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Pat B:
Mock orange does have a pith but good arrows can be made from it. You are correct that using second year growth is the way to go.

loefflerchuck:
Maybe I just cut some great shafts in the mountains on northern California. I've found it to be one of the best shoot shafts I have ever used and I've used many kinds. I just wish they grew around here. They were pretty stiff and stayed strait. I still have a half a dozen Miwok style arrows socketed with live oak foreshafts. they are still strait after 7 years. I think they are just as good as good dogwood shoots.

Pat B:
Chuck, your local landscape plant store should have mock orange or can get it for you. It is a pretty common landscape plant here.

loon:

--- Quote from: loefflerchuck on May 19, 2017, 08:21:46 pm ---Maybe I just cut some great shafts in the mountains on northern California. I've found it to be one of the best shoot shafts I have ever used and I've used many kinds. I just wish they grew around here. They were pretty stiff and stayed strait. I still have a half a dozen Miwok style arrows socketed with live oak foreshafts. they are still strait after 7 years. I think they are just as good as good dogwood shoots.

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Thanks, good to hear. Got pictures?  Have you made Miwok style bows too?

loefflerchuck:
Thanks Pat, Last fall we moved out of Salt lake to the mountains. I'll have to see if it grows above 7000 ft.

Loon- I've made lots of Miwok style and replica bows. One of my main bows is a 49" Miwok style juniper bow with 5 layers of sinew. I have it posted here somewhere a while back. I'll find it and post a link. When I was living is CA I made quite a few from incense cedar branches. Had a article published in PA a while back about them. I think it is a great design for heavy sinew backed juniper and incense cedar.

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