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Red Dwarf:
I am a little confused.
Could someone please explain to me, as a newcomer to archery, the pros and cons of the different shaft shapes eg. parallel, tapered, barrel etc., etc.?


Red Dwarf

Pat B:
A dowel is a parallel shaft. It is easier to make and shoots fine. A tapered shaft, usually tapering from the  point end(big) to the smaller nock end. These are more aerodynamic, less sensitive to draw weight differences and a broad headed arrow flies better with a weight forward shaft. Barreling is used to lighten the physical weight of the arrow without reducing the spine. It is fat in the middle and narrow on both ends. I'm sure others will chine in.      Pat

DBernier:
You about covered it Pat. I have found that my self bows shoot a tapered shaft the best, that is a tighter group. I have a 10 inch tapper on them. I am building a "new" tapering tool and will taper all of my shafts from now on. It is a fun process.

Dick

Pappy:
That is what I did to the Hickory shafts and man they shoot good,I done a 8 in. tapper to
start with and then went a inch futher at a time and checked the spine and it would loose
about 2/3 lbs.pre. inch of tapper till I got them where I wanted them.  :)
   Pappy

DanaM:
Pappy how did ya taper them?

Dick you know pictures are required of any new gadget ;) :) Its in the rules eh :)

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