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huntertrapper:
What wood is good for arrows. i have some hazel shafts. Some hard wood dowel rods. Soft woods arent good are they? i just want to experiment with some woods. any info. would be awesome thanks

DanaM:
Hazel will work, I think just about any hardwood will, ash, maple, hickory, birch etc.
Pines, spruce, cedars, douglas fir all work. As long as you have stright grain and
knotfree, if your talking shoots anything straight and that spines high enough can work.

huntertrapper:
so soft wood pine will work?

DanaM:
White pine, red pine should but ya need clear striaght grained boards.

Hillbilly:
For shoot shafts, I prefer hardwoods (sourwood, viburnum, hazel, dogwood, buffalo nut, etc.) Softwoods like pine or poplar make good split-timber shafts. I've made good shafts from pine, poplar, and ash by splitting sections of log into "boards", then sawing/splitting them into 3/8" x 3/8" squares and planing them down to 11/32" or so. The pine shafts will be lighter and break easier than the hardwoods, much like commercial cedar shafts.

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