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[Tartar Horde]

It's all about the Cams on a compound and like you say a modern compound with severe cam profiles would be a bit "iffy". You can use Wooden shafts but like I said you would have to do some testing regarding spine rating to get them flying right. A traditional bow imparts all its energy at once to the arrow in a linear motion, and hopefully smoothly, but that depends on limb profile etc. A compound has a steep power curve where the initial string speed might be slower but very quickly after those Cams "kick in" the string accelerates quite rapidly. It is this rapid "punch" that can stress a Wooden shaft beyond safe limits. This can happen with modern Carbon/Alloy shafts that are defective/damaged as per the image on post #2. Now if you are talking of moderately rated Compounds 50lbs draw weight and below then we have a much reduced chance of Wooden shafts failing due to shaft stress, but I wouldn't want to test it.

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Talon "Either way it's the recurve for me I'm currently waiting on my Tradtech Titan ll riser to arrive"Rolleyes.


Nice riser Talon you wont go far wrong with TradTech. I've got a few one piece Recurves in 58-60 inches and they are bullet proof never let me down, but I love my Mongol & Korean bows, Bamboo arrows and Thumbring.

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