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Offline Bitterguy

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Cheap begginer arrow material?
« on: January 03, 2012, 08:06:54 pm »
My dad is convinced that it would be easier and cheaper for me to buy arrows at the store. This being said i was wondering if i could harvest the non broken limb of my red oak lb and if i could just find a cheap straight grain pine 2x4 and make some arrows out of that?
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Offline artcher1

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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2012, 08:35:02 pm »
A nice straight grained poplar board will be a better choice than pine. Or straight grain poplar dowels........Art
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Offline Bevan R.

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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2012, 08:37:47 pm »
I have made shafting from the split ceder fencing. cut some 1/2" blanks then hand planed round.
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Offline jonathan creason

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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2012, 08:40:54 pm »
River cane is the cheapest I've found, i.e. free. 
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Offline seabass

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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2012, 08:52:07 pm »
don't forget multiflora rose.it makes nice shafts and is also free.i don't know where you live,but i'll bet that stuff grows there.
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Offline Bitterguy

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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2012, 09:47:06 pm »
Quote from: seabass on January 03, 2012, 08:52:07 pm
don't forget multiflora rose.it makes nice shafts and is also free.i don't know where you live,but i'll bet that stuff grows there.

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Offline Pat B

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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2012, 01:22:57 am »
You'll have red osier dogwood there too.   Google it!
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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2012, 04:50:07 am »
Everyone would like to have access to things that are cheap, easy to get, and high quality.  Unfortunately, we usually get only two out of three.  For example, if it's cheap and easy to get, it will not be high quality.  You can also make arrows yourself that are cheap and high quality ...but the right skills and materials are not easy to get.
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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2012, 09:58:35 am »
I found doqwls at the box stores and wal mart good about .50 ea
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Offline tenbrook

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« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2012, 11:21:31 am »
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Offline Tom Leemans

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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2012, 04:17:39 pm »
Take a walk through a thicket. You'll find the multiflora rose, or rather it will find you! (Hint: take heavy leather gloves, along with your pruners)
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Offline Ifrit617

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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2012, 04:25:54 pm »
poplar dowels from lowes... Even unspined they fly well and straight with good fletching...

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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2012, 05:46:32 pm »
You wont learn a thing shooting unmatched, unspined arrows. Have your dad spend $30 on used woodies from the classifides. The raw materials mentioned are great but they take skill and knowledge to make into quality shafts. You wont walk out with snippers and come back with a dozen shafts to use the next day. 
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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2012, 06:58:08 pm »
send me a pm with your name and address.i will send you a bundle of cedar shafts to learn on.free of charge.
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Re: Cheap begginer arrow material?
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2012, 07:08:48 pm »
Atta' boy seabass! PM me your adress and I will chop enough feathers to do a half dozen of them, nocks to.
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