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Papa Matt:
Jape,
 
If you don't have success with what you're trying now, let me know. I could send you some nice shafts and just ask that you pay the shipping. I'm in Indiana, and have found a local hardware store that sells hardwood dowel rods that work real nice for arrows, and I have never broken any.

-Matt

wanabehunter:
I bought hand selected poc shafts.. I have 3/12 left... they all split or broke... im very unhappy with them.. it almost made me want to buy aluminum  >:D ... I have poplar shafts I bought at lowes.. The only ones that have broke were on purpose when I was testing them.. shooting trees (like 15 times!) shooting cement ect... you can find good ones!

I'm set up a spine tester and go to lowes for my shafts... forget 4$ a shaft.. lowes is 70 cents...

Ive spent more on making arrows then I have my bow.. lol I bought a blitz jig for 70$, feather chopper 18$, field tips 12$, broad heads 20$, Feathers 30$, hand selected poc shafts 41$

one doz arrows..  41$+12$+20$+30$ over 100$ :S

scattershot:
The fact that your shafts break in the bale indicates to me that they are not impacting straight. I believe you are overspined by a bunch, particularly on the 35# bow. Try a lighter spine, and maybe shoot a bareshaft or two to really get an idea what's going on.

Give that a try and get back to us.

Good luck!

mullet:
  Definately, go for the bamboo. They are almost indestructable.

jape:
Looks like the boo and some hardwood dowel is the go then. I will miss the smell of cedar!

Matt, that is really generous, thanks for the offer. I can get rod here cheap enough when I next drive down to the city so I wont take you up on it but I really appreciate your kindness. I will try that idea along side of the bamboo. I'm hoping  the boo will work as it grows next door for free!

Scattershot, these are all individually bare tuned shafts to the bow. That is why I got the heavier spine for the Longhorn 45/50 for a 45 bow - but two of those broke in an hour of being made. I just think POC doesn't hold up to my bad form and is not that good a shaft material these days, maybe the old timers selected from slower grown trees or something. Or are you saying I should go for the next spine group up than is usually the case? Say a 50/55 for the 45 bow and the 40/45 for the 35 longbow?

Another archer posted recently in a local forum that he broke six POC in a week when any went a bit sideways, breaking in the shaft near the fletch, not just at the point, which confirms my thinking and inspired my post here as I had just that morning broken two. Yes, we may have bad form, but the number breaking shouldn't be so high, or else beginners shouldn't use POC!

I guess my overall feelings of annoyance at poor materials and uncaring practises of some sellers has made me more intolerant than usual. The POC supplier when I enquired about the large weight difference just said that is how they come and they don't have time to sort them and the VA supplier sent me more (which I then paid for, my choice) when I complained. He reckoned the weather difference warped the shafts. Maybe, but I reckon he should have wrapped them better then. On reflection, we could all add up the bad stories and forget the good ones.

And alongside of the bad stories, there are some very helpful and kind souls amongst archers, sorta makes me feel less like a grumpy old sod!

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