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Offline Bryce

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Re: ERC arrows.
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2013, 03:57:49 pm »
Squirrel you off vacation yet?
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Offline twisted hickory

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Re: ERC arrows.
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2013, 05:39:10 pm »
Quote from: asharrow on June 22, 2013, 10:58:34 pm
The mechanical properties reports on the Forest Products Laboratories site bear out my experience with E. red cedar and western red cedar: very wimpy wood. ERC is about half as stiff as POC and wrc  is about 11/17 as stiff as POC.

If you leave them a full 3/8 diameter, they will still be pretty weak. If it were otherwise, all arrows would be made of western red cedar--it's plentiful and wonderfully straight.

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They might make some decent kids arrows cut to 24" and left 5/16?
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Re: ERC arrows.
« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2013, 10:21:40 am »
I know that ERC arrow shafts from Iowa red cedar are too weak spined for even a 40 pound bow.
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