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Cane shafts dissapointing

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Cacatch:
I recently found that I do not prefer cane over wood or shoot arrows. I know this will come as a shock to most people here, but I don't see that cane is all that great. For me overall, I find processing cane and keeping it straight especially at the nodes and therefore flying straight, to be more work and I don't really care for it all that much. Sure it's tough, but that's the only real advantage I see to it. Anymore I've come to prefer my shoot arrows. Wild rose and a couple other species that I don't know what they're called.

CP

aero86:
what kind of cane were you using?  you might like a harder species..  ive straightened many dozens of shafts and its gotten easier to straighten.  maybe you just need some more time.  ive shot plenty of them too, and they generally get lost or stuck against something way too hard before they start to get too far out of wack..

Hillbilly:
To me, cane is about a hundred times quicker and easier to straighten and keep straight than hardwood shoots, and I've straightened probably hundreds of each. Hardwood shoot shafts are a ton of work for good ones. You must have gotten some bad cane or young stuff that hasn't matured yet.

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