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bradsmith2010:
I saw this the other day, and thought the length of the arrows was interesting,,
I figured to get the arrow spine right the longer arrow was needed ,, with the lighter stone tips,,and found the bow interestiing as well,, maybe I should have put it in arrow section,  but it had a bow so got confused (-S (W :)

Bob Barnes:
It does look strange to see such long arrows for such a short bow and short draw... but... It must have worked for him.  A friend gave me a set of wood arrows recently that are spined around 60#.  I shoot a 45# bow most of the time.  These arrows are 31" long and shoot great for me, so maybe longer arrows are more "forgiving" or maybe I just think they shoot well... LOL

bradsmith2010:
well it does reduce the spine as they go longer,, so I was just guesssing he left them longer to shoot out of that short bow,,, have seen some long west coast arrows, I assumed that shot better that way,,always curious,,the quiver is very interesting as well

BowEd:
Without knowing the type of wood those arrows are made out of any assumption will be taken out of context.
One other thing longer arrows will do is add mass to less dense material.
He made them to suit his objective.

bradsmith2010:
maybe cane.. so woould be hard to scrape them thinner,, and maybe light so the extra length was needed for the mass,, I wish I could shoot it, to see,, ;D

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