Nothing better than homemade arrows. Love me some thick 23/64 shafts. I can smell the cedar and clear blue lacquer already. That lacquer is toxic. I never met but heard of a local arrow builder who passed away early from lung cancer. One has to think if the exposure to all the lacquer over the years, had something to do with it? I don't know if he used a face mask or not. These raptor arrows shoot beautifully. I was in a pinch a few years ago and ordered some of these and yeah there's something to be said for someone who makes arrows all year long! A master at their craft. They shot great.

Nicolas Del Angel Loera Wood arrows will work fine in a hunting bow. I know people who use wooden arrows in bows that have 100lb pull. These are traditional long bows, though.

I know I'm 5 years late but to answer your question for the type of trees you want you want to have a light straight grained wood all areas are different so the best way I've found to get a rough idea is to find the spices of tree that grow in your area and buy dowels of the same size and diameter to the arrows you want and just weigh and check the grain of the dowel then after you find a candidate buy or mill the wood ( I personally use quarter Sawn wood it do not warp) take it to a lathe and make the shaft or lacking a lathe use a spokes plane get it to the right size and taper you want as for finding grain weight and spine stiffness I don't know I am still learning myself so take what I say with a healthy grain of salt any way if good luck and if you found any good tips yourself I would love to hear them

+Franco Nero 32" shaft makes a 31" back of point arrow

Really depends on the persons size , what is the standard length of a person? On average the standard draw is 28" but very rarely is that true all the time.

Yeah but how well do their arrow fly?

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I buy the heaviest spined cedar arrows I can get. One time I was trying to order some heavy spined port oford from some shop online. .the guy asked about my bow specs and my recurves range from #35 all the way up to #55. I told him I wanted the heaviest spined shafts and he told me the #80-85 was out of stock and then I was like alright the next highest..out of stock, alright the next highest, out of stock, he asked me what poundage I'm going to be shooting and I said about #45. He was like you are way over spined and im like okay buddy. I think there's a reason all your high spined cedar is outta stock, because guys know what they want. They want some tough shafts. My uncle uses the 23/64 80-85 spined cedar arrows out of his #35 Herters and they launch quiet, fly straight as can be, and hit like a freight train.

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I think that would be too thick and heavy to shoot out of any bow...

Clint Crabb haha! that's not what I meant. I mean how to make a normal sized arrow out of a tree.

Another ignorant person in the world !