Wood Shafts

[kybowhunter2]

In your all's opinion what is the best wood shafts to hunt with. I have used cedar could not get them straight for some reason. What is the best?

[Huntingnut]

Don't know if there is a "best", but I'm pretty much sold on Douglas Fir.

[jsweka]

I like douglas fir for straightness and ash for durability and weight.

[briarjumper12]

I have used poplar, ash, hickory, sugar maple, and basswood. Any of the hardwoods are hard to straiten. The basswood I've used is really nice. Easy to straiten and shoots good.

[meathead]

My 2 favorites are doug. fir and laminated birch.

[Terry Lightle]

Doug fir for me

[BCWV]

Douglas Fir but have been using poplar more in the last while. Hard to beat it for value, durable and good weight.

[Jake Fr]

I ave been playing with hackberry shafts I hve been turning down my self and way tougher than ash or hickory with alot more weight. But I also think ya cant go wrong with sitka spruce I have not tryed Douglas fir so cant compare their

[LongStick64]

Not sure if it can be technically called wood but I am having a blast with natures carbon....Bamboo

[cahaba]

I got 3 dozen Surewoods(Douglas Fir) from Tim at Braveheart Archery and didn't have to straighted any of them. Also they were all within 4 grains of each other in weight. I have shot them for six months and have only had to straighten two.

[Eric Sprick]

Used POC for awhile but got some DougFir in a trade a while back. Really impressed with the weight and straightness of the Fir.

Eric

[Orion]

Good POC is about as straight as wood gets and is quite easy to straighten as well.  I also like Doug fir for a little physically heavier shaft. In hardwoods, birch or hickory, the latter being quite heavy.