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Kegan:
Well, my latest bundle of birch is leaving me in fits. The grain is fine for shooting the darn things, but gouge rediculously as soon as I take even a finely-set plane to taper the darn things!

Since I already sand the middle to get the spine I want, I could just sand the end into a slight taper- but not the full 1/16" taper I had before with the use of a plane.

Howard Hill said that the right amount of taper is 1/16", but he had 1/32" on his arrows, and even modern carbon arrows (Grizzly stiks?) are slightly tapred- and people seem to notice an inporved flight. But almsot all the modern tapred wooden arrows I see have at least 1/16" of taper.

How much is enough ????

ricktrojanowski:
If you were to buy a doz tapered wood shafts I believe they are tapered from 23/64 or 11/32 down to 5/16 at the nock end.  So I guess you could figure about 1/32 to 3/32 would be about right.  This is just a guess.

Coo-wah-chobee:
 Hill said 1/16 " because at that time he was shootin' arras he "spined " himself by shooting. There were NO spine testers yet. Later after they made the scene he changed ta 1/32 " when he spined arras, guess cause he got better flight. Remember Hill shot at longer distances in those days but in later life he shot much closer and didnt feel tapered arras were necessary. Imo they are just another unecessary frill in todays huntin' enviroment..............bob

DanaM:
Never messed with tapered shafts except for cane and shoots and they are tapered quite a bit.
Personally I think its a waste of time to taper shafts but thats just my opinion ::)

Pat B:
I have heard from 5/16" at the nock to 3/8" at the pile end. Some only taper the last 10" of the shaft. I guess this would have the same effect but would keep the weight up.    Pat

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