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[Thumper Dunker]

Ran out of carbons about a year ago. Been shooting Douglas fir and they are the cats meow.

[NY Yankee]

Many guys don't want to fuss with their gear. Set it up once and leave it. The don't want to, or cant, spend time on arrows, straightening or refinishing them. Just put them in a quiver and set them in the corner and don't mess with them til the next time they want to shoot. Others, like me, don't mind or like to spend time with our equipment. take the arrows out of the quiver and look them over, check for cuts or damaged nocks, Finish scraped off or  damaged, feathers that need to be replaced, or a shaft that wandered while in the box and needs a little straightening etc. This is why carbons have taken over. Ask any body and you'll hear : they're more durable" or "they last longer" or some such response. THEN they will go into performance properties. I like wood shafts. They fly well and are fun to build arrows with. I enjoy it. That's why I have them. This is a great country because we can have so many choices in our stuff. Toe each his own.

[snag]

Well stated NY Yankee.

[Jakeemt]

I have built and shot all three wood aluminum and carbon. I like them all. Been think about swapping back to woodies since i ha been shooting car in so much. Who knows.

[Bowwild]

Of course I started with wood in the late 60's and early 70's. Tinkered with them again about 10 years ago. I was just never satisfied with consistency of weight and straightness. Plus, I couldn't tune as easily by adding or reducing weight.

I've shot carbons through my recurves for five years but this year I'm using very high tech, Deep Six aluminum over carbon. Ironically, my options for adding weight with inserts and broad heads have been reduced by the new, thread system in the Deep Six but I'm making it work.

[snag]

Just an observation...seems to me there is a whole lot more "tinkering" I see going on with carbons. Adding weighed inserts, pt. weights, new shafts that hit the market...
I just grab some properly spined shafts of the wood of my choice. Then cut to length and make them into arrows. Of course you can bare shaft or paper tune them. Pretty easy.  But once again we are fortunate to have these choices.

[Stumpkiller]

I agree it's great to have choices.

It's probably been a year since I've straightened an arrow with other than a rub over my upturned palm and then a twirl point-down to make sure it was straight.  Three seconds.  I shoot wood, all I shoot is wood, every day (have an indoor 20 yard range at home) and they do not require much attention once finished.  After the season I check the ones I dragged along in my side quiver.  I break a few on stumps but that's OK and an excuse to make some more - which I enjoy doing in the cold, dark winter.

It does take some effort when making them.  I check each shaft three times before the arrows are done and the ones that are still a problem get culled.  It's a myth that they need pampering -   IF you start with good quality shafts.

[Vesty]

I have been a pretty devoted douglas fir shooter for some time but had a few P.O.cedar shafts that I put together for this season. My first time out in early October shooting my brand spanking new N.M. Classic, I sent that shaft like a lazer into a beautiful mature doe. Ah, sweet cedar!