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"Rifled" arrowshafts.
PecosMike:
Hi to all..new guy to the board and very happy to have access..Primitive Archer magazine is among my favorite "guilty pleasure" reading..lol
I love traditional bows/arrows but I also like to engage in a little experimental "could have been done" bow and arrow-making. I was wondering if anybody modern or archaic has dispensed with fletching altogether and simply cut "rifling" into the arrow shaft itself. Bullets as high speed projectiles stay on trajectory because they are grooved and Nerf footballs traveling at much slower speeds do in fact spin and it seems to work. Any comments most appreciated. Thanks much..Mike
El Destructo:
Well I don't know about the Nerf Football...but the Rifled Bullet is spun from the Barrel Rifling...not by air resistance...as in the Football....I don't believe that at the rate of Speed that an Arrow travels...that small grooves cut into the Arrow would be enough to create any spinning effect at all....not enough surface area to create the Drag necessary to make it spin....but then I am not a Mechanical Engineer either......
markinengland:
I think it could work if the arrow was front heavy to help stability, with rifling togive spin. I think i have read of it being tried before.
Some places you can buy dowelling made with spiral groovea, though the longest I have seen available is about 24 inches.
Mark in England
El Destructo:
you put a Spiral Groove in a Shaft and it will never be deep enough to create any drag....it might spin slowly with a Target Point... or maybe a Bodkin.....but never with a Flint Point or Broadhead.....JMO
Coo-wah-chobee:
well I dont use grooved shafts but I sometimes dont use fletch in shots up ta about 15-18 yards. Ifn yer arra is made correctly IMO you dont need the fletch at these distances. I also dont think arras need ta spin thats just modern thinking (read marketing hype here) IMO again. Arras need ta penetrate and has nothing ta do with spinning once again IMO. My 2 cents............bob-going against prevailing thinking again, oh yes this line stolen from Rich Saffold ! ;D
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