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Bone Arrows?

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bushman:
Mark, I have seen a few pictures of arrows from the Inuit that where half bone and half wood. They used those type of arrow for shooting seals with a form of a harpoon tip on it.

Marc St Louis and Hillbilly, It would be heavy yes, but I was planning on using it for fishing, since the arrows they sell for shooting fish are sold fiberglass thought that would be heavy as well.

Hillbilly:
We want to see pics when you're done.

recurve shooter:
verry seriously doubt it would work. if you had solid bone 28 inches long, maby, but i dont see how you could get a solid joint in a piece of bone that small.

Justin Snyder:
I haven't found much information yet. Reading on a couple of Quebec museum and university websites, there were some arrows made from bone lashed together. More often the arrows were made with drift wood shafts, and bone or ivory foreshafts. All of the arrows were very short because of the scarcity of material. Justin

Dauntless:
A couple years back I saw a documentary on the polar Inuit (reaaaaaaaaally far up north) and there were some hunters using bone arrows on musk oxen.  It was a reenactment though... 

A heavy arrow would work best with a short, heavy draw.  A bit like a crossbow.

You could probably get nice long pieces from the metatarsal/metacarpal or the tibia on moose, elk or caribou.  A very straight section of antler could do the trick, it's bone too.

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