Heavy wood arrows

[3Feathers]

Who hunts with heavy woodies?What type wood are you using?Do you hunt from treestand or groundHunt with recurve or longbow.........Sorry got cabin fever.

[Bowspirit]

My lightest are some 640-grain firs I have...my heaviest are some 850-grain hickories. I love 'em all and shoot from both stands and blinds....

[mnbearbaiter]

I love heavy wood shafts, i like to do an oil soak for days on end in a homemade dip tube! My last attempt i used some KK German mountain pine shafting 65/70 spine! I cut/tapered and gave a light sanding and a hand straightening before putting the entire dozen into the pvc dip tube! Check daily topping off oil soak! After a wk of soaking, i take 'em out and dry 'em for a wk! i then do a few hand rubbed coats of urethane! My 30" shafts went from 450gr before soak to 525gr after, fletching and with a 160gr point i have about a 675-680gr finished arrow wt! Thats goin to be my hunting arrow for a while as ive made 3doz of them!!!

[mnbearbaiter]

Oh yeah, i shoot these out of my #55 Bear Montana! Its a heavy arrow in that aspect, but the bow loves 'em, whisper quiet and zero shock! They hit like a truck!!!

[Thunderhorn25]

my longbow piulls 47# at 25" and I shoot 525 grain lodgepole pine

[JRY309]

I liked ash for my heavy wood arrows.

[Orion]

I generally hunt with 600-650 grain cedars that I get that way by soaking in Watco oil.  Also have some original Sweetland forgewoods I still use, but I'm running out of those.  I use this arrow weight for mid-50s bow weights.  I consider them mid-weight arrows.  A heavy arrow is 700-1000 grains, IMO.

[Fischman]

I like my 850 gr hickories out of my 65# NightHawk on the ground or in a stand!

[ron w]

I have used Laminated Birch...725 Gr out of a 51# bow whisper silent!!

[lpcjon2]

I have surwoods at 625gr and some cedars at 680 ish.

[Joe Subler]

are you guys including broadhead weight on these or is it just the shaft itself?

Thanks,
Joe

[snag]

I am sure any wood shaft, short of a Sweetland Forgewood shaft, that weighs 600+grs is with broadhead Joe. I shoot Surewood Shafts that are douglas fir and they weigh about 600grs with heads. That's in 80#-85# shafts. Wood is wood...so you can get a wide range of weights with each batch of shafts. So, if you are really trying to get as heavy a shaft as you can you should talk with who you buy them from and tell them this is your intension. But over all every batch of Surewoods in the spine weights I have bought have given me an arrow with around 10+ gpp as a finished arrow. Good hunting weight.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

700+ Ash shafts 160grn point treestand & ground.

[straitera]

Got some Ramins thi year from Greg Sweeny tipped w/160gr Ace totaling 750gr. Really like the way they shoot & sharpen.

[maxwell]

I have Alaskan hemlock forgewoods that easily get 850+ and they are 5/16

[Jack Skinner]

For 600-650 I use internal and or external footed poplar. For over 700gr I go with ash. For over 800gr I use hickory, maple, and a couple of exotics yellow heart, leopard wood. I turn my own shafts so I can use and experiment with a wide varity of woods.

[Birdbow]

Like Orion, I love the discontinued Forgewoods and use those left sparingly. Have shot ash too with good, hard - hitting results from 70# LB from trees and on the ground.

[Ron LaClair]

Years ago I had Don Brown make me a couple dozen arrows out of Forgwoods by Sweetland. Some of the old timers may remember when Don was going to buy out Sweetland in Oregon and moved up there and started making and selling arrows from Sweetlands stock of shafts. He ended up selling off their inventory of shafts and then bailing out, leaving Sweetland high and dry.

Anyway, I killed a few deer with those heavy shafts. They were 5/16 spined for 100#, I don't remember what they weighed but they were heavy.   :eek:   I remember I shot a raghorn buck from a tree stand, the arrow had a narrow 2bld Hunters Head, the bow was a 90# Hill style bow by Brian Pridgon (remember him?) The arrow went through the buck like he was a cardboard silhouette and burried so deep in the ground that it must have killed a dozen night crawlers. Talk about overkill..        

[ErikT]

Originally posted by Ron LaClair:
Years ago I had Don Brown make me a couple dozen arrows out of Forgwoods by Sweetland. Some of the old timers may remember when Don was going to buy out Sweetland in Oregon and moved up there and started making and selling arrows from Sweetlands stock of shafts. He ended up selling off their inventory of shafts and then bailing out, leaving Sweetland high and dry.

Anyway, I killed a few deer with those heavy shafts. They were 5/16 spined for 100#, I don't remember what they weighed but they were heavy.    :eek:    I remember I shot a raghorn buck from a tree stand, the arrow had a narrow 2bld Hunters Head, the bow was a 90# Hill style bow by Brian Pridgon (remember him?) The arrow went through the buck like he was a cardboard silhouette and burried so deep in the ground that it must have killed a dozen night crawlers. Talk about overkill..          

How were these Sweetland Forgewoods manufactured to give such a high density and weight?

[Ron LaClair]

 How were these Sweetland Forgewoods manufactured to give such a high density and weight?  

Sweetland had some kind of "press" that compressed a larger dowel into a smaller dowel making a small 5/16th shaft but retaining the weight of the larger shaft.....something like that.