who shoots wood arrows only

[Florida bowhunter]

Why do you shoot wood only,

[elkhunter45]

Quiets down the bow, penetrates better, and looks better IMHO. An added bonus is the conversations it strikes up with those that have no experience with them.

[Jim Wright]

They fly beautifully, are quieter than aluminum or carbon and satisfying to make. I like mine simply stained, sealed and fletched but the sky is the limit for cresting dipping, spliced fletching etc..

[Jim Wright]

They fly beautifully, are quieter than aluminum or carbon and satisfying to make. I like mine simply stained, sealed and fletched but the sky is the limit for cresting, dipping, spliced fletching etc..

[mcgroundstalker]

Gonna try the wood only route this year... Just feels right... Can't explain it... I dig building 'em... Love the smell when they break... And as stated above, very quiet for hunting... Will be an interesting year to say the least.

... mike ...        ...

[Stone Knife]

I'm going back to wood, just love the look and how a nice wood arrow leaves the bow in silence.

[Florida bowhunter]

So how do you woody guys tune your woodies, bare shaft em, how ya do it....?

[Terry Lightle]

Quiet,and just seems right.I bare shaft

[Orion]

I've shot wood for 50 years, but have begun to shoot some carbons in the past few years.  Wood has a wide range of spines, so you can buy the spine you need.  May need to try a test pack, i.e., several spine steps, to get dialed in, but after that, it's just a matter of buying more of the same spine.  

I don't bare shaft.  I buy the spine I think is right for my bow, cut them to the length I want, one inch beyond the back of the bow at full draw, fletch up the arrows and shoot.  Depending on how the arrows act, I fiddle with point weight, brace height and/or nock point.  As a last resort, I might need to move up or down in spine a little.

[Caughtandhobble]

I love to shoot wood arrows, that's all I have shot this year.  

[stabow]

Who wouldn't want to shoot them......
 

[K.S.TRAPPER]

Doug Fir arrows are all I will ever need with my longbows, strong, strait, quiet and heavy. Once I started shooting them I new I would never go back.

I could never say that about POC's

Tracy

[atatarpm]

I know it was said by one of the greats that you can not make a silk purse from a pigs ear but I can make wood arrows tune better then I can make carbons tune. And there is something about crafting a wood arrow with your own hands and then flying it to the target be it living or just a bulls eye on a piece of paper. What better satisfaction can there be in archery then to craft everything that you are using?

[JDunlap]

What is the general rule that most of you have found for estimating the needed spine? 5 or 10 pounds of spine over bow weight?

[tkytrac]

Shhhhhhhhush. Don't tell my bows. All they have ever known is wood. They don't even know that any other arrow material exists. I kinda like it that way. LOL

[elkhunter45]

JDunlap. I am always the weird one in the bunch, but I tend to shoot a lighter spine weight say 5# under to even money on longbows and even to 5# over out of my recurves.

[Florida bowhunter]

Well i am thinking on getting some shafts from RMSG..and see how they do......

[JDunlap]

Thanks elkhunter45, My problem is my rer's are cut to or past center...and so shoot some stiff carbon arrows 300's and 340's -- w/ about 225 total grains on the end. I figure it will take some fairly stiff woodies.

[hitman]

I do. Nothing beats a beautifully decorated set of wood arrows .

[Sam McMichael]

I like wood for just about all the reasons already stated. I like the looks, the performance, and the nostalgia. Also, I find them fairly easy to tune. Besides, I am one of those guys who feels that a Hill bow is just supposed to shoot woodies.