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osage outlaw:
Same here Dave.  Only broke one bamboo arrow when I hit some roots in a creek bed.  It split the shaft in half before it broke.  I have hit trees dead center and didn't hurt them.  I'll open a few packages of stakes and do a quick spine test in the store.  I'll mix and match a few stakes to get a good batch.  As long as I have the correct number in there when I'm done they don't seem to mind.

blackhawk:
One was a carbon...n the other was a cane shaft....it happened from shooting a bow in...I dont pay too much attention to accuracy when shooting one in...and they've smacked my railroad tie retaining wall behind my target ten too many times..lol.  :laugh:

N now it looks like I won't have time to make some new ones up...might have to make some up down there  ::)

hedgeapple:
Clint, the Lowes around here sale the tomato stakes individually.  So I just stand there and sort through all of them.  I usually bring home 10 to 15.  And there's 5 Lowes store within a thirty minute drive of me.  Whenever I'm near one, I stop by and buy more.

Chris, you make some here.  I find late night is the best time make arrow.  There's no power tools involved to hamper drinking.  And, I'm usually tired of scraping one a bow anyhow.  I have a fletching jig, hot flat steel to flatten nodes and secret little jig to straighten the bamboo.  It used to take me about 2 hours to straight a shaft, now I can do it in about 20 minutes.  And half that time is waiting on section to cool enough so I can hold it to bend another section.  The waiting time is where the beer comes in.  ;)

blackhawk:
Will do Dave...I already have 3 matched sets already spine matched n straight(cane,shun doo,n something else?) From various trades...just gotta cut self nocks,taper n glue heads,n glue feathers....n I got heads n feathers.... so it shouldn't take too long to whip out a half dozen to get me thru the weekend ;)....hope the weathers gonna be better than here right now...were getting freezing rain right now...yuck....limbs sagging n falling everywhere

osage outlaw:
Dave, the walmart here sells them in packs of 10 I think.  Our lowes used to but now they switched to single stakes.

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