Surewood is good shafts. I've tried Poplar, Ramin, fir and cedar.
I think fir is my favorite too as far as wood shafts.
Seems pretty durable. I've shot wood, aluminum thru the years, shooting GT here lately.
Hard to beat a good tapered wood shaft though.
I have used carbons in the past but to be honest, I can fiddle with a wood arrow enough to where it flies perfect. I have never been able to do that to a carbon/aluminum arrow. There is only so much you can do with those. For example my chechen wood recurve shoots best at my draw length and weight with 580 grain arrows (including tip/broadhead). I have these at exactly 579.6. I tend to get a higher spine (75-80). That weight is with stain, cresting paint, 3 dips of finish, fletching, knocks, and heads. I've gotten it down to a well oiled machine at this point...plus its fun to create something like that and be able to actually kill an animal.
But yeah, Surewood shafts are some of the best I've seen. I'm anal about all this stuff with grain weight and you can order within 20 grains every time and they'll usually get it within 10.
