I have a problem. I want to make make shoot arrows that are consistant in performance. I feel I have tried it all....measuring spine, weighting and straightening hours on end....I just cant get say, 3 arrows that perform close to what I get from bought doweled shafts.
Im at the point of giving in to bought dowels:-(. I have soo many shoot arrows now, but not two are the same....even arrows that seem to be in the same ball park spine wise, give wildly different results downrange. Looking down the shafts I can see some undulation, but overall they are "straight'ish". Will it help much to remove these inconsistancies/undulations....or should I focus more on spine and getting the spine orientation right (shot shafts seem to have funny spine behaviour)?
I use Hazel, Dog wood, wild rose and Kolkwitzia amabilis....I seem to get the best results from the latter.....Hazle are second.
Cheers
PS: Its very important to me to use local species, so cane and boo is out of the question.