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.