Who shoots wood only???

[Pepper]

As usual Rob, you are right on target.
I have shot all of them, and prefer to shoot wood, but, I still use carbons, properly spined and weighted to hunt with.
I love to build wood arrows,and that is what keeps me shooting them, as well as they way they feel.

[First White Falcon]

Sitka Spruce!

[Bowspirit]

I like carbon, and I love to tinker, so I'm sure I'll jump back to them every once and a while. But I really have no need to. Doug fir gives me a nice do-it-all hunting and target shaft, while hickory has proven as tough as all but the toughest footed carbons. Only thing I've used as tough was a footed Grizzlystik carbon. That's saying something.

[hvac tech]

well my one buddy started shooting aluminum from wood . he said they were cheaper and all that stuff .well if you are comparing buying like rob says yea he is right . but i have a few shafts in the reserves . i bought them really reasonable .buy the hundred 25 to 35 cents a pc so i can cull them out you know what i mean right now the feathers are costing me more than the shafts . i did switch to aluminum to hunt with and they fly perfect and all the ones from here on will no guess work like wood. but all and all  i still like wood it does have a nice warm look while hunting no hollow banging sound

[ishoot4thrills]

quote:Originally posted by Rob DiStefano:

......."so, for all you folks who poo-poo carbons or alums, y'all shooting self or backed bows?  NO???  you got glass in yer bow limbs??? or worse yet carbon or foam???  OH NO, yer 'techie' guys too!      

[Northwoods]

Wood only here. I like making my own stuff, I like the way wood arrows look and they've worked well for me.  Oh, and I like the smell of broken POC shafts.

Ted

[jsweka]

Wood for me too.  Either douglas fir or ash.  I've been shooting mostly douglas fir for the past couple years, but I think I'm going back to ash with my new longbow for its weight and durability.

Don't want to offend anyone here, and you can shoot whatever works for you, but I've always had the belief that shooting carbon arrows from a longbow is kind of like using a night crawler on the end of a fly rod.  It may be effective, but something just doesn't seem right about it.

[magnus]

I shoot wood but was once told isn't carbon actually a natural material in it's raw form? Hence carbon dating old things. Let's face it carbon has been around a long time. I know it's not the same as carbon arrows but shoot what you want. That's the beauty of trad archery it all works if you do it right.

Keeping the Faith!
Magnus

[Steve Van Buren]

Wood for me.  POC and Doug Fir.  Still shoot the Eastons when I dust off the compound, but I started out with wood and feathers and nothing else works as well for me shooting off the shelf with a longbow.

[Pepper]

Lets throw a little gas on the fire.
Last I knew, wood is carbon.      

[George Tsoukalas]

I make and shoot selfbows. I make my own wooden shafts by handplaning white pine usually. I also harvest hardwood shoots and wild rose shoots from nature. I just love working with wood. I guess I inherited that from my Dad, Lord rest him. For my bow and for my arrows the Lord does  the work.    Jawge

[straitera]

Nice to see you again George. Hope you hang around awhile. Good input.

[centaur]

I have to confess that I bought half a dozen carbons earlier this year, and they shoot great, but they don't have the mojo of wood. They are used as virtually unbreakable stump shooting arrows. Everything else is wood, and will continue to be.
BTW, I just got 2 dozen POC shafts from Rocky Mt. Specialties, and they are hand spined and weighed within 5 grains...$38/dozen. Very nice shafts.

[nkw880]

i shoot woood only because my brother will not build any other arrows for me we played with some swaged easton autumn hunters theyre beautiful but i think they are loud so they just sit around and collect dust but i do shoot ash cedar and birch shafts and love all o them

[snow leopard]

i went over to aluminum back in the late '70's for a short time. been cedar and sitka spruce since then. i love wood arrows---.

[NTD]

I prefer shooting grass, tonkin cane that is.