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JackCrafty:
Spine before and after tapering.  Also, spine after shooting the arrows, if you shoot a lot.

Pat B:
Barrel tapering will allow for decrease physical weight without(or almost) effecting the spine. Flight shooters use them, I believe, for that reason.  I'm shooting mostly cane or hardwood shoot arrows(tapered from point to cock) and for self bows they are hard to beat. I get good bow clearance and good heavy hunting arrows...and both are almost indestructible.     Pat

adb:
Jack is absolutely correct. I don't personally use barrel tapered shafts, but that is the theory.  I don't think it's worth the extra effort. I use hexpine parallel shafts, and cane. But, if you want to fine tune, it's an option.

Minuteman:
I don't think Jack is " absolutely correct" . I think that he was expressing his opinion. Tapered shafts are one step up from parallel shafts in performance especially in hunting situations. If Parallel shafts were so much better than tapered why would folks taper them? Why would they cost more and people pay it?
 Jack can shoot what he wants but he was stating an opinion not fact. I can say that the tapered arrows I've fletched up and shot were more forgiving than parallel shafts and usable spine range seemed to be wider.
 Most of the arrows I make are parallel simply because I haven't come up with a real good way to taper them yet.
 "Any old stick can make a bow but a good arrow is a heap of work."
 

JackCrafty:
Hey Minuteman!  Why did you have to go and deflate my ego like that?  Dang..... :'(

Anyway, some might conclude from my comment about parallel shafts that I prefer parallel shafts or that I think parallel shafts are superior to all other designs?  Well, truth is, I prefer tapered shafts.

Huh?

Yep....I haven't used parallel shafts for years.  For me, barrelled shafts are more "natural" and fit better with my primitive equipment.  I'm also not trying out for the Olympics so the accuracy and consistency of parallel shafts is not a concern to me. The key word here being consistency.

And while we are on the subject, why is there a general lack of understanding of Olympic records, techniques, and equipment in the archery community?  Those guys are out there fishing while we are debating about the best way to dig up the worms. :-\

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