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Cedar vs Bamboo
Shooter_G22:
i have just recently jumped pn the bamboo band wagon... i was able to get a few bamboo shafts on a trade from madcrow...
i have never worked with bamboo... other than shooting the ocasional dried out found bamboo stick as a kid unfletched or tiped but i would love to shoot them cuase it would fly alot futher than the other stuff i shot...
but i have been trying to work some and got a few made... and i have located a place i could go cut some and i got some more potential shafts drying now...
but i dont know if i am doing them right... i have been trying to straightin them as much as posible.. but the dont get real straight but i still like the way they look and shoot... havnt shot them out at far distance yet just about ten yrds at a homemade box target inside... been getting alot of rain here and when its not raining im working to make up for lost time at work...
i have to say it is alot of fun making the bamboo arrows i enjoy working with it more than any other material.. but i sure wish i had some professional made ones to compare my work to how it should be done...
i just feel like i knwo there has got to be a better way to get this things straighter...
i love the way they feel when you draw them and the feel of it when it zips free from the release...
TRACY:
--- Quote from: ricktrojanowski on November 13, 2008, 10:44:32 pm ---I just started shooting boo shafts after shooting wood for quite a while. I don't see ever going back to wood. I am amazed with the flight and strenth of the boo arrows.
--- End quote ---
I am in the same boat using river cane and tonkin shafts. Tough!
Tracy
Pat B:
Shooter, one of the hardest things for us is to realize we are not working with modern materials and that perfect straightness is not necessary to get a good arrow flight. The most important thing for me is that they fly well...not necessarily how straight they actually are. Once you can make cane(or hardwood shoot)arrows that shoot well, you can concentrate on how straight they are or how good they look. Chris Cade and Art Butner(and others) make cane arrows that are as straight of factory made shafts and I really appreciate the expertise and preciseness they put into their cane arrows. There is no comparison between their arrows and mine but mine will kill just as quickly as the ones they make if I do my job of putting it where it needs to go. ;) Pat
jamie:
the natural taper in a boo shaft also allows for better penetration when hunting.
Pat B:
...plus the natural taper makes them less spine sensitive. Pat
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