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Hillbilly:
The multiflora rose that has eaten half of western NC makes good arrow shafts. I've used it quite a few times, works good and grows all over the place, so it's easy to find. Just be sure to cut at least year-old canes that have fairly thick walls. The center is pithy, so first-year canes aren't as strong. Rose shafts are as tough or probably tougher than commercial cedar shafts, and weigh similarly to them.

TRACY:
Multi flora makes excellent shafts. It grows well in the midwest and don't have any problem being picky and finding thicker/straighter shoots.

Tracy

Shooter_G22:
when ya'll say rose,  i cant help to think that we are talking about a rose bush with rose flowers on it???  like the rose bushes my mother and grandmother always had along the side of the house on a weve fence and makes pretty flowers... ???
is this the same stuff we are talking bout here does anybody have any pictures of the stuff growing wild... i do have some wild rose shoots that madcrow sent me and i have made one arrow from on of them and i like it but i didnt think the arrow would be worht me going over to a rose bush and cutting the thing up to get some arrow material...lol...

what exacly is rose shoots comming from???

Hillbilly:
Shooter, what most people refer to as wild rose is multiflora rose, an invasive rose bush that was introduced here from Asia and is now growing all over the place. There are thickets of the stuff here that cover acres and acres. It is one of the parents of many of the hybrid garden roses. There are also some native wild roses that make good arrow shafts-here we have swamp rose and carolina rose, I have used both. Garden roses will work if you get the second-year canes. Do a google image search for multiflora rose.

Pat B:
Any roses will make good shafts if the "canes" are appropriate...ie. long enough, thick enough and as Hillbilly said, mature enough.
Shooter, The roses you are probably talking about are hybrids that were developed for flowers. If their canes are long enough, they will work. Some of the old fashioned roses(shrub types) would be more appropriate as are the wild(native and non-native alike)roses.  Do a Google search for multiflora roses. It is an exotic plant that the wildlife folks planted for erosion control and for wildlife habitat and food...and it has taken over the country with a vengeance.  ::) Leave it to the experts to screw things up!!! ;D

Steve, great minds think alike!!! ;D

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