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Time to wipe the dust off (new full draw pg5)one for the little people

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bjrogg:
Working on an arrow.

As I said before 3/4 of the secret to making a really fun to shoot little bow is the arrow.

I’ve made quite a few but I think this is one of my favorites so far.

I started out with the skinny end of the skinniest River cane shaft I had. I straightened it with heat and wrapped both ends with sinew to keep them from splitting.

Then I screwed in this torques screw. Then I bare shaft tested it drawing the bow it’s for to the owners 16” draw. It flew straight right off the bat. That’s great. If it had flown sideways I would’ve had to either add or subtract point weight.

This screw with the head on would probably make a cool bunny buster.

I’m kind going for the cool factor though and these screws allow me to do something that I normally couldn’t with my other arrows.

I decided why not interchangeable points.

So I made a tiny broad head.

Bjrogg

PS decent FOC. Not a lot but a little bit.

bjrogg:
Then I took one of the screws to the torch and heated and forged out a flat point drawing the tip out as much as I could.

bjrogg:
Then I shaped the point and sharpened it on my grinder.

And there you have it. The cool factor and still interchangeable with the bunny buster or more child safety oriented.

Bjrogg

Aaron1726:
That's a really neat idea with the little broadhead.  That would be mean on a squirrel :)

bentstick54:
Very cool Brian. I bet he will really be surprised.

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