My first wood arrow.

[Guss]

I was at the hard wear store last night and picked up two 3/8s dowels (rammin wood, I have no idea how to spell that). I spent the rest of the night practicing straighten them and put some sweet self knocks on them. To tell you the truth it was easy and they are strong. I just hand spined them and they seem to be close. Getting the points on without a tapering tool was not that easy but I managed. I got to shoot them this morning and was impressed. The first few shots with my glass bow were not good, I missed the target 3 feet to the left. I then shoot them on the Osage bow and they flew nice. Both bull"™s-eyes from 20 yards, man the ark I put on them was great.

It was a blast putting those things together, and I was impressed with the results

[Arthur P]

There's a guy in our club that almost always uses ramin wood shafts. He likes it because the stuff is cheaper and more durable than cedar. I've shot some of his arrows and I think I'll be trying some ramin of my own in the near future.

[Guss]

They were .99 cents.

[Alex The Hawk]

Yep I learned that years ago, if you go to an art craft store they usually sell for around .69 Cents and are better quality, I recently picked up 120 from Ebay at $12.
Beats cedar any day.

[LBR]

I keep debating on whether or not to try that. I just hate the thoughts of having a bunch of shafts that I can't use--I'm a pack-rat and hate to throw anything away that somebody might be able to use. Any suggestions on what size will run in the 75-85# spine range? I'd like to get some for hunting, stumping, etc. Can't see ramin replacing my POC for tournaments, but I've got 14 or 15 dozen POC's--enough to last a couple of seasons at least.

Chad

[Alex The Hawk]

5/16 LBR just buy a couple and try them.

[Alex The Hawk]

Yep them ramin sticks kill fat does also.







Brian tags another with a Doug Rutter Bambo Backed Osage bow.

[LBR]

What I meant is, if I like them, I'll look for a deal on them--get a lot better buy on a bundle of a thousand or so. If I did that, chances are that I will only get maybe 25% usable shafts (if I'm lucky) because most will have to be culled due to grain, cracks, wrong spine, etc., then I'll have toseparate the ones that are left into groups by weight.After it's all said and done I have a wad of dowels that I don't need, and won't throw out. I dunno....probably cheaper in the long run for me to just buy them already sorted/weighed/spined. I like to tinker with arrows, but I don't have the time these days. Half the time I have to trade out with a buddy to get arrows made so I have something to shoot.

Chad

[Alex The Hawk]

That is why I buy a few at a time as I choose them, when I spined the 120 I bought ,I ended with about 4 different spines, but I sold some already starighten and dipped to others in my club, so I ended up making a good profit .