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Arrow Life Expectancy...
JackCrafty:
I usually make my arrows in batches of 3-5. It takes about a year to wear out the set before I need to make a new batch. I guess I shoot twice a week on average...about 20 to 200 shots depending on how much time I have.
Some of my arrow damage is due to sloppy storage. I've been known to "accidentally" put fresh-cut staves and shoots on top of my arrows when I'm out "collecting"....must be all the excitement. ;D
Papa Matt:
Jack crafty, nice quote :D I always hate walking through forests that belong to State Parks because there are tons of super-straight untouched reeds and shoots for arrows but I never feel like going to prison over a stick.
I guess it just depends on how often and where you shoot. I'd say I lose about 1 out of 5 arrows either to damage or under weeds before they are a year old. But I like to go squirrel hunting in the fall when all the leaves cover the ground so bad. I'd say I lose arrows more often than anything which enfuriates me as I'm sure anyone else. I square the tips and everything but they still find a way to dig in.
-Matt
Kegan:
Hickory- a few loses, no breaks. They'll outlast me I'm sure :D.
Birch dowels- shooting from an 80# bow at everything- including stumps, plastic lids (thrown into the air), dirt, the ground, trees, and anything else that might in some way hurt arrows- the shaft usually breaks behind the tip, after about two weeks and several hundred shots. Of course, if I were more careful they would last much longer. Cept for the ones I bust the nocks on >:D.
I usually have about six or so arrows in my quiver though, so I guess I never go through a dozen?
markinengland:
I made a set of 15 hazel arrow with Bulletwood foreshafts and self points. Aftet two years shooting I am working on a new set as I am down to 6 arrows now. 9 broken arrows in 2 years of weekend shooting when trees keep jumping out in front of me isn't bad!
Shoot arrows seem way more durable than POC.
I have never ever managed to break a bamboo arrow though!
Mark in England
M-P:
I have to admit that a set of a dozen arrows gets replaced ~ twice a year. I shoot twice a week on average, mostly POC arrows. My biggest loos is just plain loss. An arrow that skips off the back of a 3D target is usually too far gone to find. My second biggest loss is split nocks due to Robin hooding. I use horn reinforced self nocks. It takes a hard knock to damage them, but a straight blow from another arrow really does them in. (I'm not bragging, I just run with a crowd that seems to delight in hitting each other's arrows.) Once I have fewer than 6 matched arrows, I start making a new set and use the old sets for practice. Ron
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