how well will an arrow hold up to the elements

[iowabow]

I shot and missed a deer in a grassy field and had to wait till spring to look for it. Well I did find it...lucky me! I liked this point and wanted it back. This was lost in early Oct and found yesterday. So it has been in the wet and freezing grass for ~8 months. The sinew was treated with beeswax.

[adb]

The point is certainly fine! Some get as old as 5,000 years or more without damage!

[Thesquirrelslinger]

... One good thing about vanes is that they don't do that...
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[mullet]

... One good thing about vanes is that they don't do that...
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Yea, they just dry rot and crumble.   I've found cane or boo arrows after couple of years that were still good except for the fletching and sinew.

[JW_Halverson]

... One good thing about vanes is that they don't do that...
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Get over here so I can smack you upside the head!

Dang kids anyway. Buy 'em books and they just eat the covers.   

[richardzane]

looks like an authentic artifact!
no wonder museum specimens look a little worn ...people probably out scouring battlegrounds months or years after a fight.

Vanes? Is someone here standing up for those dryrot plastic pieces of junk when the earth provides the perfect alternative?
renewable and often free: feathers.

[mullet]

looks like an authentic artifact!
no wonder museum specimens look a little worn ...people probably out scouring battlegrounds months or years after a fight.

Vanes? Is someone here standing up for those dryrot plastic pieces of junk when the earth provides the perfect alternative?
renewable and often free: feathers.

Yea, the new "Bowyer", with the compound bow.

[AH]

looks like an authentic artifact!
no wonder museum specimens look a little worn ...people probably out scouring battlegrounds months or years after a fight.

Vanes? Is someone here standing up for those dryrot plastic pieces of junk when the earth provides the perfect alternative?
renewable and often free: feathers.

Yea, the new "Bowyer", with the compound bow.

wasn't that squirrelslayer and not the squirrelslinger?

[Olanigw (Pekane)]

TomAYto / tomAHto.

Teenage boys full of p!ss and vinegar

looks like an authentic artifact!
no wonder museum specimens look a little worn ...people probably out scouring battlegrounds months or years after a fight.

Vanes? Is someone here standing up for those dryrot plastic pieces of junk when the earth provides the perfect alternative?
renewable and often free: feathers.

Yea, the new "Bowyer", with the compound bow.

wasn't that squirrelslayer and not the squirrelslinger?

[bowtarist]

Nice find John!

To the rest of the replys, similar to what Pekane said, Is there much of a difference? I try to ignore those two, never replying to their posts.   :-[I do read them sometimes though, just to see what all the hype is about.

[Thesquirrelslinger]

I shoot primitive stuff most of the time, but sometimes I will find and shoot carbon, alumnium, and fibergl@$$ arrows down at the trail. I must say that I prefer a smooth well-made cane arrow to any of them. I also take a few cane arrows, made from canes with spine weight crazy, with me for shooting at stumps, rocks, etc. Duct tape fletch.
I did get a dozen carbons for Christmas last year. Good arrows... but too light and lacking durability.

[bowtarist]

John, You ever hear the one about the two Southern Bells sitting @ the party and the one is talking and talking about how much her husband has given her and the other keeps saying, "That's nice." And when it comes time the first SB asks the 2nd, what her husband has given her and she says, He sent me to manners school (whatever the name of that place is, and the first says, "Oh dear whatever for?" and the second says, "So I'd learn to say 'that's nice' instead of _ _ _ _  _ _ _...you fill in the blanks...

Is it kinda like that?  ;)dp 

[Ifrit617]

Nice find John!

To the rest of the replys, similar to what Pekane said, Is there much of a difference? I try to ignore those two, never replying to their posts.   :-[I do read them sometimes though, just to see what all the hype is about.

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