to tinker before nailing down the spine that works best for you.

[Rob DiStefano]

honestly, woodies are SO different from man-made arrow shaft materials that it pays to get a surewood doug fir shaft spine test kit.  that will make shaft selection almost too easy and the kit can be reused over and over, for all your future bows ... no? yer not gonna have any more stick bows?  hah!  yeah, right.   :D