Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: 4est Trekker on August 07, 2010, 02:44:20 pm
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Just finished this matched dozen for this season. (Also just finished the boo-backed ipe/osage bow in the first picture.) Arrows are poplar with a black and tobacco sunburst dye job. They're spine matched to +/- 1 lb and weight matched to +/- 10 grains. Thanks for looking!
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Nice hunting set up, 4est. Looking forward to seeing blood stains on them before too long! ;)
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Thanks, Pat. Those white fletchings do get dirty in a hurry...like you say, hopefully for the right reasons :)
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I have no problem using bright fletching. I like to watch my arrow fly and the bright fletching helps do that. If you are concerned about spooking your quarry a simple cloth bag over the fletching will conceal them. I personally don't think the color matters as much as movement does.
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super clean looking arrows! i'm a big fan of white feathers, too- especially when they have bright red frothy blood stains!
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nice arrows.
where'd you get the poplar shafts ?? (you may have to PM that info, if the vendor is not a PA advertiser.)
I hand planed some poplar into arrow shafts a few years back and was very pleased with the results.
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Excellent work! The colors are stunning!
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Very nicely done. Jawge
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Beautiful!
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Great set of arrows, man! :)
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4est, what's going on the business end of your hunting arrows. My main hunting arrows for this year are hill cane from my driveway that Art Butner made up for me and WW up front. I also have stone tipped arrows to shoot with my main hunting bow and my back up bow.
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Pat: I've been using MA-2's and like them a lot. Someday I'd like to use stone-tipped cane with my osage selfbow. Just haven't had the time to get those together.
Sonny: I buy the shafts at Menard's. I think the franchise is localized in the Midwest, but I've seen them from time to time at the major home improvement retailers (i.e. The Home Depot, Lowes, etc.). Each time I go, I sort through all the 5/16" dowels in the rack for ones that are clear and straight grained. I bundle them up and store them until I get about 20 or 30. Then I cut them to 30 inches, sand them, straighten them, spine and weigh them, and then group them in bundles by spine weight. Heck, for $0.28 a piece, you can't hardly go wrong! :)
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Very nice set. I do like the dye, came out pretty. go dirty them up!
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nice job love the white fletch with the red string wrap
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4est Nice looking arrows. I like the bright/ white fletching myself. What is the writing on the shafts? Do you put your signature on them?
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Scott: Nope, I do it all the time. Lacquer is a finish that is compatible with nearly everything. You do need to let it cure out though, and that can take several days. It dries to the touch very quickly, but cures to it's harder state over time.
Eric: Thanks. Yep, I sign my signature, hometown, and spine weight on the arrows using white India ink.
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Supper nice set!! What weight bow do them out of? I've used some 3/8" oak shafts and am not happy with them. They are too heavy ( compared to my cedar arrows) and flex way to much. I don't have a spine tester , I work near a Menards around Milwaukee and will have to try the poplar 5/16". I shoot a 55# longbow.
Again great set of arrows!!!!
Jay
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Thanks, all. Jay, I shoot around 43# on my near centershot bow and 40# on my osage longbow and horsebow (neither centershot). I use the same arrows for all of them (the centershot bow being more tolerant of spine). I usually shoot shafts with around 33-36# spine. Now, I've got a bunch of shafts in the sub 30# range and a bunch in the 40-45# range, but it's taken quite a few trips to amass them. Seems like most I get are 30-40# in spine. But heck, for $0.28 a piece, I just grab all the straight grained ones in the bin each time I go! The raw shafts cut to 30" usually weight around 300 grains in the range I shoot. I suppose for your longbow you could add weight up front by using a brass tube footing. I've pasted a picture below. A 1" piece on a 5/16" shafts usually yields about 80 grains of mass increase, depending on the pipe wall thickness. Best of luck!
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nice arrows!
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4est, thanks for all the info. Now I know what I'm doing at lunch tomorrow. Our Whitetail season in Wisconsin is comming up quick. ;D
Jay