Bamboo arrows

[Key]

I picked up a bundle of bamboo when I was at a craft store with my wife. Got it cheap, 10 pc around 10 foot long. Today I made two arrows out of some that spinned out where I need them. I shot them and well, they flu ok but they are real strieght.
with a 125 gr tip they weight right at 750 gr.

How can I strieghten them and have any of you guys used them with stone tips to hunt deer with.

[Hillbilly]

Bamboo straightens easily with heat. Just carefully heat the spot you want to straighten until it starts to "sweat", at which point it becomes plastic. I like to do the sections between nodes first, then straighten the nodes themselves. Be sure to let the spot you were bending cool down before straightening another section of the same shaft, or it will keep bending as you work the other spot.
Bamboo arrows are hard to beat for hunting, and work great with stone tips.

[Key]

Thanks Hillbilly, I will use my heat gun and streighten them up some. A friend of my made four stone hunting tips for me. I will attach them to some of the bamboo arrows I make. I am just putting field times on the first ones to see how they will work out.