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TRACY:
I'm new with working cane and have just been building a few arrows to try different methods etc.. I just can't get over how well these things shoot! I plan on hunting with them this deer season and have been trying to find the right mix. I whittled a piece of scrap osage to make a plug/field point and fletched turkey feathers with deer sinew. Suggestions and criticism welcome.

Thanks Tracy

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cheapshot:
Good looking arrow. I like the osage field point. You might want to do a sinew or thread wrap at the base of the shaft next to the field point, to help keep the shaft from splitting if you hit something hard.

El Destructo:
Good Job!! Like already stated....wrap the Shaft at the Point end also....and you may want to try and spiral the wrapping through the Feathers next time...it makes them lay better to the Shaft....how does it fly?? Is that tip heavy enough to keep it on track?? I tried one out of Walnut before...and it seemed too light and it would hit sporadically....switched to a Steel Field Point and it was awesomely accurate

DanaM:
Not that it matters a great deal but with the height of yer fletch and the gap between the fletch and shaft
I'm wondering is it noisy in flight? Nice arra :)

majsnuff:
Nice arrow. You are gonna find that these cane and bamboo arrows are tougher than all get out. In a shoot last spring, I hit the steel portion of a bonus target at 20 yards with one of mine on target #22 of a 40 target 3-D shoot. It just bounced off and I was able to finish the shoot with the same arrow. All the wood, carbon, and graphite arrows that hit the steel wound up in splinters.

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