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Best wood for 450-500 gr, FOC arrows?

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WhistlingBadger:
Well, here's where I pay for not keeping better records of the various arrow woods I've tried over the years; I feel like I should already know the answer to this.

I want to make some arrows for my new bow, 450-500 grain finished weight, with 150gr heads.  Spine 40-45#.  So I need shafts of that spine that will fall in the 300-350 gr range.  Of course I want something that's strong and a good value. 

I like sitka spruce, but wowee it's expensive, if you can even find it.  Douglas fir is probably my favorite shaft, but it's pretty heavy.  Is POC my best bet for hitting this weight range?

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Pappy:
I use a lot of POC, I like 45/50 or 50/55 , if 50/55 I just leave a little longer to reduce the spine, I shoot 160 field points and broad heads and usually they come in 500/525, little more or a little less but close to that at finished weight.  :)
 Pappy

bentstick54:
I have been using 40/45 Surewood DF from Feathers and Wood when he’s setup at 3d shoots to save shipping costs. I can go through his shafts and find them in 350 to 360 grain weights at the full length 32”. With 125 gr points and cut to 28-1/2” back of point they come in around 475 to 480 gr total arrow weight.

JW_Halverson:
Go straight to Carson Brown at Surewood Shafts.

Robert Pougnier:
My favorite are wild rose shafts. They vary quite a bit for spine, but they are very dense and you can get pretty narrow shafts that are around 350-400 grains. If you find a nice patch (mine are in a couple of wet ditches) they can be pretty consistent from shaft to shaft. I use the 2nd and 3rd year floricanes.
With a 100 or 150 point and using the thicker/bottom as the hafting end they are consistently FOC by an inch or inch and a half. They also can grow with very little kinks and will stay straight once worked over with heat.

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