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I love bamboo :)

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hillbilly61:
Cane is all I use. Had a dzn POC arrows when I started but I find building cane, from harvesting to completion more satisfying And tthey last alot lomger from being tougher

aero86:
ive broken a few, but the last one i broke, wasnt the shafts fault.  i was seeing if i could split a small chunk of wood by shooting it with a nail head field point.  got pretty close to doing it.  still gotta watch out with bamboo, its pretty tough even when broken..  someone mentioned that it was used in the past with it just split for mail targets..  i can believe it. just take a piece of bamboo and shot something, like a board with it, and see what it does..

Pat B:
A friend of ours made a few cane(probably hill or river cane) arrows for a 3D shoot at Hickory NC a few years ago. Very primitive with tied on feathers in tangential style. For a point he cut a slash at the big end of the cane about 4" above a node and fire hardened it. He filled the void with sand and dripped pitch to seal it. Barry shot the entire course with one or two of these arrows, hitting trees, rocks, etc and both survived the test.

aznboi3644:
Hmm...I never knew cane was so tough.  I guess I had this predetermined view of it in my mind that cane was brittle and would break from hard hits.

I'd love to try some.  Anyone know if cane grows in southern Indiana?

Pat B:
I think it does along the very southern border. Look up Arundaneria (genus for native cane/bamboo) in a Ill State horticulture  or plant site

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