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Grunt:
Still cannot find that sweet tonkin boo arrow I bounced of my target into the rhododren patch two days ago. It snowed 16" last night. Might have to wait till spring. I'll keep looking.
Pat B:
The nice thing about cedar shafts you can loose them under the leaves for a year or two and the wood is still good. The feathers are off and usually the field point is only rust but after a few days of drying and a little straightening it is ready for new fletching and point and to be shot again.
The arrows I put the most work into, sourwood shoots, are rotted in a few weeks under the leaves. >:( Cane rots pretty quickly too.
Postman:
Heckuva storm, eh Grunt? we got close to 20 up here in VA. hope you don't get the ice we're supposed to.
Grunt:
--- Quote from: Postman on December 24, 2009, 12:19:54 pm ---Heckuva storm, eh Grunt? we got close to 20 up here in VA. hope you don't get the ice we're supposed to.
--- End quote ---
I've got little paths shoveled to the firewood pile, the garden shed, my others pottery studio, my studio and my targets. I'm standing closer to the target with all this snow. I'm also shooting some pretty worn arrows incase I have to go looking for another one. Got a little ice last night.
SSGN_Doc:
For stump shooting I've been using poplar dowels sanded to proper spine, self nocked, and fletched with spiral flu-flu made from feathers from a craft store and tipped with a lead weighted .38special casing. The shafts get spray painted with flourescent orange. Hard to loose, but when I do, or when they break I'm out conisderably less money. Shafts are .59 cents to a buck a piece, .38 casings are ones that have already been shot and reloaded to the point that they are hardly serviceable. Lead shot is cheap and a bag will last darned near a lifetime for this purpose. A bag of 3 whole feathers cost a buck fifty and can fletch 6 arrows (3 right hand and 3 left hand twist.)
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