Just a heads up

Sherwood Shafts had bulk "Kimberly" shafts got a 100 for Dog arrows and stump shooting

they look very good and glad I ordered them

they are supposed to be a grade under the Hunters at a very good price

Nothing wrong with them at all and will be great for a cheap stumping arrow

I got some, too, Andy Man, and agree. The quality was much better than anticipated and will separate them out, with many making small game arrows/stumpers.

I've never made any arrows from Douglas fur. Might need to get me some 3540s. JF

Andy, what are dog arrows? For your Goldens to fetch?

C Styles- sometimes Biscuit decides he needs an arrow for personal use or when retrieving -

and the stump won't let go sometimes and I only get part of an arrow when he brings it to me

but He finds more under leafs and in briars that I would never recover to offset those that he helps too much on

Has gotten much better now that he is older and less excitable- amazing how fast he can find one with the nose

no way I would go get this arrow in January

But he couldnt wait to go after it

What a good puppy retrieving arrows by a retriever.

That's cool. That's a good dog.

What the heck were you shooting at?

MP

was shoting across the pond at stuff on the bank

and one did not make it

when we are out stumping anything is a target -if it wasn't for him I would be arrowless in a week

I’ve only ever shot cedar and would like to try some Doug fir one of these days.

They are tougher than cedar espically for rough stump shooting

and can't pencile sharpen tapers nees a sander

little more straightening maintenance (little)

cedar tend to break easier but stay a little straighter if 3-D target shooting think would go with cedar

but I mostly rove and like the toughness

just my basic thoughts

Douglas Fir Makes a great arrow. I've had a few dozen of them. Lost quite a few missing targets out back of the old place where I could shoot. If you missed a target it would go out into a mess of brush and evergreen trees. I would just write them off as lost.

A couple times, I shot a DF arrow into a brick wall by mistake. The broadhead ferrule split but the shaft was salvageable. Just trim back a half inch and retaper.

I told ya Andy that was going to be a great dog. Love it. Worth his weight in gold

Is that dog a gold tip retriever? Lol

Ha Ha

any arrow is retrieved

That's a heck of a deal on those shafts.

Ask a silly question….,

My primary bows are all #55@28”; my arrows are generally 27 3/4”.

Mostly I shoot RER LB, Howatt Bamboo Viper (#50), Howatt Hunter and sometimes a Bighorn TD RC.

Usually I shoot 500 + 200 gr points or 600 + 175; 2016 +125 or 1916 + 125; sometimes on the Viper I’ll shoot 1816 with 100 up front.

Stu’s calculator seems to work perfectly for me.

So should I just get 50-55 and call it good? Or would the smart money be to hedge #5?

I’d hate to have to go to heavy FPs to make ‘em fly Guud…

Eaglewing is a whole‘ nother animal….

Definitely 55-60 and maybe 60-65 if using 160 grain points or heavier. All of your bows are cut very close to center or beyond and you basically have a 28” bop arrow.

2x Kelly.

60-65 with 125 grain points

I'm shooting a 49#@26" ASL with FF string and 60-65 # spine cut 27" BOP work well

So what would you guys figure for an all-up weight of one of these Doug Fir arrows?

I guess I have always figured 125 grains was The Standard Point Weight… I don’t know how many feet/second an extra 25 or 50 grains would cost me… most of my 500s finish up at about 485, but around 500 grains oughtta work out…

But I guess you can always sand a shaft down to hit a desired spine…. And if I were to put my taper plane to use, I suppose that would reduce spine a bit as well, right? Probably ought to figure that into my equation…

I shot a #55 Grizzly for decades. I've made a couple hundred doug fir arrows, from boards. I doubt any were under 500 grains with 125 heads. Typically a shaft in the 50-80 spine range, with 125 minimum head, was around 550 grains and up to 600. As for speed loss with 50 grains, beats me. But I could care less about that at the short range I shoot.

I figured at least one of you guys would know the weight right off. ;)

10 GPP isn’t atrocious. And I just remembered that I have a few test-kit shafts around and a dozen woodies in the basement that I took in on a trade, so guess I’ll spine ‘em and shoot ‘em and see where that leads…

I just buy them spined in 5# groups and with in 10 grains or so of weight

then I stain dip and feather and points of 125 grains and they are what they are

they been working and I got bigger things to worry about

Corax the weight of DF just like other woods will very. Im shooting DF cut 29" BOP with a 160 gr head and most of my arrows are coming in around 635 gr. but I had my arrow guy build we another doz. this year and they came out at 585 gr. so thats a 50gr. swing. if you order you own arrows you can ask the supplier to tell you what weights he has if your trying to hit a given weight.

DJ

aren't douglas fir and "chundoo" the same thing? or am i hallucinating again? loved chundoo...shot lots of it before i started making all of mine out of poplar.

hallucinations again. i was thinking about lodgepole pine. sorry.

Love that picture

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