I was just wondering if anyone else practices with bare sharfts. I keep a couple in my quiver and shoot them regularly when practicing. Any minor inconsistancy in form as well as proper bow tune will usually appear when shooting them (as compared with fletched arrows). Of course field points only.

Yeah i shot a rabbit the other day with one. They are pretty cool to just do whatever with

I only do that when I'm matching arrows to a bow--if I can get them to fly straight out to 20 yds or so, they get fletched. Shoot, I break enough arrows with fletchings on them![8D]

Chad

I'm too cheap to keep any bareshaft arrows around. If I've got a good shaft, it's gonna be fletched. But sometimes an arrow I lost months earlier, with the feathers rotted off, will show up in the lost arrow bucket at the range and I'll mess around with it some.

Bob i am like you. Every end I shoot 2 or3 bare shafts. Great feed back on my form.

I have ahandful ofbare shafts (tapered cedar of various spines) around here somewhere that I used for testingwhen I gota new bow. They used to see quite a bit of use, prolly too much, but I haven't shot em in quite awhile.