Traditional Archery Arrows

[zepplin.archer]

Hi people
I needed an advice on traditional archery (Indian Round), earlier we use to shoot cedar arrows, but i want to switch to aluminum... can we replace cedar arrows with Easton Trooper(fibreglass)?

[Bald Eagle]

BURN THEM!!!!! Fibre glass are worse than carbon for de-laminating and not as straight as alloy. U.S. archers are shooting carbon arrows with F/F strings off theiir bows!

[wingate_52]

No way! use traditional wooden shafts.

[gino]

dear lord, why would you want to shoot fibreglass over wooden arrows?!

They feel so much better to shoot in my opinion!

[Kae]

Fiberglass is nasty horrible stuff, Stick to wood

[Macbow]

I think the question is valid but it opens up a hornets nest of what is traditional. Who determines what is trad and at what point is trad no longer trad?
I shoot American Flatbows made of exotic wood laminates, carbon, bow-specific fibreglass, high tech glues and other man-made materials. Are they traditional? According to the IFAA I can shoot my expensive, turbocharged composite, reflex-deflex bow in the same longbow category as a yew selfbow. My Border and Blackbrooks have been tweaked to the max using the latest, newest materials available in the quest for more speed, stability and consistency. The performance of the modern AFB is approaching that of modern recurves. The latest prototype Border Harrier is unbelievably fast.
But IFFA longbow rules demand the use of wooden arrows. WHY? Because it's traditional? OK rules is rules and that's fine but I don't see the logic. IMO it's like a Grand Prix where F1 cars are made to run on skinny cross-ply tyres.
For ELB I can see the wooden arrow appeal - there's historical/traditional/aesthetic reasons why many archers choose to shoot ELBs and accept the limitations of what performance is available from a stick and string.
I think you should be allowed to shoot whatever arrows you shoot best - be that carbon, fibreglass, aluminiums or wood. Given the choice I'd shoot carbons anyday. Stronger, more consistent and no less traditional than my bows.

[provins]

Macbow,
Please delete that post before some one from the NFAS sees it.
There was about three months of wrangling and god knows how many pages of discussion on www.nfas.net last year on what actually constituted an AFB.
If they get hold of this it'll probably mean world war three is imminent.
But seriously the point you raise is very valid,when you consider the technology that goes into a modern AFB and yes we shoot wooden arrows out of them.
Wood is wood and by its very nature, however well matched a set of arrows are, they are all going to be different.
Not so with carbon or ally.
This could be,as you said,a reall hornets nest of discussion.
O woe is me.

[chris]

FIBREGLASS ARROWS dont grow on trees ya know!
i say keep real wooden arrows, besides i can make wooden arrows
chris

[gino]

Yeah, I wonder what would happen if I tried to cut a nock into a fibreglass arrows with my hack-saw....