Heavy wood arrows

[LeverActionman]

Whats the heaviest wood arrows you have built? Do you have any pics to post.I just built some but dont have a scale to weigh yet I will guess about 600 grains.

[wooddamon1]

I don't have any pics, but I've built woodies from ash that weigh around 750 grains. By the way, those little clip scales that 3rivers carries are cheap and quite functional.

[RPolk]

I have some heavy purple heart shafts with 190gr Ribtecs that come just shy of 1000gr.

[Bjorn]

Hickory 775 gns-too heavy for me!

[SlowBowinMO]

Killed a deer with a 730 grain Surewood last season, the heaviest woodie I've used thus far but most of mine are well over 600 at least.

I like heavy.   :D

[jsweka]

Ash shafts, 160 grain head, 28 1/2" length = 685 grains.  Very quiet coming out of my 59# homemade Hill style longbow.

[monterey]

Mine are full length 23/64th POC with 190 Ribteks and come in at 675 grains on the three rivers hand held scale.  Like wooddamon1, I find that little scale to be quite accurate and also easy to use.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

857grn.. I made the arrow out of ash & a 4" piece of 2317 easton Alumn. The arrow was made to be set on fire and shot.

It was kool seeing it flying in the night sky.

[longbowman]

Here's pics of the arrows my son makes and shoots.  Their hickory shafts with his own handmade points.  They run an average of 950 grains.  The arrow on the left is made from rose shafting and weighs in at 900 grns.
 

[Rob DiStefano]

imo, with woodies, it's too easy to get a really heavy 12gpp or more finished arrow.  i prefer surewood doug fir these dayze - what great shafting and you can typically ask for heaver mass weights.  couple the heavy wood with a nail footing or woody weight, add in a heavy broadhead and yer good to go.

[Jack Skinner]

Ash with 190gr homemade tradepoint 780gr weight total there or abouts.
 

Pass tru on antelope doe at about 18-20yards. Took best antlope buck the next year same arrow set up and selfbow, no picture
 

Also make hickory, maple, yellowheart, leopard wood arrows in the 800-850gr range. As well as hardwood footed poplar in the 650-750gr range.

As you can tell I like a little substance to my arrows.

[Mike Vines]

I just shipped out 2 dozen 11/32" raw shafts that weigh on the average of 800 grains and are 30 1/2".  So a completed arrow should be around 1000 grains depending on the heads.  1 dozen spined 90-102#, and the other dozen spined 80-89#.

I made some of the same teak shafts that were a little on the lighter side for one of our arrow contests, that finished out at 758 grains.

Purpleheart makes a beautiful and heavy shaft.

[frank bullitt]

Nice looking arrows, Jack! I have made and shot Ramin wood arrows over 700 grains. Hard to get that wood anymore.

Going to have to get some Surewoods to try out.

[Rik]

My heaviest are 860-grain Ipe. And Man are they straight.

They are 29-inch shafts tipped with 160-grain Grizzly broadheads.

I ordered the raw shafts from Allegheny Arrow Woods.

They worked extremely well on two buffalo bulls. Serious bone-smashing, deep-penetrating, tough-as-nails arrows!

 

[snag]

These are some Sweetland Forgewoods in 80#-85# spine weight. They are cut 29" bop with 160gr tips for a total of 800grs. They aren't being made any longer.

I'd recommend Surewood Shafts also. Great weight, durability and just plain great shafts!

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Originally posted by Rik:
My heaviest are 860-grain Ipe. And Man are they straight.

They are 29-inch shafts tipped with 160-grain Grizzly broadheads.

I ordered the raw shafts from Allegheny Arrow Woods.

They worked extremely well on two buffalo bulls. Serious bone-smashing, deep-penetrating, tough-as-nails arrows!

 

Nice pic of You, the bull & Howard Hill...

[SlowBowke]

Originally posted by snag:
   

These are some Sweetland Forgewoods in 80#-85# spine weight. They are cut 29" bop with 160gr tips for a total of 800grs. They aren't being made any longer.
 

Snag? They didnt sell those like 14 to a box did they so I could buy two? lol

Ive some finished 5/16 arrows that weigh 510-525 without a head on them yet. Assume they are Ramin since they were in my "old box of shafts" and I cant tell, lol. Ive shot em with 165 grain heads and going to try heavier.

SOMEDAY, Ill find a couple Sweetlands. Just gotta use them with some other old "stuff" I use hunting, at least once before I jump off this rock.

One for my "bucket list".

So nice. Thanks for showing those to us.

God Bless

[snag]

What spine weight do you shoot SlowBowke? Might have a few that could be mailed to Indiana for fulfillment of one item on a bucket list!

[Orion]

I came across some Sweetlands a while back that were too heavy for me so I traded them.  They were 30 1/2 inches long, 11/32 with a 10-inch taper to 5/16.  My spine tester is only accurate to about 100#, and these were heavier than that.  Raw shafts weighed 850 grains.  Sealed, fletehed with a standard weight head, they would make into 1,000 grain arrows. Bill Negley writes about using forgewoods with these dimensions in his book, Archer in Africa.  Wish I had kept them.  

Mostly, I shoot arrows in the 600-650 grain range, though I did use 725 grain arrows for an Alaskan Moose I killed a while back.

[snag]

Awesome shafts you had there Orion! That is what happens when you dramatically compress wood and make it much more dense.
Like you I shoot arrows that are around 600grs. This gives me 10+grs per lb of bow weight. This works for me. These are 11/32" Surewoods.