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richpierce:
Has anyone used honeysuckle shoots/limbs as arrow shafts?  Upsides/downsides?  I went hiking and harvested a dozen willow shoots, half a dozen dogwood, a couple of wild rose and about a dozen honeysuckle.  There seems to be plenty of it and most folks see itas a nuisance.  I guess it would need to have inserts for foreshaft and nocks.

What book is recommended for general info on making primitive arrows from shoots/stalks etc?

Pat B:
It must be a bush type honeysuckle(Amur?) and not the vine(Japanese) type we have here. Give it a try. Jamie killed a deer last year with a horse weed shoot and didn't use a foreshaft. He just hafted a stone point with pitch glue and sinew. ;D    Pat

Hillbilly:
I made a couple arrows from Amur honeysuckle, and it seems to be excellent arrow material. Plus it's a noxious invasive pest, so every shoot you cut is a bunch less seeds that year. A couple useful books for making shoot arrows are Jay Massey's arrows chapter in The Traditional Bowyer's Bible vol. 1 and Jim Hamm's Bows and Arrows of the Native Americans. There are a couple websites, too-try Mickey (The Ferret's) site, and Jawge's site. Both are chock-full-o-info.

jamie:
yup it works.

Minuteman:
Honeysuckle around here is a vine. No way you could make an arrow out of ours . Must be a different variety.
 If you have goldenrod in your area it'll make a better arrow than horseweed. You can haft right into it like Jamie did on the horseweed shaft.I used a trade point on mine though.
 Chris

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