Wood Bow-Wood Arrows? Frustrated!

[Red]

I get my wood shafts from Paul at Elite Arrows. It took me some time to find the right spine but now I can shoot the same arrows on 3 different bows. Paul actually sent me a bunch of test arrows to try. The quality is top shelf and price is very fair. I don't like to shoot my carbons anymore. Same as Tim stated previously, wood arrows just feel better.

[woodchucker]

I'm suprized that not 1 person has asked what type of fletching jig/clamp you use.

I have not shot anything but wood arrows for the last 7 years or so (with the exception that THIS year I hunted with re-fletched aluminium XX75s that belonged to a friend of mine who passed away in Sept.) and I have NEVER had a problem with poor arrow flight,(grouping is another story but THAT is MY falt LOL)

First let me say that I do not make my own arrows.I buy my arrows custom made from Joe Skipp at Renegade Archery.Joe is a sponser here on TradGang.

Joe uses Bitzenburger fletching jigs with a VERY pronounced helical twist (I'm not possitive but I believe it's an 11 degree helical clamp) Joes arrows spin like a top and fly like a bullet!!!!! Also,I have NO problems with windplaneing broadheads.I use 2 blade Zwicky Eskimos and old green Bear Razorheads without the bleeder blades and I mount them horizontaly,they do NOT windplane at all.

Also,not all of my arrows are perfectly straight LOL.I buy a couple dozen arrows a year from Joe and right away the new arrows get stuffed into my backquiver.I try and use "newer" arrows for hunting,and after the dozen new arrows gets thinned out from being lost or broken the remaining arrows get stuck in a 5 gallon bucket for stumping and 3-D shoots.By the time my arrows are ready for the "graveyard" some of them are about as straight as a corkscrew,BUT they fly as "straight as an arrow" from the day Joe makes them till the day they die!!!!!  

[Shawn Leonard]

I say with a 30" shaft and 55#s at 29"s ya should shoot 70-75#s as ya normally add 10-12# of spine fro a high performance LB and than another 5#s for every inch over 28"s in arrows length. I had a proto-type PL and it was 51#s at 28"s (I draw 28"s) and I shot 29" Sitka spruce shaft spined 65-70# with 125 grain head and it bareshafted perfect. Go to arrowsbykelly(foxfire traditional archery now, but same old web address. Tracy has some greta wood and his spine charts are right on the money. Shawn