What is your arrow of choice?

[Fletcher]

Originally posted by fujimo:
i love spruce- its super tough, and lighter than fir, i can up the weight with heavier tips, and get a better FOC %. and get a good hunting weight arrow or more- the shaft is just the delivery system for the broad head- i tend to focus on the B / head more!

The Sitka Spruce shafts I've received from Hildebrand have been quite good.  Sitka has the highest strength to weight ratio of all woods and has a fiberous structure that makes it quite tough.  Its light weight really lends sitka toward the use of heavy heads and a higher FOC than other wood types.  It's too bad that the spine maxes out at about 75 lbs.  Altho I still prefer fir, I have used Sitka with excellent results and a good friend used a Sitka arrow I made him and a 225 gr Tuffhead to kill a pig earlier this month.

I killed this pig a few years ago with a Sitka arrow with 50 gr of lead up the nose and a 190 gr VPA Terminator 3 blade.  FOC was pretty high for a wood arrow.  Entered at last rib and stopped in opposite shoulder.