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JackCrafty:
Point weight and heat treating will not affect the flight path very much....and you don't need to heat treat unless you are shooting bamboo or something that responds well to heat treating.  In my experience with privet shoots, excessive heat makes them brittle.

I shoot at very close range, 10 feet, when I bareshaft my arrows.  I'm surprised that yours flew well out to 25 feet.  Usually, the wind plays a big factor in how the unfletched arrows fly and if you shoot at a closer target you can get rid of the effects of wind.

One question:  did you plane the shoots down so that they are parallel sided?  If not, did you shoot with the heavy end forward?  They will shoot better with the heavy end forward....which could explain why they had such a straight flight path.

staveshaver:
Thanks for all the feed back fellas. Jackcrafty; no I didn't plane the shoots , and yes I shoot with the heavy end forward. so far I've debarked , straightened , sanded , and cut self nocks, and burnished about half of them. I was also surprised at how well they flew ,I shot each shaft at least three times before I marked it good or bad . out of the 18 shafts I figured I'd be lucky to get 6 that flew well , but 14 of them passed the test. I only have turkey feathers for 11 though.thanks for the advice about heat treating I will omit that step.Now I have to decide what kind of points to put on them, probably half flu-flus and half broadheads.I would love to post pics of my bows and these shoots but I cant seem to find info on how to do it .

Kegan:
I'd make flu flus out of those four ones that didn't fly properly. Feathers make everything alright (even with arrow match up) ;D

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