Wood vs. Carbon/Alum

[Jono]

Hi,

So been playing around with longbow for few months.

Always been shooting wood arrows.

I decided to shoot wood arrow due to the wood bow and arrow only event that comes up once in a month.

I do have carbon arrows, they fly alot straighter than my wood arrows.

My questions are should I stick with woodies just for the sake of being able to shoot better at the monthly event ? otherwise my accurate with woodies will be horrible if I only shoot carbon.

Thanks

[Knawbone]

If your wood arrows are tuned properly to your bow, they should shoot as well as your carbons.      

[Flying Dutchman]

Times two. Also check if your woodies are straight. If not, straighten them with a screw driver.  They should fly as well as your carbons and should be more forgiven. But maybe there is a weight difference between your woodies and carbons, that will give another flight also.

[Jono]

I was wondering what would cause a sudden drop at 30m+. My arrows tips are 100 gr (feels alot more heavy compare to the rest of the arrow) and I am only shooting 35lb. Sometimes arrows even fishtail on the front end when it gets windy

[snapper1d]

Jono,strip your feathers and shoot them bare shaft and tune them.Get one to shoot perfectly from your bow then check your spine on a spine tester and this will be the correct spine for your bow.I will do this till I get the first one perfectly.Then seal with lacquer and bare shaft it again.Some woods will suck up lacquer and get stiffer while some are not as porous and not suck up lacquer and wont change spine.If it stiffens up after sealing just sand a little till it spines correctly again.Then I sand the rest of the shafts till they are the same spine as the others.I seal and adjust till all are the same.Then fletch and its happy shooting.Oh I should of said to start with shafts that are all grouped in the same spine when you start.That way if you have to sand to adjust spine you will only be taking off little from each.If your shafts are weak you can remove tips and trim off the shaft a little at the time to stiffen the spine if needed.

[Jono]

Thanks snapper i will give that a go.

Tho I have limited equipment and will have to hit the range (an hour away from me) everytime.