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Stoner:
Really like the colors and especially the feather and fur flu flu. John

backtowood B2W:
very nice arrows!!
For ash shafts - are you looking for tight or big growth rings?
Thanks for reply
B2W

Philipp A:
Thanks all for your comments it is much appreciated! In regards to the question from "backtowood B2W" I am looking for as many growth rings as possible in the arrow, but it is more important to me that they are not running out the side of it.

I have finally managed to shoot them, the flu flu slows down very quickly (I just shot it straight in a very steep arc) but it travelled nice and straight. It maintains decent velocity the first 10 yards and then totally dies over the next 10.

The 5/16' arrows with the 125 grain field points are exceeding the distance by about 5-10 yards (not really significant) that I manage with my 11/32'  Douglas Fir arrows that have the same weight (524 grains) but are 1.5" longer than the ash arrows. These first two ash arrows with field points have a bit more streamlined fledging than the 11/32' so that might account for the increased distance and the smaller diameter likely contributes as well.

I finally purchased a spine tester and the spine of the flu flu arrow is 42, the hardwood point arrow is 37, the field point one (with turkey tail fledging) is also 37 and and the other field point one with primary feather fledging has a spine value of 41.

I have tested my other unfledged and unpainted ash arrows and they come in with the following spine values:

1 x at 50
4 x at 47
1 x at 44
1 x at 40
2 x at 37

So most of the values are below where I originally estimated them. I think the ones grouped at around 47 are still decent values considering the small 5/16 diameter of the arrows. The ones at 37 are too low for the bows I am shooting but still seemed to perform surprisingly well (nice and straight and good velocity) when I shot them in comparison to my other Douglas Fir arrows. I believe 5/16 is a good diameter for these arrows in order for them not to get too heavy.

I think the variation in the spine is explained from:

a) slight difference in diameter from fine adjustment of dowel tool during the process (they are all at 5/16 or just slightly under)
b) number of growth rings in the wood

I will be aiming for a spine value of around 45 - 50 in my future ash arrows (after the fine adjustment they were quite consistent) and if I want to make some really tough ones in the 55-60 spine weight range I will just increase the diameter of the arrow blanks to 11/32.

Cheers,

Phil

 

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