Has anyone here ever used Lodgepole Pine wood for arrow shafts? Sure would be interested in the thoughts and experience of anyone who has!

Has anyone here ever used Lodgepole Pine wood for arrow shafts? Sure would be interested in the thoughts and experience of anyone who has!

Chundoo as its called cause most would stray away from trying to make a arrow from pine is imo a great shaft. Will make a great hunting weight shaft that is easy to keep straight and can handle some tuff service from 3-d and stumping. Call and talk to the fella at Twig archery. He set me up with several dozen. He had lots of history to share with me and i enjoyed our time exchanged on the phone. I got the 23/64 shafts and i tail tapper them the last 9" or so. Makes for a fast recovery from paradox as i understand.

I’ve always preferred it to cedar. It seems more durable than cedar, and is heavier, which I like. For me, it is easier to keep straight. I have lodgepole arrows that I made almost 25 years ago and they still shoot great. Some years ago, it was also called chundoo.

I got I believe 3dz in 2004, my first experience with wood arrows. I didn't find out how really durable they where until I later tried cedar. I reserved my last dozen to judos & stump shooting only. I don't recall ever breaking one on any type if wood, and I'm talking numerous use! I still have 3-4?, that have been thru the worst treatment possible! It is substantially heavier, but easy to work with, when straight they stay straight! I've switched to cedar totally, but wish I had a ready supply of Chundoo, in spine I need now! But I love cedar, and dint mind breaking a few, they're tougher than their reputation! Only way I remember breaking a chundoo, is direct solid hit on rock, best arrow shafts on planet IMO!

Have been for years! I purchase them off Twig Archery. John runs a fine shop! Super durable.

As to pine, some of the best shafts I have are north German pine.

"As to pine, some of the best shafts I have are north German pine."

Yep....Pine shafts of one form or another have been used for many, many years.

Twig archery is kinda local to me and years ago bought some Chundoo shafts from him and actually killed a couple deer with them... I remember Chundoo as being the nickname of a species of pine, but can't remember the species, it could have been Lodgepole Pine and if I remember right it was a little heavier than Port Orford Cedar of the same dimensions...

"it could have been Lodgepole Pine".....yep

I use Douglas Fir shafts from Carson Brown. Great quality shafts.

It is lodgepole pine Zbone.

Have used Lodgepole in the past. Thought it was ok. Switched to Douglas Fir about 10 years age. Very satisfied with it. I get my Douglas Fir shafts from Surewood. Never had a bad shaft with the 10 dozen I have purchased.

I have more arrow made out of chundo than anything else, the major company that made them went belly up. I think someone still makes them but I am out of the loop now and don't look into such things.

When the company was closing, they sold boxes of 750 ungraded shafts for a really cheap price, $200 or so I think. One of my major regrets was I didn't buy one of these boxes of shafts when they were available.

Eric, I bought one of those boxes from Kelly Petersen when he lived in Idaho and made up a bunch of arrows from them in my various spine weights for my bows. They made good arrows, easy to straighten and pretty much staid straight. Kelly thought highly of them and said they were a tough shaft, probably compared to POC. My experience they aren't as tough as Doug fir from stumping and small small game abuse, but better than cedar. I still have enough to make up many dozens more in the light spine weights, which I am having to shoot more of in my older age.

Thanks guys!

Where we summer camp in northern CO there are thousands of beetle kill Lodgepole Pine, standing and fallen deadwood. Been thinking about making some wooden arrows from scratch. Now I know the source wood is worth the effort.

It makes great an arrow!,,,,

I have the milling equiptment for shafting lodgepole pine. I bought it form a well known bowyer several years ago, with the intent it would be my retirment gig and income.

I found it very labor intensive to make shafts, and process them correctly.

I have a great personal and family supply of shafts, but never got any further than a business name as far a producing them.

I gave away a few dozen, even did a leatherwall giveaway.

I learned that to be done correctly I needed to cut green trees and dry wood in stages that took a period of YEARS.

anyways that all said, I love lodgepole shafts, and have killed deer and elk and grouse with them, maybe a bunny or two =)

My wife and kids and their spouses all shoot lodgepole as do a few select friends.

There is still hope I could get into it but retirement has taken a different direction.

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Good shafts only down side is stain tends to get blotchy not a problem if painting though

My Lodgepole Pine shafts take stain beautifully, never had any problems.

Scuff them first they won’t blotch in fact like most pine stain colors pop with lodgepole

Yea the last ones I bought were from Kustom King when they were in lndiana They are nice they came from Germany

The ones from Germany are not Lodgepole Pine.

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