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archeryrob:
I had some Hazel shafts I got from a guy in Scotland and they where hazel nut, I assume. I am not sure if this is the same wood, but it sounds the same to me. The arrows shot very well but warped easily. I lost and broke many and only have one BH left I hope to put through a deer just to say i killed one with it.

They seemed to absorb moisture more than my hardwood shafting and took to warping more more when it was humid as the summer is. I used to have similar trouble with some dogwoods, although not as bad. Indians used to use straightening groove, or lightning grooves, and I always wondered is that compression groove down the shaft might help them stay straighter and not warm. I never had the chance to try it and thought I might throw it out as a suggestion.

WillS:
You definitely don't need horn inserts for a 25lb bow.  You don't need them until you're shooting about 100lb, and even then it's safe not to use them.

People forget that the only reason we started using horn inserts in arrows is because of the Mary Rose, and they were for bows over 160lb!  If you're at all worried about the string splitting the nock just leave the nocks slightly larger in diameter.  That's safe up to about 80lb, at which point you'd want to wrap something tightly around the nock to prevent it splitting.  Once you start using horn as an insert, you don't need to wrap them either (although for some reason people still do both) but again, that's when you're well over 100lb. 

stuckinthemud:
Thanks Wills, I'll try leaving more meat in the nocks, I cut the last ones wide and deep and they started to split but a few turns of cotton as a wrap sorted it out

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