carbon or wood arrows??

[snag]

Call me "old school"...but wood arrows out of a wood bow is a perfect combo. If you make a wood arrow correctly with good wood shafts, i.e. Surewood douglas fir, they will fly great and hold up well as long as you don't put them in a rock. When I say made correctly first they must have the correct spine for your bow. I think a lot of confusion and problems arise around this issue..just like with carbon actually. They are quiet out of the bow and the feel is hard to beat. Try 'em, you might like 'em.

[BRITTMAN]

Im loving wood now for the past 4 or 5 years , aint nuttin more cool than wood arrows and a longbow

[don kauss]

Wood was alive...has spirit...was part of "the woods"...it's like that old Jeep commercial; if I have to explain it to you, you wouldn't understand...

You might as well ask what's the best candy bar... It's all personal preference, and in this case, philosophical parameters as well...

For me, there won't be a day I pull back a carbon arrow...not because they don't work, it's just that I can't stand the way they look & feel, and life is too short to shoot ugly, synthetic arrows...

I agree with the advice to try both, and see for yourself...but get yourself some woods made by someone who's been doing it for more than two weeks...

[mark Willoughby]

Thanks everybody for the input so far I've always
Shot the cedars but have only ever bought the ones
From 3 rivers I just got a new bow n today n they shoot
Pretty darn good out of it I just hate the fact that everytime
I shoot a deer with a cedar arrow it breaks ! Bc it's
Never a clean pass through the new bow I'm
Shooting is a 58# big Jim buffalo so I'm sure that
It will have no problem zipping right on through
N the whole wood bow wood arrow thing just fits like a
Glove but I still may try some carbons just to satisfy my curiosity

[Shakes.602]

There is Nothing more Satisfying than Shooting some Fine Arrows You have Created Yourself!! I Love to Make 'em and if I Break 'em, it gives me an excuse to Make More!!

[Flying Dogg]

Penetration is what made me switch from wood to carbon. My carbons are the same weight as my woods but the small diameter Axis shafts blow through deer. The difference was drastic for me.

[Bill Carlsen]

Over time carbon is less expensive.

On a hunt carbon will out penetrate a wood shaft.

Carbons are always straight.

I use carbon because the results and costs outdo wood.

[rwbowman]

I have shot carbon for over three years. Learned with them and learned to love them. Last January, a good friend and longbow shooter, Spanky, asked me if I wanted to go to Texas to shoot longbow, but also mentioned that I would have to shoot wood arrows to compete. I took the chance and got myself some great wood arrows and now have a hard time shooting carbon. It's like wood arrows are made for this... Having said that, I carry both in my hip quiver for practice (I hate taking too risky of a shot with one of my beloved wood arrows), but have been exclusively carrying wood into the woods for hunting.

And I never even made it to Texas