Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Tracker0721 on March 12, 2016, 04:16:30 pm
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Finished a few arrows from ocean spray I collected last summer. Made 3 heads good enough for turkeys and wrapped the ends in sinew. Made some pine pitch glue last year and used that on my heads. Artificial sinew around my fletching. Last picture is where I was collecting red osier dogwood yesterday in the mountains around my home!
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Nice looking arrows, points and country side.....
DBar
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Just shot em for the first time and they fly perfectly, but the wrap around the feathers isn't nearly good enough. I either need way more wraps or too glue them down. Too loud for my liking. Thanks for the compliment!
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Look great!
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There's always more to learn. You've got a great start there!
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Very nice, those are turkey killers.
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Nice arrows looks like you had to do a lot of heating and bending to straighten. By all the cures and kinks. you left.
Heres what I starting doing about 15 years ago. I forgot about the 3/8 and I started getting my shoots 1/2 even 5/8's. Then a rasp right through those shot bends and kinks. Tapering as I go. Saves all those headakes come with trying to heat and bend with out putting the bends back in while taking out another one.
I can save half the time you'll spend heating and bending to straighten.
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Nice looking arrows they ought to do the job on a turkey.
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Nice arrows & points.
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Nice work. OS is nearly indestructible as arrow shafts
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Nice arrows, I bet them things are tough
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beautiful arrows and bow! Thanks for sharing the photos... wish there were more ha
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Nice job, I wish I had patience for arrows but I dont.
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Tracker, I have the same problem with my turkey feather wraps being crazy loud. the artificial sinew was always too wide, I could never seem to split it thin enough. someone mentioned waxd dental floss on here, and that seems to keep the noise down a bit better. looks wonky to me, being white against the wood, but I put up with a little strange look for the added quietness it gives.
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I always split them but I wrapped 1 again with the wraps under a centimeter apart and it was nice and quiet. Super happy now. May cheat and glue on my fletching with my blitzenburg for my hunting arrows.
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That's not cheating.....I glue them on and then wrap them all the time ;)
DBar
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Tracker, it's hard to tell the height from the pic but the fletchings look fairly tall. I always have good luck quieting mine down by trimming down the height.
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They are tall. I figured I'd need more help if the shafts weren't spined right but have since cut them down to about normal height.
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Nice work all the way around Dylan. Good luck on the Turkeys this Spring!
I like the advice of cutting larger diameter and then planing/sanding through the kinks. Sounds like a solid plan.
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Nice arrows!
Thunder
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Those look sweet. I hope you are successful in taking a gobbler with one. I have some shafts drying for building later this year:)
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Very nice. Cool points too.
Where do you harvest ocean spray? Public/random land? How long do you let them dry? Do you leave the bark and seal the ends with wax or something while drying? Or would you leave the leaves on it?
I use hide glue + wrapping for fletching.. ..
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Public, private with permission, or any grey area(like below high water mark on the river). I cut em long and let em season for as long as I feel. These ocean spray were about 5-6 months. Bark on. Leaves shaved off. Bundle and thrown in the spare room.
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Great looking arrows. I normally straighten Ocean Spray while still green bark on. Might go over each shaft 4 or 5 times before it is dry, then debark, and using minimal heat fine tune all the kinks. Only then do I block sand to remove the remaining high points.
You did good on that set, come next Turkey season you will have fresh feathers for new arrows.
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Nice arrows, nice pictures. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your quest for a gobbler.
Bjrogg