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Best wood for 450-500 gr, FOC arrows?

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WhistlingBadger:
Pappy, ordered some POC.  Haven't used it for a long time.  We'll see how it does.
JW, sent him a message. 
Robert, the spine issue is the main reason I have never gotten into shoot shafts, though I absolutely love the idea of making them from scratch.  I don't have a spine tester, and I don't have enough experience to get them right just by feel.  How do you get consistent spine on shoot arrows?  We have some nice raw materials around here, rose and chokecherry mostly.  Just don't know how to get them consistent. 

Robert Pougnier:
WB: I also don't own a spine tester. It's the next piece of gear I'd love to get!

I usually straighten extra shafts and bare shaft test all my arrow sets with the bow they are intended to be shot with. I keep ones aside that did not match and then group them with similar ones later once I test a different batch. I do some testing bending by hand but It does not help me much. It's invariable that there is quite a bit of variety there. I have not used timber shafts as much but I understand they can vary some too depending on grain orientation and density.

It's definitely a bit of extra work. But the rose shafts are very durable and never break since the grain is intact. I've had several shafts break over the years, but the only shoot shaft to ever break on me were viburnum.

Chokecherry is really good as well, I like it almost as much as rose and it can be easier to find good shoots as they grow in larger patches more commonly than rose. I think if you were to have a few bundles of dried rose or cherry shafts on hand you would inevitably get the bug to try them at some point, I totally recommend giving them a chance!

WhistlingBadger:
I guess the way to do it with shoots would be to tune each arrow individually.  That would be time consuming but probably worth it if it resulted in scratch-made, indestructible arrows.  I'll give it a try one of these days.

JW_Halverson:
I broke down and bought the Ace Spine Master, their SIMPLE spine tester. It was a hundred bucks at the Tennessee Classic, but I was stupid enough to wait until the last day to buy one and he had sold out, even the floor model he was using to show how it works! It was still worth it to buy it off the website acearcherytackle dot com.

I do see they are up to $130 now. But still cheaper than the complex $350 ones!!!

Pappy:
WB it dose take some time but worth every minute, I do that with all my shafts especially shoot shafts or any kind of Cain. Kind of fun to me and even more fun when you finish with a dozen arrows that you have confidants in and  all do the same thing.  ;) :)
 Pappy

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