Didn't want to clutter up Jinkster's thread, so I thought I'd start a new thread showing your wood arrows and/or animals you've taken with your "lovely wood arrows" wood be appropriate. Please, no bashing of carbon and aluminum arrows. :)

Yep! they are the best

they give you that warm fuzzy feeling

Ron, those arrows are really nice, and that 4x4 buck and 6 pt bull are as good as it gets for your Cascades. Truly remarkable achievement with the stick and string. I'm very envious!

Wood arrows do have a soul.

Well said and done Ron! I couldn't agree more. Very nice arrows and critters!

Hey Ron....wood you explain how you get the white dip on those arrows with the blue feathers? What do you use for dip?

NICE critters to!!!

I love this Ron,

Yohon, Mine are no match to Rons beautiful arrows, but I use Tru North arrow dip, I made my own tubes from PVC.

Ron is one of the masters on this site.

I knew this thread was coming in the wake of " hard to love" thread. And that's cool, good food for thought on the other thread, and I'm sure this thread will produce a lot of eye candy and good pictures. Ron, you build some really sweet woodies man.

The ones I make are considerably less elegant, but they work.

Texas pig last year- Surewood Steve sent me some especially heavy for spine fir for this trip. Not really necessary though for the small sow.

I build my own wood arrows Ron but they are not as nice as yours. Cedar for deer.

OK, I'll play. Here's a set of Surewoods that match the 1954 Grizzly I rehabbed.

Ash or maple for elk.

one of my 2017 bucks. That's the business end of a Doug Fir shaft from my 59# 1953 K-4.

Buck and a doe- a good afternoon. I wish these pictures weren't sideways.

Like Dendy, mine aren't as elegant, but they sure fly nice. These are Chundoo and they will be looking for feathers or spots this weekend. (relax guys- not fawns, free range Axis).

-Bones

Woodies shoot straight for me when I do my job. Here's a group of 60-65# spine, 610 grain tapered doug firs (Surewood shafts) shot from the 59# 1953 K-4 at 25 yards. The low one is the last shot, which I chickened out on and dropped after nocking one in the center with the previous arrow. This was a particularly good day (we know they're not all like that!).

These I made really plain. Hickory shafts ( no crown or cresting ) with self nocks and barred feathers.

1955 52# Grizzly, rehabbed, new grip and set of matched tapered doug firs.

Love my wood arrows this is a buck I shot with my woodies. Build some woods then go hunt with them. Tundra

Here is picture Elk hunting in Colorado with my woodies. was using a # 160 grain two blade on them.

Tundra

Great thread guys. Wood arrows worked well for a long, long time and they still do. I think the ones who don't believe that either have no experience with woods or have been told something by someone with no experience.

Nothing like Dougy firs on tree rats

54lb. Gene Louthian TD static recurve and Twig Archery 5/16 dia. "Penetrator" wood shafts. From some type of imported hardwood. Sadly no longer sold.

60lb rd longbow and Twig Archery tapered hardwood shaft. The only shafts I fletched with four feathers. 1995

Cedar

Dis about like looking at one of the ARROW threads! YUM!

Cedar...REAL barred wild turkey fletching!

Here's a 54# 1953 K-4 which I rehabbed, mounted a new grip and built matched tapered doug firs for.

Nothing wrong with how this vintage POC shaft (used to make new arrows) flew from 40 yards. With a 45# Kodiak Special Deluxe.

Finally, you need nice quivers to carry those woodies in! This one's from Cedar Ridge.

Love them all !!!

These vintage shaft new POC arrows worked pretty well from 30 yards also, w/a 40# 62 Kodiak.

I ONLY use wood arrows. Not because they shoot better... I wouldn't know since I've only shot one or two carbon arrows... but because I just like using wood arrows! There's enough hi-tech stuff in life. Arrows don't have to be one of them.

This is a self-nocked wild rose arrow, tipped with a trade point and lashed on with sinew.

Douglas Fir

Oregon, I make arrows too so I don't buy. That means I will never have any as artistic as yours. Beautiful. Nice arrows and good looking animals everyone. >>>----> Ken

German spruce with Merriam's feathers:

A vintage cedar arrow I had since the 1970s. Still straight after all these years.

Douglas Fir. Full penetration, 45#

Some more German spruce with just cocks from the same bird:

Nice arrows guys, haven't made any woodies since PB hijacked all my pics. Planning on ordering supplies soon, though.

LOL!....I made some Doug Firs one time...

They were for this bow...

all of'em...

Don't have any Purdy ones to share but, I have shot alot of laminated birch. All except one sharp angle were found on the other side...very tuff when they were going straight...sideways not so good.

Great looking arrows guys! There's nothing that screams "traditional" more than a beautiful set of wood arrows!

Bernie (formerly Catalpa)

Cedar

Beautiful wood arrows and animals taken with them guys, love it!

I really prefer plain & simple. Just me, but if they are too fancy, too much work involved, I will be afraid to shoot them! I've had a few, always end up leaving them home.

But quality counts; best batch of old Cedar shafts, really cool Goose feathers, and special speed nocks that are sturdy and solid.

Another blacktail buck taken with a wood arrow and Blacktail recurve.

More plain Janes that I whipped up enough of that I can grab a handful anytime.

Just can't beat good old growth cedar. I have stacks of arrows of all kinds in the basement. I shoot whatever suits me all summer, but when deer season comes around the only arrows in my quiver are wood. Something about a cedar with a broadhead on the end, just beautiful.

Man this is an awesome thread. No arguments, no FOC debates, no know-it-all- isms, just beauty and fact. Pictures tell the truth and I love to see animals taken with good ole wood arrows.

I just finished up 60 doug fir arrows a week ago. Early this past week I found a superb AAA piece of 8/4 cedar 12' long. I could NOT believe how perfect the grain was. I got so excited like a kid in a candy store when I started ripping blanks. Just freaking unbelieveably perfect grain.lol Now mind you i'm 63. So, I am starting a new batch of 100. Yeah...they are that addictive to make. These shafts are sooo sweet. Any arrow will beat a 'crap grain' wood arrow, but NO synthetic arrow gonna beat a good wood arrow to a die hard traditionalist like myself. New arrow materials just don't even begin to cut it...and dats jest be da way it is.

Some of my first POCs. I still like carbon and aluminum also. But there is a wonderful world of all types of wooden shafts.

Wow, I must have died and gone to heaven, this is looking like a real archery site.

Thanks Ron for starting this and thank you everyone for posting, really nice arrows and game taken.

(((((Man this is an awesome thread. No arguments, no FOC debates, no know-it-all- isms, just beauty and fact. Pictures tell the truth and I love to see animals taken with good ole wood arrows. ))))

I agree Sawtooth, isn't this great.

Some I've made through the years.

Just wood in my quiver..

Jinkster, I like that pic above. You finally showed us a sweet bow!

Thanks to the man who started this thread wood arrows are very easy to love.

firekeeper: That was a 42# American Elm Mollegabet made by Brad Segadeth?...it was definitely a fun bow to shoot as it could be shot off-the-knuckle left, right or inverted! LOL!

I actually got that bow shooting those Doug Firs "Bare Shaft"...was pretty proud of that.

But behold?...I have a new strung stick headed my way...suitable for wood arrows! LOL!

Sweet!!

BUT,,,,,,,,whats the glass on the back look like?

; )

Jinks may I suggest some breasted ceders from Jim Curlee for that new Jet

Mountain Man: the glass on the back looks like this...

Boy tou sneak that carbon in where ya can dont ya. ; )

Nice Jet Premier i like my lepard

MM: lil bit. ;)

I used some POC and a John Strunk yew selfbow years ago on this old blacktail buck.

Surewood douglas fir arrow and Blacktail bow used to take this blacktail buck posed in front of an old growth douglas fir tree.

Nice TK! Wish I could hunt where you hunt! :)

A few I shot through the years. I made six of these banana fletch cedar arrows. Five of the six arrows I killed five bucks with. I love cedar arrows.

Another one shot with cedar.

Great thread

Beautiful work everybody! Mine aren't nearly as artistic, just good ole fashioned " meat and potatoes".....but they sure do fly good!

I made 63 red cedar shafts yesterday with my Veritas doweler. At leat 75% are 70-75 pounds, perfect for my #55 grizzly. About to cut them to length and grind tapers with my Woodchuck. So yeah, I love wood arrows.

Keep this going. Woods shoot very well and quiet

Keep this going. Woods shoot very well and quiet

Here's some Custom Woodies LW Member JusPassin made me a couple years back...

For my Timberpoint Kraken long something...LOL!

Some vintage wood arrows for your enjoyment

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Some classic Bear Reproductions

These are some “Arrow of Light” arrows I did for my nephew’s Boy Scout troop. I saw pinstripes for days. Each colored band denotes some type of milestone. Never a Boy Scout so I don’t really know what each band represents.

It may be possible to have too many wood arrows

More late 50s Bear Reproductions made with old growth Acme Premiums that I sent off for tail tapering

I love wood arrows!

Very nice, Trap!

Got blunts and nocks on half of them. Need to get order into 3 rivers for schtuff.

Dang if these don't bareshaft perfect. Dead straight flight smack into my spot. In fact flight is so good it's almost nerve wracking// I might screw them up somehow. lol

These are some really beautiful pictures guys! Thanks to all who have posted here!

Dang trap! ThAt is impressive.

Wood arrows = a young Marilyn Monroe

Carbon arrows = a young Rosie O'Donnell

LOL...good one George!

You can Robin Hood them too.

And kill wabbits with them.

Arrows I made just for my hog hunt.

Here's some more from my end...nailed this shot years ago with my Falco Trophy longbow...

and that was with Kustom King cedars...

but not the ones with the 110gr Magnus 2-Blade...

This is how my RMS Gear Cedars came out when I finished them up...plain but clean...

They even sport real barred cock feathers I sourced from Jim Casto....still have these arrows and yep.....I love them...best woodies I ever had and shot...

Richard I love those arrows with the red, black and white combo. Great stuff!!!!

Thanks Daryl. I should shoot them more often but they are spined for a 50# 62 Kodiak and I'm shooting low 40s these days.

Here they are out in the bush.

I love the smell of cedar in the morning! Smells like......VICTORY!

A recent development. Cedar arrow.

-Bones

Shot them years ago and back to shooting them again for the last few years.

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