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bjrogg:
Nice work as always Ed

Bjrogg

BowEd:
Shot the new dogwood shafts at a 3D shoot saturday.Fun shoot with a half dozen other fellas.1 was a little weak on spine but the rest were dead on.The rest did their thing....ha ha.3 other fellas made their own bows in the group.2 compounds along too.Shot the salt and pepper bow.Shots ranged from 10 yards to 45 yards.Had a blast.
All others along shot carbide arrows.
Had some interesting discussions about shoot shafts and bows in general.It's a blast to convert the main stream back into the past.
Might pick up some different shoot types from a fella from Louisiana he says grows locally there.Don't know the exact name of them yet though.

Black Moshannon:
Those are nice. Can't believe you're getting 13% FOC with only 125 grain points. I measured mine tonight and they're around 11.5%. And my points weigh between 180-200 grains. Maybe its because I mostly dowel my shafts before finishing them. It looks like you leave more of the natural taper.

BowEd:
I'm using the calculator from bowhunting.com to figure out my foc number.
When harvesting these natural shoots I like a lot of natural taper.Most times the nocks on mine are 9/32".
4" low cut feather fletching.
Balance point of parallel shafts will balance about an inch closer to the middle of shaft.
Balance point on these to tip is close to 1/3 to 2/3 to nock with 125 grain field tips.Going to 145 grain field tips does'nt gain me all that much but a little though,but then I need to increase the spine 5#'s and that makes the dogwoods into the +650 grain range and I don't really need that.

Black Moshannon:
That’s a pretty good balance. I left the front ends on my last several bigger because I put light bone points on. I’m thinking that may have been a mistake as it might hinder penetration, but I’m just playing around with these. I saw Ryan Gill released a video explaining the differences between modern steel point arrow balance versus using a primitive point in which a small light and pointy end is needed. He said you can’t try to have a stone point with a heavy front end… got me to thinking bone would probably be the same…

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