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Mesophilic:
Completed my first batch of shoot shafts, made from wild rose shoots.  I still have two more raw shafts but I need to turn down the dismeter a little more, right now they're pretty thick and definitely war bow spined.  I haven't put any cresting or finish on them, wanted to see if they were worth all this trouble first.

Out of the five, three of them shoot excellent.  The other two are too heavy spine.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but for a right handed shooter, shooting split finger Mediterranean,  arrows impacting left of POA means spine is too heavy, right?

On one of the heavy spined shafts I started scraping and sanding the diameter down, but as I did this it kept shooting higher and more left until it missed the target bale all together.   Should I have just scraped the strong side? Or just the weak side?

StickMark:
On that one arrow going left, that happens with shoots sometimes.  Some shafts just kinda want to miss, no matter what. If I see that, I break them. Maybe some flaw buried in the wood messing the flight.

PaSteve:
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but for a right handed shooter, shooting split finger Mediterranean,  arrows impacting left of POA means spine is too heavy, right?"
Yes, you are correct. I also agree with what StickMark said about some shoots just don't fly straight for whatever reason. It'll drive you crazy at times but I guess that's the nature of wood. Arrows look nice btw.

Mesophilic:

--- Quote from: StickMark on December 07, 2019, 09:19:10 pm ---On that one arrow going left, that happens with shoots sometimes.  Some shafts just kinda want to miss, no matter what. If I see that, I break them. Maybe some flaw buried in the wood messing the flight.

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I suppose this works out ok.  In the spring I want to destruction test a couple anyway, to see if they hold up better under profanely low humidity and high elevation than the other wood and bamboo shafts I've used.  At least this way I don't have to destroy the good ones.

Pat B:
Have you tried shooting the arrows that don't shoot well with the cock feather in. I and others have found that some shoot and cane arrows will shoot well if you do this. Generally the stiff side of the arrow goes against the bow but in some cases flipping it over will allow it to shoot better.

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