Thank you Rob Green

[Brianlocal3]

I'm pretty sure I've said it before on other posts, but I just made a new batch of Sitka spruce and it got me a thinking.

I would not be able to make the arrows I do if it were not for Rob Green!!! Thank you very much Rob for all the time you put in walking me thru your steps for building arrows. I first talked to Rob and "met" him online when I was asking about arrows, it started with him walking me through the steps and sending me a link to his straighting video, which has led to a great friendship.

I had tried a few times to make arrows, everytime I ended up with some expensive tomato stakes and to the point I was a devout wood arrow basher, Rob then asked me some questions and wound up with my address and a few weeks later a box showed up out of nowhere. I noticed it was from TX , I open it up and it's some beautify arrows. Rob told me that if I couldn't shoot these then I couldn't shoot anything!!!! LOL. Well that was the day I learned a good set of woods can fly as true as any carbon or aluminum.

So now a few years later, a lot of effort and practice and I'm now making wood arrows I'm proud to shoot and that fly amazing!!!  They still are not as straight as what Rob gets them, and the finish is not as glass smooth but good serviceable arrows they are.

So again, thank you Rob, you are an arrowsmith like I've never met before and a great friend!

Watch Rob's videos if you want to learn to make some straight shafts!!!


 

Way to go Brian! You are way up there filling his head more full than it already is!!!! Have a little consideration. We have to live with him down here!                    

And I'm sure you are right, but I'll stick to my carbons (me and wood arrows don't get along)!    

Bisch

[Stump73]

[Brianlocal3]

Bisch,
Ol Rob told me about your ill treatment of woodies left behind...... Pretty tough message you were sending to the rest of them LOL.

[Mudd]

I appreciate all of you folks that can build shoot-able arrows.

I could watch all the videos that exists but I doubt that would change how I feel about trying to build one.....lol

Kudos to all of you arrowsmiths!!!!!

God bless,Mudd

PS: Did I say..."I hate, hate, hate, anything to do with building arrows.

[katman]

Originally posted by Brianlocal3:
Bisch,
Ol Rob told me about your ill treatment of woodies left behind...... Pretty tough message you were sending to the rest of them LOL.

Nothing burns prettier that a wood arrow!!!            

Bisch

[Brianlocal3]

[Green]

Brian.....Thank You for the kind words.  Really glad to help in some small way with the satisfaction of making your own tackle.

Bisch......nothing may burn like a wood arrow, but nothing else flies as well as one either.  IMHO.      :D

[DanielB89]

" Well that was the day I learned a good set of woods can fly as true as any carbon or aluminum."

I guess I need Rob to send me some, because I don't believe this statement at all! lol.  Not intended to be rude, but I just don't believe that.  I have shot a few and they are never very consistent imo.  

I want mine specifically for archery tourneys, but I have to find 1 that shoots well and shoot it for the entire round.  If that one should start shooting crazy for a few targets until I find that other one that shoots straight...

Rob, you just tell me where to send my address.  

[Brianlocal3]

Daniel?
I too am a tourny archer. I shoot LB in IBO, wood arrows.

I was gonna shoot MLB because I couldn't get woods to fly, I took those arrows rob sent me to the Worlds, my first ever big tourny and was fortunate to come in 8th, and yes the arrows made the difference

[Brianlocal3]

I couldn't have shot a better score with carbons or aluminums, it was all the archer who lost those points!!

[DanielB89]

Brian,

Can i ask what your average points per target was?  

I may need to express that I might not have ever had any QUALITY shafts then.  

I try to shoot as many tourneys as I can each year and almost every tourney I go to the carbon score is higher than the wood(just from my observation).  I won a tourney last year with a 341/400 with wood arrows, the winner in carbon shot a 367(I beat him with wood arrows).  

This year, I shot a 261/300 and got second with wood and shot a 279 with carbon.  I have never seen a guy who could shoot carbons and wood equally as well, unless it was equally as bad.  Some guys just don't shoot seriously, which is fine with me, but I like to compete.

[Green]

Based on the scores you're posting Brian, I'd say you're a top tier shooter.  The quality of your equipment definitely comes into play at that level.

[taxyman]

Very informative video you made on how to get your shafts straight  Mr. Green....thank you! Sure did help me a lot!        

[Brianlocal3]

I only shot a 8.5 PPT AVG.
I'll have too look at my score card for the numbers again.

Locally I typically shoot 340-350 range out of 400.

Now Kurt stunkle who I shoot with (2nd in MLB THIS year) usually shoots 360-380 locally.

Honestly though I keep the same scores with other shafts.

I'm a serious shooter , just not as naturally talented as others lol, so I accept  my shortcomings

[Green]

Thanks Taxy.  

Actually the arrow straightening thing was an accident.  I was spinning some arrows years ago, trying to get my broadheads to spin straight.   I noticed what the shaft was doing as it hung off the other end of the spinner.  I started moving the shaft back and forth on the spinner, noticing where the bends would show their most pronounced wobble.  One thing led to another, and not liking "compression" straightening methods, what I show in the video was the end result.  Years later, I saw a graphic that illustrated how a shaft flexes at the two nodal points (approx. 1/3rd of the way from each end), and that helped me to refine the way I go about this.

[DanielB89]

Originally posted by Brianlocal3:
I only shot a 8.5 PPT AVG.
I'll have too look at my score card for the numbers again.

Locally I typically shoot 340-350 range out of 400.

Now Kurt stunkle who I shoot with (2nd in MLB THIS year) usually shoots 360-380 locally.

Honestly though I keep the same scores with other shafts.

I'm a serious shooter , just not as naturally talented as others lol, so I accept  my shortcomings

[Green]

Daniel, post that pic!

[Sam McMichael]

The reason I think woods are as good as other arrows is not that are just as straight, because they are not. However, most of us are not steady enough to make much real use of the increased degree of straightness found in carbons or aluminum, not at the distances we normally shoot. At most of the shoots I attend, the score with woodies are about as good as with the carbons. However, the enhanced confidence factor that some feel with carbons is probably very real. Shoot what you like, and if equipment is well tuned both arrows will punch center.