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mullet:
  Well, you can make turkey calls out of it.

Hillbilly:

--- Quote ---Is there a difference between river cane and Phrags?
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There is an enormous difference. Phragmites reed is weak and flimsy. River cane is actually a woody hard-stemmed true bamboo. River cane arrows are almost indestructable. Some people make arrows from phrag reed, but they require foreshafts and nock inserts and are pretty light and fragile. River cane makes heavy, tough, serious hunting arrows. One thing to watch out for is that especially out west, a lot of people call arundo (giant reed) river cane. Arundo and phragmites are pretty similar.

boze:
  Thanks Hillbilly!  Where I live there's a ton of phrags, I figured they weren't any good.

xin:
:Phragmites isn't all that bad for making arrows..  As noted, just use nock inserts and foreshafts.  Rivercane is just a lot tougher than phragmites or anything else  That doesn't mean phragmites doesn't make good serviceable arrows.

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