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Equipment & Gear => Archery Gear => Topic started by: quadrafire on February 25, 2010, 11:29:46 AM

Title: Traditional shooters
Post by: quadrafire on February 25, 2010, 11:29:46 AM: Hey folks. Just curious about your arrow choice for recurve/longbow shooting. I have the urge to get a long bow,and would probably try wood arrows (maybe even try making my own). But i see alot of folks with carbon and aluminum. Any thoughts?
Title: Re: Traditional shooters
Post by: luvtohnt on February 25, 2010, 12:05:02 PM: I have recently got into traditional archery, and let me tell you it is so much fun. I got some bamboo arrows and they fly and shoot awesome. However I have not shot wood arrows yet so I may be a little biased. I have also been told that rosewood makes awesome arrows and they are easy to make on your own.

Brandon
Title: Re: Traditional shooters
Post by: quadrafire on February 25, 2010, 12:09:56 PM: Where did you find the Bamboo arrows?
Title: Re: Traditional shooters
Post by: NWWABOWHNTR on February 25, 2010, 12:10:53 PM: I shoot primarily carbon now out of my longbows and my recurves. Wood is great for hunting and stump shooting, but don't care much for them at 3D. I have switched because carbon is soooo forgiving. To get the right spine try Stu Millers dynamic spine calculator....
http://www.heilakka.com/stumiller/ (http://www.heilakka.com/stumiller/)
Title: Re: Traditional shooters
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on February 25, 2010, 12:14:24 PM: I think you might use rosewood to foot arrows, but you need straight grain to make straight arrows. :twocents:
Use whatever you can afford at first to practice with, and get other types as you gain experience.
They all work, it is just a matter of personnal taste.
I prefer wood myself (cedar) ,but if you are just starting, aluminum would be cheaper, they dont break as much and cost less to begin with.
I hunt with some Bill Sweetland Forgewoods that run over $15 apiece, that can add up if you throw them around the range.
I practice with whatever I can find in the correct spine ( I shoot every day on my 3D course in my backyard, 12 targets)
Title: Re: Traditional shooters
Post by: luvtohnt on February 25, 2010, 12:20:51 PM: What do you mean by
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I think you might use rosewood to foot arrows,
The rosewood or wild rose arrows I have seen were really straight and the grain was almost perfectly straight as well. Maybe I am missing something when it comes to straight grain, I am a newbie.

I go got my arrows from a local bowyer here in E-burg.
http://www.rudderbowsarchery.com/store/ (http://www.rudderbowsarchery.com/store/)

Brandon
Title: Re: Traditional shooters
Post by: colockumelk on February 25, 2010, 02:04:25 PM: I am so much less of a man!
Title: Re: Traditional shooters
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on February 25, 2010, 03:07:35 PM: I looked at site and didn't see any rosewood, or wild rose arrows
when I hear rosewood, I think of rosewood risers on bows, I have never heard of rosewood arrows....
Rose city archery ? :dunno:,
It could be possible, after all I don't know everything, but I have never heard of rosewood arrows.
Title: Re: Traditional shooters
Post by: luvtohnt on February 25, 2010, 03:47:39 PM: They call them rosewood arows, but they are made from Virginia Rose found all over this side of the mountains. The rose grows shoots that are 3-5 ft tall and if treated properly can be cut and dried to make excellent arrows. I am going to try to make some so maybe I will do a tutorial on it so others can see. I just have to go get some wild rose. The website I gave the link for was for the bamboo arrows, that quadfire asked me about. Sorry for any confusion.

Brandon
Title: Re: Traditional shooters
Post by: Snapshot on February 25, 2010, 07:10:12 PM: Other shrub shoots that make good arrows are Ocean Spray and Hazelnut, both abundant in parts of this state.
I once traded a guy a half dozen steel blunts for a couple of dozen Wild Rose shafts. GOOD TRADE!
Title: Re: Traditional shooters
Post by: sisu on March 08, 2010, 03:02:34 PM: Yew recurve, two blade wood arrows