Paul, I started out with 12 hardwood shoot and cane practice arrows and I am down to 5 now.
The down side to hardwood and cane is a lost arrow is gone for good. They rot quickly. Cedars, on the other hand are never lost just misplaced. You can find them under piles of leaves, wet, feathers gone and the field point almost rusted through and after a few days of drying out, some new fletching and point, it will shoot again. I, however, feel better offering my hard earned arrows back to Mother Nature in hopes she will reward me this fall.
There are plenty more shoots and canes out there and enough obsession on my part to make plenty more arrows.
Pat