I live in the Missouri Ozarks where we don't have anything but hardwoods and flint rocks so it's important to me to have an arrow that can take a beating. Hickory is probably the toughest hardwood shaft but it is very, very heavy. I like ash a lot and used it for years until my supplier went out of business. The red balau and mahogany that I get from Forrester Wood Shafts is second to none, though. They are both very tough. The other great thing about those woods is that the grain is so tight on them that you don't have to worry about properly aligning your nock to the grain. You just glue it on and go.
The vast majority of my bows are in the poundage range that you are shooting and none of them have a problem slinging a 700 grain arrow.
Darren
Hardwoods for hunting and stumping
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Re: Hardwoods for hunting and stumping
Nice.... thanks for the info