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BowEd:
It's great you discovered local shoots to use.An endless supply at your disposal.Cutting plenty for seasoned ones available whenever needed.An assembly line of processing in stages.Nice arrows btw.I've enjoyed using my local shoots for all kinds of shooting here too.Especially hunting because of their density and clean flight.They will bend quite far before they will ever break.Very tough like you said.
Dogwoods and plum are my local shoots.

ntvbowyer1969:
Bow ED i agree. I also use dogwood its just easier for me to find privet. I keep telling myself i am going to mark the dog wood with marker tape but i have forgot these last two years. I am not that good at identifying dogwood with all the leaves of it in the winter. When i did cut some it was with a old timer...even older than me...lol. he was good at tree identification just by bark.Privet and wild rose are easy for me to identify. for wild rose it usually finds me first.....just jumps out and "grabs" me.  lol

BowEd:
I'm sure I don't have privet here.I did trade for some ocean spray and hill cane.For rose I use local multiflora rose.It's a little thicker than dogwood to get the spine.That stuff will find you too.The dogwood shafts I cut are always red in color usually.I'm lucky enough to have lots around me here.The plum here is a little denser than the dogwood so the shafts can get narrower yet which I like.5/16" or less & 29" long will still give me a 650 grain arrow with a 125 grain tip or broadhead.Harder to get a set of a dozen together than the dogwood though.
What do you get out of the privet?

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