Respectfully, if you're OK with a modern upgrade to LB why not a modern upgrade to cedar? Today's AFBs have high tech carbon, fibreglass, plastic and "un-natural" woods like Diamondwood in their construction with limbs designed using computer programmes to determine the fastest possible limb profiles in order to produce the highest performance possible. They may share the traditional spirit of the longbow but that's about it. Carbon or aluminium shafts only help to make the most out of all these performance upgrades that you've paid for.I view AFB as being a modern upgrade to LB, so - if I were to shoot it - I wouldn't consider using anything other than wooden arrows.
And before anyone berates me for linking AFB and LB, have a read about how the modern AFB came about. See American flatbow (Wikipedia), for example. :knockout:
MattHawkeye,
These guys know far more about the topic than I do. Follow their advice - I will be, should I ever pick up an AFB.
Very true and even more shooting categories probably isn't a good thing. I just feel the field archery powers that be don't take a realistic view. On one hand high performance bow design and materials have become state-of-the-art yet the arrows remain in the middle ages. If the argument for the wooden arrow limitation is about keeping it trad then why allow bow designs that could not be achieved without these non-trad materials.Matt
I think it all has to do with limiting the number of different bow styles/classifications for competitions.... you can imagine the amount of medals etc. that would have to be handed out if every sensible combination of bows/arrows etc. was covered :knockout: