oak shafts

[wolfkill220]

#5444

anybody use oak for arrow shafts local hardware store has 3/8 oak dowels on sale figured if do a barrel taper both ends to 11/32 could make some nice arrows out of them but havnt heard much bout oak for shafts

[Greg Ragan]

#41296

wolfkill220 wrote: anybody use oak for arrow shafts local hardware store has 3/8 oak dowels on sale figured if do a barrel taper both ends to 11/32 could make some nice arrows out of them but havnt heard much bout oak for shafts

I made a set of 3 from Red Oak once. They were fine arrows and a nice heavy weight. They were also tough and stayed relatively straight. Finding a decent board with no runout is the hard part with oak.

[David Petersen]

#41404

I have some compressed to 21/64 that I killed two elk with (same shaft in fact) years ago, using 125 gr. heads. For heavy weight and toughness they are great. But that weight works against FOC (which I didn’t know about back then) and I found them very difficult to keep straight so quit using them. Perhaps thicker shafts would stay straighter but there is such a thing as too much weight. Today I prefer light shafts and heavy points to get the necessary weight.

[Greg Ragan]

#46199

I found some pics of the 3 red oak shafts I made.

[Stephen Graf]

#47677

Those are some mighty fine looking arrows! In fact, I’d say they look Oak K to me 😳

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