What do you use as arrows?

[Brokestick]

I think I'verun into some diseased wood.  I found some yesterday that seemed a whole lot sturdier.

[Justin Snyder]

Sometimes Ill see some that gets a black stripe while drying.  It is usually garbage.  Justin

[Loki]

I've just finished a set of POC arrows what turned out quite nice,but if i want to make something special (Livery arrows) i use Poplar wood,nothing as pretty as a 1/2" Poplar Bobtailed War Arrow  .

[Brokestick]

I just cut some palo verde to experiment with.  It has that kinked growth like mesquite, but not as pronounced.  It had me curious because it likes to send up long shoots with no side branches.  The thorns were a whole lot like mesquite.  Anyone ever tried it?

[snakebow]

I've been useing cherry for the past 3 years and love it. They are heavy and usually require no straightening.

[Little John]

POC for matched sets and cane and bamboo for primitive arrows. I love the canes but can never get a perfect matched dozen.   Kenneth

[Mechslasher]

i've used just about everything east of the mississippi for arrows but i always hunt with cane. 

[bootboy]

I use any shoots that grow straight enough and thick enough for an arrow. Just walk through the woods  with a knife. hahahaha

[theredbarn]

Here in the Pacific North Wet (AKA- WA state) I've been using a lot of Alaska Yellow Cedar. It splits almost as well as Red Cedar but it's a lot stronger.

[M-P]

I usually use purchased POC for matched sets to use at 3D shoots, but I've made arrows from scratch using western red cedar, sitka spruce, douglas fir, cane/ bamboo, witch hazel, some really good stuff I found in a neighbor's curb side garden waste pile ( wish I knew what it was cause it worked great) and purchased shafting of fir, ash, cherry, spruce, lodgepole pine and that hex glued pine from canada.   Ron

[Hartung]

I live in central Europe and have only bought pine arrow shafts once in my life. I don’t’ have the money to buy them any more but also like to make them myself with traditional arrow wood. I use the plants that are growing nearby. I preferably use dogwood, viburnum and Phragmites australis.

Dogwood because of its strength and availability and because it’s an historical arrow wood. Viburnum for the raison of it’s histories in Neolithic archery and because it’s light and strong. With viburnum it is however not easy to find straight shoots. In autumn I enjoy collecting thick walled Phragmites australis. I like it because it is super light and super fast and stays straight once straightened.

But as bootboy put it: one could use any shoots that grow straight enough and thick enough for an arrow. I just don’t have the time to try all of them 

[1/2primitive]

  It's Bamboo and Cane for me.That's about all I've been using.

Amen!   
    Sean