Sweetland Forgewoods are hard to find but great arrows if you can find them. I have 19 matched forgewoods that I got in the St. Jude’s auction a few years back. Danny Rowan and I were bidding against each other because we both wanted them so bad. We ended up teaming up to win the bid and he got a dozen and I got the balance of what was originally an exact matched set of three dozen arrows. Being from the early sixties/late fifties these are amazingly straight. Also, the arrows are heavy. 500 grains for arrow without points. Since these came in either 17/32, 18/32 or 19/32 diameter shafts they’re like the forerunner of skinny carbons. They hit with authority. Point selection is limited because of narrow diameter and there was an aluminum spacer called the Headshrinker that fit on the shaft and then cou use regular 11/32 points. Mine are the 19/32 so I can get a 5/16 head to fit well. The only other forgewoods I owned were acquired on Ebay by accident. The seller didn’t know what they were, nor did I until I got them. They were a very light spine, around 41#, and I ended up giving them to Ron LaClair and he ended up taking a turkey at camp that fall with them out of a lightweight 1956 dual shelf Kodiak. Those are the only sets of forgewoods I have ever run across. There was a company in Alaska that supposedly purchased the Forgewoods machinery and produce shafts that came in a sealed plastic bag. I had bought some, but the shafts looked like snakes and I ended up selling them off for peanuts.
I also had experience with Silent Pond tapered maple and ash shafts back in the early 90’s. The ash version was incredibly tuff. I actually stuck a Grizzly broadhead in a bionic turkey target using one. The shaft popped out and was laying on the ground with no damage. The head was stuck in the steel and the only damage was the rear of the ferrule had split a little. I was impressed with the shaft and the point.
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