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TSA raffle drawing shafts.

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bjrogg:
Thanks guys I feel pretty lucky today.
Ed that was the reason I picked some hemlock, for some weight. It's also is why my order took a little longer. I haven't had a chance to do much with them yet but they look nice. I think I'm going to hunt with my stone point Red Osier tappered shoot shalf arrows, but I may have one of these along
Bjrogg

BowEd:
Good choice BJ.The spruce is good too but lighter yet of course.Excellent target arrows though unless made longer for more weight.Usually stay very straight.
Making those killer arrows are always fun to shoot.

DC:
According to the Wood Database and my experience Western hemlock is a bit lighter than Doug Fir. When it's wet(green), different story. When I was building my house I used Hemlock floor joists 2"x 10" x 16'. I could barely lift them. It makes nice arrows. Very stable. I cut a bunch of 3/8" square blanks from greenish wood and put it in a tube with a light bulb. It was dry in a week with no warping.

TSA:
Thanks all for the very kind words.
Much appreciated all!! :D :D
so sorry it took a while! :-[
we will be putting more shafts up for grabs soon- just need to figure out a way so that there is not that interminable delay- I feel a bit embarrassed about it!
a bit hard to do, when everybody needs different shaft specs!

DC, you are correct. hemlock holds a lot of water when live, I have spoken to fallers who have said when they have cut into some of the big ol' trees- the fluids just start to flow out of the tree like water!!

When dried it is somewhere between Douglas fir and Sitka Spruce!

I must say I really like the spruce shafts, being lighter, one can up the point weight to attain your perfect hunting weight arrow, whilst simultaneously attaining a high FOC.
With some of the heavier types of shafts, after adding a heavy point, to improve the FOC, one can land up with quite a heavy arrow.

BEADMAN, the shafts you bought were from Steve Tanner of  Alaska Frontier Archery.
Steve managed to acquire all the old "Sweetland Battle shaft" machinery, and the name!!!
 He shipped it to Alaska, and spent years refurbishing all the machinery, and studying the process, whilst testing different wood species.
He found Both Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock produced excellent "Forgewood" shafts, it was not limited only to POC!

He finally opted to go for Hemlock, and was producing 5/16 shafts in #80- #90 spine shafts.

He produced the shafts, very successfully, for many years, but i believe he is finally retiring and has recently sold the business!

BowEd:
TSA...You are correct.I just managed to get a few on the tail end of his inventory sale.Possibly sometime I should try some 60 to 65 spine spruce with 160 or even 190 grain field tips on them for a 50# bow.See how much FOC I get from that.Hard to do to the degree or percentage that you can do it with carbides.

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