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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Buck67 on September 23, 2020, 02:55:47 pm

Title: least expensive option for kids arrows
Post by: Buck67 on September 23, 2020, 02:55:47 pm

I made a 25# at 21 inch bow and 9 arrows for a young boy.  He has already lost 3 of the arrows.  What is an inexpensive alternate for the arrows, so I can provide him with more.

Title: Re: least expensive option for kids arrows
Post by: DC on September 23, 2020, 02:57:27 pm

Get him to make one. He may value them a bit higher ;D Fat chance ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: least expensive option for kids arrows
Post by: Pat B on September 23, 2020, 03:08:15 pm

You can buy 1/4" dowels from a hardware store but be sure they have good grain. Drastic runoffs can be dangerous.

Title: Re: least expensive option for kids arrows
Post by: stuckinthemud on September 24, 2020, 02:22:36 pm

Arrows from hazelnut bushes sharpened like a pencil and hardened are pretty close to being free. I re-enforced the tips of my kids' arrows with tiny bone or antler chips, 'hardened' with cyano and fletched with flights from goose feathers found at the local lake. Cost quite a lot in time but pretty much free financially.

Title: Re: least expensive option for kids arrows
Post by: Buck67 on September 25, 2020, 07:05:26 am

Thank you for all the replies.  I'll give them a try.  Looks like I'll be sorting through the dowels at Lowes again and raiding the neighbors bushes.

Title: Re: least expensive option for kids arrows
Post by: Pat B on September 25, 2020, 07:53:36 am

Well, Buck, whatever it takes to get what we need.  :OK