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aero86:
i say too bad its too complicated to type mech..

Hillbilly:
Chris, I'm 110% with you on most things, but I hate a durn foreshaft, and find them to be worse than useless. I can make a new cane shaft, fletch it, and put a point on it quicker and easier than I can make, taper, and balance a foreshaft. And it don't break every time you shoot it like the foreshaft does. :)

Mechslasher:
steve, i'd be the first to admit foreshafts are a first class pain, but i just get a kick out of seeing them work like the ancients designed them to.  kind of makes me feel closer to the primitive life style.  i also agree that cane shafts are hard as hell to break.  i had one of eddie's hogs to fall on a jap boo arrow one time.  it bent into a "c" and it still didn't break.  the only cane shaft i have had to break is with the hog you helped me find and i think it chewed on it to break it.

Hillbilly:
Yeah, and it wasn't really broke, just kinda split. I was pretty impressed with the hog laying on it like that. I guess I'm with the ancients in my neck of the woods-the Cherokee didn't use foreshafts, either. :)

nclonghunter:
Hillbilly, that is interesting you mention the Cherokee didn't use fore shafts...I had the understanding that they did, but I'm OK with that.
I have wondered if the fore shaft was primarily used in the larger cane spears as an atlatl. Then, perhaps the fore shaft idea was carried over to the arrow, but it just seems to me that the small diameter needed to make it insert into the end of an arrow makes it too weak and subject to breaking. I will continue mine arrows without using the fore shaft  and I appreciate the many ideas and experiences shared here.

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