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Yaupon Shoot Arrows
Hawkdancer:
Nice looking bundles of shafts! The other pics got " Bucketed"! Sounds like you need to have a "hog hunting party"! (SH) (-_) (=) -C-!
Hawkdancer
txdm:
I'm at a phase where I decide to go shoot my newly made arrows. I get all geared up and after a few shots, I pop over to the shed and start tinkering with them...this one needs sanding, this one needs straightening. And then I decide to start a new one, and before long its dark and I only shot a few times.
I kinda like making arrows more than I like making bows. Surprisingly, I found that using a metal scraper instead of a belt sander is faster and less hazardous (to me and the arrows) when stripping the bark and shaping them.
Also, my 3D hog target ate one of my copper points.
Vgo750:
I read you are an hour east of Austin? Wherabouts? My family just bought a ranch south of rockdale!
txdm:
Updating this... my yaupon arrows are seemingly "lazy"... I mean some are rubbery enough that I can bend a shaft 180 degrees without it breaking, because the wood is just not stiff enough...and so they lack "spring".
Other arrows I've done from different woods have been stiffer, including a deciduous holly that grows among yaupons that is possibly possumhaw.
Should I try to dry the yaupons more in a heated box?
DC:
You left the bark on, right? Maybe that's holding the moisture in.
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