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What do you use as arrows?
billy:
I live In GA and I use rivercane exclusively for my hunting arrows. I like it because it requires no reduction in thickness, it is hard, and it stays straight. I prefer dogwood or oak shoots for my foreshafts. I've also made arrows from Giant Reed (an introduced reed native to Europe), sourwood, dogwood, syringa (from Oregon), wild rose (from Oregon), and oceanspray (from Oregon). But for my hunting arrows I use rivercane.
Glenn R.:
Hazel shoots. I am absolutely convinced the Native Americans in our area used it and Dogwood being it is the prominent species around here. I live in Macoupin County, Illinois. Lots of creek bottoms and 30 min. from both the Illinois River and Cahokia Mounds. I have found several stone tools in our creek, scrapers and shavers which appear to have been used for scraping down the shoots. Off the same ground here at home I found the tools, harvested the hazel (arrows), the osage (bow), and killed my first primitive deer in '05 all off the same land. It was an awesome feeling.
lowell:
I have been making arrows from multi-flora rose for the last year. Used them all summer for 3-d shoots and have been hunting them all deer season. Not every arrow I make is a shooter, but it's very nice when one goes where I'm looking!! ;)
I'm from northern Il. and they are very plentiful.
I would like to try river cane if I could get some. Would trade for rose shoots?? ;D
Brokestick:
How dos the salt cedar work Justin? There's plenty of it around here, but it seems like the most brittle wood I've ever checked out.
Justin Snyder:
--- Quote from: Brokestick on November 20, 2007, 07:57:17 pm ---How dos the salt cedar work Justin? There's plenty of it around here, but it seems like the most brittle wood I've ever checked out.
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It is the heaviest in weight that I have used. Never heard of it being brittle. You can usually bend it a long way before it breaks. Justin
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