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Title: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: iowabow on June 05, 2013, 04:33:36 pm
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.
Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: adb on June 05, 2013, 04:43:47 pm
The point is certainly fine! Some get as old as 5,000 years or more without damage!
Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: Thesquirrelslinger on June 05, 2013, 07:47:22 pm
... One good thing about vanes is that they don't do that... :P
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Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: mullet on June 05, 2013, 11:20:34 pm
... One good thing about vanes is that they don't do that... :P
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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.
Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: JW_Halverson on June 05, 2013, 11:21:39 pm
... One good thing about vanes is that they don't do that... :P
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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.   >:(
Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: richardzane on June 05, 2013, 11:41:01 pm
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.
Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: mullet on June 05, 2013, 11:53:28 pm
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. 8)
Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: AH on June 06, 2013, 02:50:35 am
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. 8)
wasn't that squirrelslayer and not the squirrelslinger?
Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: Olanigw (Pekane) on June 06, 2013, 09:05:43 am
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. 8)
wasn't that squirrelslayer and not the squirrelslinger?
Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: bowtarist on June 06, 2013, 11:26:09 am
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. :-[
Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: Thesquirrelslinger on June 06, 2013, 11:44:36 am
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.
Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: bowtarist on June 06, 2013, 02:14:15 pm
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 
Title: Re: how well will an arrow hold up to the elements
Post by: Ifrit617 on June 06, 2013, 05:44:30 pm
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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