Why shoot wood ?

[Pine]

Aluminum arrows are cold and have no life in them .
Carbon arrows are just unbending and stubborn , have to do things there own way .
A wood arrow has warmth to it .
It has character and a personality .
It has life in it and seems to know what you want to do .
I just can't seem to explain all the attraction to wood arrows .
They have beauty and like a good women , they deserve to be respected .
In this cold mechanized world , it's nice to have something that is simple and comforting .
Why shoot wood ?.....

[crazynate]

I shoot wood arrows because they are beautiful, they smell good and they are simple. Nothing like building a real nice set and harvesting an animal with them.

[tecum-tha]

Last weekend I have been to a local 3D shoot and there was a father and his daughter right in front of me. The father was shooting the modern equipment but seemed interested in traditional.
The real thing was when I handed one of my arrows to his daughter and this arrow was treated and felt much different than when the daughter handled her dad's carbon with vanes arrow.
She handled the carbon arrow of her dad like a dead object but handled my arrow more like something alive. Especially the natural feathers she really liked. Lol.
Wooden arrows and bows from natural materials have their own spirit and differences...

[Captain*Kirk]

Originally posted by tecum-tha:
Last weekend I have been to a local 3D shoot and there was a father and his daughter right in front of me. The father was shooting the modern equipment but seemed interested in traditional.
The real thing was when I handed one of my arrows to his daughter and this arrow was treated and felt much different than when the daughter handled her dad's carbon with vanes arrow.
She handled the carbon arrow of her dad like a dead object but handled my arrow more like something alive. Especially the natural feathers she really liked. Lol.
Wooden arrows and bows from natural materials have their own spirit and differences...

I agree with this! Wood arrows, like one-piece trad bows, have a warmth and feel unlike modern "tactical" materials. Viva la woodie!

[ron w]

They shoot well, smell good when they break and are in a class all by them selves. While shooting last weekend I broke a cedar that was the last of 2 dozen I bought........in 1996. I bought my 1st custom bow [Green Mountain] and 2 doz. cedars at the same time. I love wood arrows.......  

[Deno]

Nothing more beautiful than wood grained arrows fletched with feathers and personal crest designs.
Also because no two are really the same.
 
Deno

[Slickhead]

I love the look and love wood arrows , but my bow doesn't.
I cant get them to shoot as well as an aluminum shaft.
But I think I was under spined?

Im shooting 2018's at 29 with 125 heads.

[SC Bowhunter]

I love wood arrows because of the myriad of deisgns that i can use when building them.
And not just the cresting, the whole arrow.
Footed wood shafts are beautiful as well.
Can't say that about aluminum and carbons

[Tree Killer]

wood makes a beautiful arrow, it's a renewable resource, and compliments a sexy recurve or longbow.

aluminum ... looks better as a beer can!

carbon ... the movie Terminator comes to mind

[Gordon Jabben]

Graps, you nailed it....

[Terry Lightle]

Graps said about all you can say on the subject!
Terry

1. Out of Hill style longbows, the window that makes a carbon arrow fly right with someone with my less than 27" draw is very narrow.
2. Carbon arrows that need to be full length are a pain in the neck when using a Hill style back quiver.
3. Carbon arrows are more of a 'you do it' spine, 55-70 from one company is not the same as 55-70 from another company.
4. A deer was shot with bits of carbon shards found when they were boning it out. A very dangerous thing to eat, they threw out the whole deer.
5. There use to be many weights of aluminum shafts, this gave people the chance to choose specific arrow lengths when they could nudge the spine just a little by going to a 1918 from a 2016, and also had glue on one piece ferrules or screw on ferrules.  those days are gone, I do have a large supply of those that work for me, but they are not replaceable.
5. With a little bit of work wood arrows can be sanded to hit exact spines and weights, all it takes is a drill and sandpaper, along with a grain scale and a spine tester.
6.  Wood arrows are easy to predict spine wise and at optimum easy handling near net or net lengths.
7.  The life in a wood arrow is forgiveness. I have had a number of people judge wood arrows as a category and fail to recognize that the ones they were shooting were completely wrong for the bow and were quite often improperly made considering the grain direction and end tapers, and often with lots run out.
8.  Besides being quiet, wood arrows are fast handling, "getting that second arrow out of the quiver and onto the bowstring" has allowed me to kill game after an embarrassing first miss or a few times when I was not expecting a shot and had no arrow on the bowstring.  
9.  Wood arrows don't get knobs of ice on them when it is cold and there is snow.
10.  Wood is purdy, but when you lose one, eventually it goes away and is not left for a millennia waiting in a farmers field to flatten a tire or get pickup by a combine.  I believe in leave no trace use of the out doors.  Arrows should rot away, and broadheads should rust away.

[JEFF B]

well i shoot wood and rivercane why? because i can and they are just Awesome. plus you can make an arrow out of any wooden item cant do that with aluminum or carbon in the woods  

[Pine]

Pavan

[Roy from Pa]

Wooden arrows just rock...

All stickbows should be respected and shot with wooden arrows. Afterall, we went trad for a reason..

I guess I'll be the dissenter on this thread!

The only time I will ever shoot wood arrows is so I can shoot another class at a 3D shoot, or when hunting with my selfbow, which does not happen very often.

Bisch

Just for that, you can't play on my yard.  A musical smiley face
   

[K.S.TRAPPER]

Originally posted by Tree Killer:
wood makes a beautiful arrow, it's a renewable resource, and compliments a sexy recurve or longbow.

aluminum ... looks better as a beer can!

carbon ... the movie Terminator comes to mind

Amen buddy!!!    

Tracy

[meathead]

They make arrows out of something besides wood?  Huh who knew?      

[kennym]

I'd start a thread about carbons but those guys are all out shooting......