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Offline swamp monkey

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Self arrows blunts and broadhead
« on: January 21, 2017, 06:14:27 pm »
These are replicas inspired by assorted tribes across the eastern United States woodlands  I started work on them last spring and recently finished them up.

These were split or cut shafts of hickory with one or two oak thrown in there.  Most of the originals were not fletched.  Three of them I ended up fletching because that is what the originals had. 

Offline make-n-break

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Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2017, 07:00:25 pm »
Awesome! Always wanted to try self blunts. Nice missiles!
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2017, 09:18:06 pm »
Those are very nice. Those are on my to do list.

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Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2017, 11:08:57 pm »
Very nice looking arrows.  How good do they fly.

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Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2017, 11:09:46 pm »
Those are very cool! I wanna try some of those too! Cheers- Brendan

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Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2017, 07:07:01 am »
Nice arrows swamp monkey those look like they would do the job they where designed for
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Offline swamp monkey

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Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2017, 09:01:02 am »
Thanks for the kind words folks.  as for flight.  They do well.  One had some slight symmetry problems and flies off to one side.  Blunts really need to be perfect all the way down till they meet the shaft.  Thanks for looking. 

Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2017, 09:04:51 pm »
What size wood did you start out with?

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Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2017, 08:59:51 am »
Very nice set of arrows. :)
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Offline swamp monkey

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Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2017, 08:39:31 pm »
On the big green one I started with a 1" square blank.  The others were 1/2" blanks.

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Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2017, 08:44:17 pm »
The blunts look like the arrows we made when I was a kid. We never had feathers when we wanted them and the big blunt put the weight forward so they would fly OK. I never considered them "real" arrows. I guess I was wrong.