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first bamboo arrow...
mullet:
Sweet looking arrow. Once you go cane or boo, you won't want to shoot anything else. And, Man, you sure are organized. I need you to clean my shop.
ricktrojanowski:
Nice job. Eddie is right about the boo thing. I have no interest in building wood arrows any more.
Shooter_G22:
yup,
i made that arrow a while back since then i have probably made a little over half a doz.. and have been trying to get a whole bunch harvested... there are a couple of spots with in driving distance that i know of that has that stuff growing wild... sooo i have been harvesting some and even sent out some on trades... but yup i like the stuff and i have been trying out some privote we got alot of that privote out here in the woods we hike and train in.. sooo im starting to try and get alot of the natural shoots for arrow making... but i have to admit i still want to learn how to make well made / matched cedar or pine shafts from the dowel cutter and compression block.. will have that stuff ordered in the next few weeks hopefully....
as for the boo i dont know what im doing wronge becuase i have managed to really beat them upa dn have even broke a few... but then again i really do alot of shooting or really not me but the boys on the team really put them through hell.... and have managed to break em... but they really like them too...
i have had tehm cracking at the tips... but all i have been doing is hot glue srew in field points... and they either come out or crack the tips and splinter back... i have had a couple break in half but that was from them either getting step on or getting hung up through the thick brush in the woods...
but know that i think of it the abue the boys put them through i have to say they are pretty dang durable...lol...
sailordad:
havent made any myself(yet).
however i would think if you rapped some sinew etc. just behind the broadhead at the tip of the shaft,that should help them fro cracking,spliting at that end
Shooter_G22:
salordad,
the ones that have broken on us are the ones with screw in field points... i by some 125 grain screw in filed points or target / practice points they sell them here at a sports store called academy sports and out doors.. for about 3 bucks a doz... they are screw in like the kind you would screw into an alluminuim or carbon shaft... but i just holow out the bamboo and fill up the hollow shaft with hot glue and then heat up the screw in tip and srew into the shaft of filled hot glue...
works well and easy... but sometimes the tip will come off and stay in the target or... or when the boys miss there target or when they shoot at stumps or other things and if it hits hard on a solid stump or if they miss the target and it over shoots into creek bed and hits rock or something then it might split... but over all they have been durable like i said they really beat them up...
but i have noticed some of the arrows we have made from 5/16 oak dowels have really held up as well...
these boys really put the arrows through some abuse... and we are allways having to rebuild them..lol... but i guess i should really just get them to organize a little better....
we also have the plastice knocks fly off sometimes too and feathers that either fly off or strip half way through.... i really just need to get some really good arrows put togather and get some kind of sytem down... like a couple of arrow racks lie the kind in an archery store where looks like a table with hole in that hold the arrows in and hold a few dozen at a time and just have the boys put there arrow in rows and if one breaks or messes up take over to differant rack and put in the to fix rack.. righ now we jus have acardboard box that they all broken arrows go in... so we can re use the componants like feathers and tips... lol...
but over all i like the boo... but the privot is a pretty tuff arrow too... and we are doing ok with oak dowels and even some of the store bought cheapy's
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