Well with the recent addition of the northern mist shelton it just didnt feel right putting carbons through it. With hunting season not too far off i didnt figure i would have time to build a set of arrows so for the first time i actually ordered some arrows pre made. I was browsing through rose city arrows website and down on the in stock on sale section i found a dozen of their extreme elite woodies in the correct spine and length i need and they already come with zwickey eskimo broadheads attached ( the full dozen has broadheads) for about $20 more than the broadheads alone would cost me. The only thing is that every arrow is crested and fletched a different color but for a set of hunting arrows i could really care less. Will probably pull the broadheads off a few and replace with field tips for practice and squirrels. Now i just have to go out to the marsh to harvest some reeds to weave a basket style quiver and ill be all set.
That Shelton will really do well with wood arrows. Shooting carbons outta that is bad juju :biglaugh:
Hope you have a good season with it!
Quote from: limbshaker on August 01, 2018, 11:17:54 AM
That Shelton will really do well with wood arrows. Shooting carbons outta that is bad juju :biglaugh:
Hope you have a good season with it!
i really lucked out finding this set. They are 1/4" shorter than the test arrows and the same spine. They are all mismatched colors but hey, itll add character. Now i just need to make a proper back quiver. Just need to decide between reed, cattail or the grape vine thats growing up the side of my house
I have only had a full dozen matching arrows in my entire life, lol. And they didn't last long after a squirrel hunt.
From then on I've just built em out of whatever I had. I usually end up with 3 or 4 that match :archer2:
That quiver is gonna be sweet. Post a pic when you're done.
Ill try to take pictures as i go along building it. Id like a back quiver but those things are expensive and i have natural materials available for free all around me
I always like to hear what other people are shooting. If you dont mind, what spine arrow and what poundage bow, etc?
Bow is a northern mist shelton 53# @ 28" drawing 27" and shooting 50-55# poc cut 28.5" bop and 125 grain points
Congrats on the decision to shoot wood through your new bow Justin! I think you'll like the way they perform. Good luck and hope you get to break one off inside a big ole buck! :goldtooth:
here they are. Cant wait to get them in.
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Nice! :thumbsup:
I couldnt pass up the deal with coming with 12 broadheads
Well i got my email with tracking info. It looks like they should be here on monday. Cannot wait.
Look forward to a shooting report. :thumbsup:
I still cant decide if i want to keep broadheads on all 12 or switch 6 out to field tips
When I get a new set of wood arrows I pick out the 4 best ones. Shoot all of them with field points and take the 4 that fly the best and are the straightest and mark them. Save those for broadheads and hunting. Keep the other 8 with field tips and judos for practice. That way when hunting season rolls around, you have nice fresh arrows with good crisp feathers. I don't know about you, but those 8 are looking kinda beat by deer season lol. They get promoted to small game arrows once the season opens.
That sound like smart doings!
I never had a "real" dozen matching arrows until my pops got me a set for Christmas one year. So they were kind of a big deal, and it was my way of making them last the longest because I knew I wouldn't get another set for a long time. I'd take 3 at a time and shoot them till they were broken or worn out. I had that dozen for a couple years.
And for whatever reason I've just done it that way ever since, even now that I can build a dozen rather economically.
I often splice feathers differently when I hunt or shoot anyway. I can tell which arrow I shot first. My pants don't match my shirt either. It's not a fashion show so I don't care.
Wood arrows to me seem like they belong traditional. Think you're gonna love em. Best of luck
With your party color arrows: shoot them all to check for flight, check your points and nocks for being on center and you may find that the heads may not be set all the same. Those kind of nocks can fit too tight on certain strings, you may need to take a little bit off of the pinch part with your wife's diamond finger nail file. Other than the typical checks when shooting arrows other people made, it would be a good thing to have a couple of matching blunts or Judo points for stump shooting for during the season practice. Cedar arrows can vary in weight, for most people these variations do not matter much with shots 30 yards and under.
The anticipation is killing me. Ive been watching the tracking as ups has slowly weaved their way across the country. The arrows have reached the distribution center 20 miles from here as of this morning and will be here sometime monday. Lucky thing is i am off work monday and tuesday so i will be patiently waiting by my door for the big brown truck.
Mismatched arrows show a couple of important things:
1. I shoot through many sets of arrows.
2. No matter how many sets I have , I match them perfectly and they all shoot exactly the same.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it! (Does anybody believe this junk?)
I will be sure to go through and check weight and spine on all of them but for the most part at hunting distances i dont see there being any issues with weight varience. My main concern is spine which hopefully they will be all within a respectable range.
Mismatched arrows arent a bad thing at all. You may find that your wood arrows have more of an individual identity than carbon or aluminum. I write numbers or symbols on my nocks to distinguish each arrow. Not huge variances, and it mostly only comes up with stumping or wonky target shots, but knowing each arrow is just part and parcel for woodies to me. Its neither good nor bad, just is. That many eskimos would last me my lifetime (I'm a terrible hunter), and for 125, my favorite woody tip weight, they are all I use. Just got a pack in the mail thursday in fact. I hope you enjoy your wood arrows, they're also all I shoot. I can't tune carbon to save my life and wood arrows just seem to be more agreeable for me (in addition to a terrible hunter, I'm a terrible tuner). Good luck!
Quote from: Cavscout9753 on August 11, 2018, 08:48:57 PM
Mismatched arrows arent a bad thing at all. You may find that your wood arrows have more of an individual identity than carbon or aluminum. I write numbers or symbols on my nocks to distinguish each arrow. Not huge variances, and it mostly only comes up with stumping or wonky target shots, but knowing each arrow is just part and parcel for woodies to me. Its neither good nor bad, just is. That many eskimos would last me my lifetime (I'm a terrible hunter), and for 125, my favorite woody tip weight, they are all I use. Just got a pack in the mail thursday in fact. I hope you enjoy your wood arrows, they're also all I shoot. I can't tune carbon to save my life and wood arrows just seem to be more agreeable for me (in addition to a terrible hunter, I'm a terrible tuner). Good luck!
well put. I bought these for hunting and as far as deer hunting goes this set should last me a good long while. I hunt heavily pressured public land so most years 2 to 3 shot opportunities is all there will be. Even at 3 shots a year if i dont get the arrow back in useable condition thats 4 years of hunting out of 1 set of arrows. Now for target and 3d i do plan on a properly matched set but thats for another day lol
Woodies came in today. I was surprised to find in the dozen 5 that were crested and fletched the same, 1 oddball color and 3 pairs of color matched mates. Within the dozen from heaviest to lightest there is 38 grains varience with the 1 oddball being heaviest by 11 grains over the nearest. Even with that weight difference all arrows shoot well at my point on distance of 32 yards (3 under with middle finger anchor) and stay within my 6"×6" label thats on my compressed straw bale. Nothing i can complain about. The 5 mates ill be pulling the broadheads off of and will use them as my 3d set.2 of the pairs with the brightest feathers/nocks will be getting sharpened up for season and the remainders im going to put tips on for squirrels
Doesn't get any better than that! Careful, woodies are a whole 'nother obsession and before you know it you'll convince yourself that you need matching set!
Im going to order some dio tubes so i can do my own. Im probably going to start with simple cap dips for now but plan to add a crester later on down the line
Good luck with those Justin. You're off and runnin'. :thumbsup:
Deno
I like having different color combinations, especially when tuning. If one of them is "off", it's easy to identify. There can be oddballs in any set of woods.