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New to arrowmaking, question?
JackCrafty:
You might find good Yaupon shoots growing along the trails in the local greenbelts. There probably isn't much, though....there's a lot more if you go East. I have a friend who has wooded acreage in Lockhart and he's got a bunch of it.
xin:
There is a yaupon growing in front of where I live that has turned into a small tree and it probably has a dozen arrows in its crown. Yaupon, when fully seasoned, makes a very hard dense arow. The Commanches routinely used yaupon as well as the Caddo.
captyn cron:
Totally glad I stumbled upon this thread. I would have never thought of using yaupon either and it grows everywhere round here!
Pat B:
Any woody shoot material will make an arrow. Some are better than others. For hardwood shoot arrows I prefer sourwood and viburnum but have made arrows with maple, willow, spice bush, red osier dogwood, silky dogwood, gray dogwood, red twig dogwood and a few others.
xin:
Pat B, Interestingly enough, the only wood you mentioned that Captyn Cron and I have available is willow and Maple. The only maple occurs in lost Maples State Park where if you were caught cutting a shoot you would be summarily skinned alive, disembowled, skin and bowls burned before you in a fire of the aformentioned Maple shoots, and then executed by lethal injection in our very active social justice machine.
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