How to make Arrows

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Question, can I use wooden arrows in a 25 pound draw compound bow???

You mean like a recurve right? Not the pulley-driven bow?

If recurve YES, but match the spine to the poundage!

For compound I don't know is the answer.

For sure you should never use a fibre glass/carbon arrows with a longbow.
They can't take the shock-loading on the spine.

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Thank you, thats a real help,.. can you help me with information on a Jaguar recurve 175 pull Crossbow,... 17 inch arrows please

That's a good question.

Ok, I think if you bought a bunch of normal arrows (they tend to come in the range from 25 - 33 inch) and cut them down to bolt-size (17 inch say) you'd be then requiring to fletch the shafts as normal.

For the spine matching on crossbows that's interesting.

The following is my thoughts that are not certain...

I believe there's no archers paradox with crossbows (one of the reason's they are easier to shoot), but obviously you want the wood to withstand the shockloading of being shot.

One rough method of working out the equivalent spine for a crossbow to a bolt....

A longbow is roughly three times as powerful as a crossbows drawweight.
That is to say my 55 lb longbow is about the same as a 165lb crossbow.

However you'll be cutting down the arrow shaft to fit so that will mean a change to it's spine-strength. It's weaker the more you cut down *I think*.
So get some shafts made up and experiment 'carefully'.
I wear gloves when shooting...