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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: DanaM on March 20, 2008, 09:18:45 am

Title: Red Osier Set
Post by: DanaM on March 20, 2008, 09:18:45 am: Here's a bakers dozen set or Red Osier arrows I just finished for the Tennessee Classic.
Just finished test shooting them here at work down the hallway ::) they all shoot quite nice.
They weigh in at about 525 grains and are 30", did a little stain job on em as the red osier is
extremely white. Also 3 boo arrows I finished up they also shoot very nice. Hopefully I don't lose em all at Pappy's.

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Title: Re: Red Osier Set
Post by: Hillbilly on March 20, 2008, 09:33:14 am: Good lookin' pro-jectiles, Dana.
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Post by: Cromm on March 20, 2008, 09:50:29 am: Hi, As it say's in the photo above the arrows. LEGEND. ;D
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Post by: FlintWalker on March 20, 2008, 11:20:59 am: Man! Dana, them look good! Glad they all worked out good for you.
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Post by: Woodland Roamer on March 20, 2008, 02:22:11 pm: Great looking bunch of arrows there Dana!

Alan
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Post by: Bishop on March 20, 2008, 03:06:20 pm: Dana
thems a pretty bunch of arrows, i dont think i could bring myself to shoot em..lol.
ummm..i noticed you are fooling around at work again...do you have any openings there and where do i get a application.
Bishop
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Post by: flecha on March 20, 2008, 03:46:00 pm: I love the fletching binding. You do some nice work. Love the shooting range too.
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Post by: david w. on March 20, 2008, 05:19:34 pm: wow danai really really like those
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Post by: bootboy on March 20, 2008, 05:23:46 pm: I LOVE ARROWS!!!!!
I use pretty much only red osier. Its like the bow making god said I think we need some plants Only to make arrows from and KABOOM! with an EARTH shaking, Lighting bolt....from his bow...The Red Osier was thusly Begun...
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Post by: wolfsire on March 20, 2008, 05:37:03 pm: All of them look very nice. The quiver too.
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Post by: wvfknapper on March 20, 2008, 06:31:09 pm: Nice work Bro

wvflintknapper
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Post by: George Tsoukalas on March 20, 2008, 08:48:01 pm: Beautiful arrows! Incredible how you got them so straight. Jawge
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Post by: DanaM on March 20, 2008, 08:57:28 pm: Thanks guys I would rather make bows than arrows anyday, dang arrows are more trouble. Then ya go out and lose one on
the first shot and ya say well there goes 4 hours of work :'( Red Osier makes good arrows, my secret is cut lots of shoots
then take em home and have a cold beveredge while culling ;D

Bishop ya have to apply through me and pass my intensive testing, are you squemish? do ya mind getting poop on ya? because I'm
the boss and while the other guys are getting all poopy I'm shooting my bow or on the PA website >:D
Title: Re: Red Osier Set
Post by: david w. on March 20, 2008, 10:32:32 pm: those are so pretty

does red oiser grow in sw illinois?
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Post by: ricktrojanowski on March 20, 2008, 11:39:26 pm: DanaM Nice arras I've been hoping to find some red osier. What kind of habitat should I be looking in? Swampy areas? Do you know of a good pic. so I know what I'm looking for?
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Post by: Hillbilly on March 21, 2008, 12:22:00 am: David, you should have both red osier and silky dogwood. They are very similar plants. Look along creek banks, river flood plains, and swamp edges for patches of tall shrubs with lots of straight, reddish-colored stems that look like they were put there by the creator for you to make arrow shafts from.
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Post by: Pat B on March 21, 2008, 12:39:42 am: Very nice arrows, Dana. I have only made a few red osier arrows but like the stuff pretty good. You did a good job on these arrows...and the cane arrows. Pat
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Post by: david w. on March 21, 2008, 01:01:18 am: thanks hillbilly i will look for stuff. My dad has a part time job at Olin and where the plant and shooting range is its a swamp.
well not really a swamp like the glads but it is swamp like you know what i mean

how does it compare to rose shoots? i love my rose arrows but they can be a devil to straighten and if there is something better than i will switch from rose
Title: Re: Red Osier Set
Post by: DanaM on March 21, 2008, 08:04:11 am: rick just google red osier, I find them in wet areas alond lakes, ditches etc. really common up here.
david they don't have thorns ;D so are easier to gather than rose shoots and I have a tough time finding
rose large enough up here
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Post by: Pappy on March 21, 2008, 10:17:34 am: Beautiful arrows Dana,you may loose them all ,if you don't keep a good eye o um. ;) ;D ;D
Very nice job,I need to get into arrows more ,just can't seem to make the time. ???
Pappy
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Post by: Justin Snyder on March 21, 2008, 10:59:39 am: Dana, those are some beautiful arrows. The only problem I can see with your job is you are stuck inside. But then who wants to go outside in that weather. :D Justin
Title: Re: Red Osier Set
Post by: DanaM on March 21, 2008, 11:22:52 am: Thanks Pappy, with the way I shoot I probably will lose them all on your 3D course :'(

Justin its going to be a balmy mid 30's today ::) Suns even out ;D
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Post by: John K on March 21, 2008, 11:56:49 am: Nice arrows Dana ! Looks like i'm getting a Good Friday snow storm :'(
There calling for 8-15 inches by the end of it all :o
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Post by: DanaM on March 21, 2008, 12:47:41 pm: geez John I feel so bad about that >:D ;D I might actually have a beer at the picnic table today ;D
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Post by: John K on March 21, 2008, 12:49:53 pm: :P :P
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Post by: Justin Snyder on March 21, 2008, 01:50:56 pm: Quote from: DanaM on March 21, 2008, 12:47:41 pm
geez John I feel so bad about that >:D ;D I might actually have a beer at the picnic table today ;D
I got my pool cleaned this morning. Its going to be in the 70's AGAIN today. ;D Justin
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Post by: John K on March 21, 2008, 01:54:41 pm: Lucky dog !!
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Post by: david w. on March 21, 2008, 09:38:59 pm: today by me it was in the 60s

i love spring!! it is almost time to break out the flyrod! ;D
Title: Re: Red Osier Set
Post by: El Destructo on March 21, 2008, 10:01:55 pm: Been in the 70's here today too....been out trimming Trees and cleaning the Koi Pond....but all good things must come to an end...they are calling for Rain tomorrow....turning to Snow for Easter!!!

Nice Arrows Dana....I guess I will have to Hunt some Red Osier Dogwood when I come Home too!!!
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Post by: ricktrojanowski on March 22, 2008, 12:05:17 am: Thanks for the info. Something else to look for while "hunting". ;D
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Post by: PK on March 22, 2008, 08:42:56 am: Dana, Those Arrows are most excellent, I remember that Quiver,Glad ya get to use it. Happy Easter.PK
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Post by: Dustybaer on March 22, 2008, 09:00:43 am: wow, them are purty!

Quote from: DanaM on March 20, 2008, 09:18:45 am
Hopefully I don't lose em all at Pappy's.

let me think, stained or green shafts, camo feathers......yep, you're gonna lose them (unless, of course, you're a chicken and hit the target out of fear to lose the arrows. i hardly ever seem to give in to that fear ;D )
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Post by: DanaM on March 22, 2008, 09:08:13 am: Dusty I'm sure I will appease the lost arrow gods ;)
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Post by: El Destructo on March 22, 2008, 11:31:53 am: well if yer reeeely skeeerd Dana....ya can be like dem Rednecks in Alanreed,Texas at Gouge-Eye Archery Club...en wrap dem dar nock ya see witda Copper wiiire...and den whenst ya lose un....ya goes an gits dat hi tek contrapshun dat beep when ya fines Money and such.....
>:D >:D >:D >:D >:D

I aint Bull-Shnitting......they actually do that at this one 3D Shoot I went too!! the Place is so thick with Grapevine Undergrowth and stuff that got big Thorns all over it..... All those Toothless Varmints went Home with all their Arrows and I left with 3/4 of a Dozen!!!
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Post by: Pat B on March 22, 2008, 11:54:39 am: The best way to improve your shooting is knowing that you will loose an arrow or 2...but if you worry about loosing them you aren't concentrating on where they will go and you will loose more. This is not just a theory! ;D ::) Pat
Title: Re: Red Osier Set
Post by: DanaM on March 22, 2008, 12:48:08 pm: I believe ya Pat when the snow melts I need to get over to the neighbors yard and retrieve a few ::)
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Post by: El Destructo on March 22, 2008, 12:55:03 pm: I've had to cut a few off that stuck in the Neighbors Privacy Fence before!!!

>:D
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Post by: sailordad on March 22, 2008, 02:08:56 pm: i do that a couple times a week my self.lol ;D
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Post by: Sparrow on March 22, 2008, 02:49:58 pm: Nice arrows.(Ain't nothing like turkey wing to make a pretty fletch) Good work ! Frank
Title: Re: Red Osier Set
Post by: DanaM on March 22, 2008, 09:59:37 pm: Thanks frank, dang arra's are a ton of work.
Title: Re: Red Osier Set
Post by: Coo-wah-chobee on March 23, 2008, 12:44:29 am: Quote from: DanaM on March 22, 2008, 09:59:37 pm
Thanks frank, dang arra's are a ton of work.
What ya got somethin' else ta do ? Nice arras fer a northerner ! ;D ;D..........bob