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Black Moshannon

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New field tipped douglas fir arrows
« on: January 21, 2021, 11:49:48 am »
I bought some Surewood shafts and made four practice arrows. I got the highest weight I could to match my wild rose shafts, something like 450-460 grains in my 55-60 spine weight. I added 160 grain field tips. One of the arrows I cut to 29 inches and put on the 160 grain tip and it did not fly well. I cut the rest of the shafts to 29.5 inches and they fly well with the 160 grain heads. I put a 190 grain field tip on the 29 inch arrow and now it flies well. These weigh in the range of 605 to 640 grains so they're close to wild rose weight. I have a lot more so these are now my standard arrows for targets requiring a field tip. Love them a lot

Offline Hawkdancer

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Re: New field tipped douglas fir arrows
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2021, 01:53:21 pm »
Nice looking set!  Shoot good!
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Black Moshannon

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Re: New field tipped douglas fir arrows
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2021, 04:52:20 pm »
Thanks Jerry

Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: New field tipped douglas fir arrows
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2021, 10:15:27 am »
Nice work

Offline PaSteve

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Re: New field tipped douglas fir arrows
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2021, 10:01:23 am »
 That 1/2" can make a significant difference. Glad you got it figured out. Nice looking arrows.
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Offline StickMark

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Re: New field tipped douglas fir arrows
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2021, 08:11:49 pm »
Surewood douglas fir shafts rock my world.  Love making mulefat shafts, using hill cane, but those douglas firs shoot real good.

Like you, I find that an extra half inch on shafting matters ( I weigh my Zwickies, and find that they are 133 grains starting out, and that sort of bothers me, given that I can spend a lot of time making matching arrows ).

But then again, can I "shoot the difference?"

Any case, nice shafts....