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My first cane/bamboo arrows
GregB:
Pat, I tried to slot the nock such that the slot was located 90 degrees from where the shoots came out of the nodes. I tried to have the cock feather in line with where the shoots came out also. That make sense?
These arrows should all be within 50 grains or so of each other, but I did not spine test them all.
Pat B:
Generally flipping the cock feather in will do the trick when you have a problem with cane and shoot arrows. Sometimes you get one that just doesn't want to cooperate. >:( I make flu flu squirrel arrows out of them. ;D Pat
Ranger B:
Pat, should the node (stiff side) be facing away from the bow or into the bow?
Pat B:
The nodes alternate up the cane so some on one side will be against the bow and the other will be away from the bow. As long as they are perpendicular to the string it shouldn't matter. Pat
GregB:
Jimmy,
Sorry to take over your string, but maybe you'll learn something from some of my questions since we're both in the same boat here. ;)
Out of the first 16 cane arrows I've made, exactly half of them flew good. Okay, I'm goin' to take the optimistic view and say that my cup is half full. ;D I'm hoping I can work with the 8 bad ones and get them to flying. I'm going to go through them and check them for straightness again compared to the good ones. Also I've barely sanded the nodes, so maybe they're causing some of the problems. These arrow's weren't just high or low, they were usually off to the side as well. One of them flew really bad and shot high left over the top of a 3' square target at about 15 yards. Any other idea's that could come into play? Have yall found this to be typical of new cane arrows, or do you have a higher percentage of success? Remember these are my first cane arrows, so I'm sure a learning curve is playing a part as well.
Thanks!
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