stupin with woodies

[cody]

#6555

Ok so today was my first time stump shooting with wood arrows. Wow. Thats all I’ve got to say. They really impressed me. I figured that they would fly all to crap when they hit something hard or caught a deflection, but they really held together really well. Theres been talk on here about how wood is nowhere near as tough as carbon and I agreed, until today. So to any of the people that read this that are considering going to wood I say go for it. The kind members of these forums are the ones that talked me in to trying them and to all of people that helped me into it I thank you!

[William Warren]

#52564

Cody,

Glad you had some fun with your new wood arrows. I hope to get out tomorow afternoon and do some stumping too.

Duncan

[David Petersen]

#53147

Cody — while no doubt there are some hard-corps stumpers among us who use prime arrows for roving, for most of us, this is what we do with odds ‘n ends arrows we don’t want to hunt or do serious practice with, yet still are safely shootable. Part of the fun of stump-shooting is the care-free feeling that the arrows are expendable if broken or lost. If you want to make your stump arrows last a lot longer, you can cap the ends, 2-3″ with an aluminum arrow sleeve (then use screw-in heads). One of my favorite things is when an arrow splits or otherwise becomes unusable, but still has one shot left in it. I call it “air burial.” Assuming you have a safe place to do it — aim high and watch it disappear into the clouds. 😀

[George D. Stout]

#53466

There is no more decent an end to a wooden arrow than to have it shatter in a zillion pieces after colliding with a stump.

[Bloodless]

#53477

“There is no more decent an end to a wooden arrow than to have it shatter in a zillion pieces after colliding with a stump.”
George — May we too, like that funereal arrow, find such a happily sudden and poetical going-out party! The idea of “permanence” for anything, arrows or us, is the cause of endless, needless woe, past present “forever.”

Geeze … all of that from a dying arrow? George, you trouble-maker!:P Ol’ Bloodless

[cody]

#55885

Ha I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one that launches an arrow one last time. There is a bluff that overlooks a huge valley behind the house that I have shot mine off of. You can watch them fly for a really long ways.

David-thanks for the idea about the alluminum sleeve. I was thinking about drilling the end out so it will hold a HP insert from some Easton ST Epics and then use a carbon collar but figured it wouldn’t do much good. Would black electrical tape wrapped up 3 inches or so do the same thing? That stuff gets pretty solid when wrapped tightly three of four times.

[Pack]

#63462

If you really want a tough wood arrow, buy some of the purpleheart footed blanks from 3 Rivers. I use to just use the arrows I broke the ends off of to make the footed shafts, now I make all my shafts footed from the beginning. If you are just using them for stump shooting, they don’t have to be super precise. It is really not hard to do and makes an arrow so tough, it is unbelievable.

[Reg Darling]

#12507

I enjoy making arrows, so I have to break a few now and then to make room.

[Gilgtr]

#13431

I do more stumpin than hunting & target shooting combined. I enjoy as much as anything I do, although stumps are seldom my targets, preferring leaves, grass pods, and even take old turkey decoys into the woods and set em on a stick for shooting practice when it’s close to turk season, but now I hit a PLENTY of rocks! I used to use all aluminum, but converted over to wood just about 4-5 yrs ago. I believe compared to aluminum, wood is actually tougher! Aluminum hardly ever breaks but bends easily (2018’s-a very tough shaft) where’as wood survives or not and can easily be straightened. But now most of my stumping has been with chundoo-lodgepole pine which is a very tough wood. Cedar is what I’ve recently went too for hunting arrows, love everything about em, but they’re no doubt not as tough as chundoo, but much tougher than their reputation IMO! Wood? I love making em too and need to break more like Reg already stated!

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