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possum:
... my arrow making abilities suck! :'(  Or at least they did. ;D  I started getting serious when my arrows wouldn't go where I aimed.  They went in the general area (same zip code) but nothing consistent.  I started tweaking the length with whatever spine the bamboo spined.  I added bird shot in the heads of arrows too short, shortened 1/4" here, 1/2" here to the long ones, etc...  But the biggest problem I noticed is that the arrows I did last year had fletching that was just HORRIBLE!!  I'm ashamed to even say I did it.  I started shooting the new ones today and WOW!!!  I'm a better shot than I thought.

Moral of this story is:
Check your arrows before the hunt.  Tied on fletching can and will move around and it causes funky arrow flight.

possum

ps I know we all know this but this is just a reminder in case we overlook the basics.

jamie:
dude im a firm believer that any bent stick is a bow. the arrow is where the art is.

cowboy:
Ya'll are scarin me  :-[ :-\

Justin Snyder:

--- Quote from: jamie on September 06, 2007, 09:50:00 pm ---dude im a firm believer that any bent stick is a bow. the arrow is where the art is.

--- End quote ---
WHAT?? Actually without the arrow, its just a fancy rabbit stick.  :o Justin

bikermikearchery:
being a rather hard headed individual, I offten have to relearn the same leason over again.
I made a Osage flat bow that I was very happy with the tiller, but it had a fat grip and I made arrows that were very light spined so they could snake around that chubby grip area. This bow shot very well in this set up, but after a while I decided that I could get a few more foot per seconds out of her so i tweaked here and there and cut a sight window and thinned out the grip area. Wow it was much faster. so the next week end I took this bow and the old arrows to a shoot and peppered the whole country side with arrows. No place was safe except the targets that I was shooting at. Took me the whole shoot to figure out that these arrows were now way to lightly spined for this bow. After I made new arrows, the bow shoots just fine.

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