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Offline Pappy

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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #15 on: September 13, 2007, 09:37:36 am »
Neat arrows,I'll say one thing for you ,you are about the most resourceful guy I have ever seen
use what you have on hand. :) :) How do they fly with no tips.I have lost tips before and they go everywhere but where you want them to. ???
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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #16 on: September 13, 2007, 06:09:23 pm »
I might try the fluorescent colored duct tape (orange or pink).  It would make finding my arrows a lot easier. 
Then again, more target practice might help too! :P
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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #17 on: September 13, 2007, 07:22:36 pm »
Quote from: Pappy on September 13, 2007, 09:37:36 am
Neat arrows,I'll say one thing for you ,you are about the most resourceful guy I have ever seen
use what you have on hand. :) :) How do they fly with no tips.I have lost tips before and they go everywhere but where you want them to. ???
   Pappy

Thanks ;D. As far as tips, I just left them a few inches longer than my draw. Seemed to help. Seems that heavier the shaft, the shorter they need to be when left long? If that makes sense :D. Light shafts= really longer, heavy shafts= just a little bit longer. That sums it up :). Helps with the weight aat the bow or somehting (was in some of the back issues of PA, I believe Ken Wee talked about it?)
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Offline david w.

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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #18 on: September 18, 2007, 12:33:00 am »
i made one and i was suprised how well they flew.  The duct tape flew good and i put a nut on the end
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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2007, 01:45:05 pm »
Quote from: jamie on September 08, 2007, 11:20:50 pm
quick thinkin". fired hardened tips are very deadly. i was shooting 50 yrds at a tennins ball on a string. there is a plywood panel behind the target. the field tips barely stuck. the fire hardened tips were punching holes through the wood panel. they work

Wow, sounds good. I don't have any experience of fire hardening wood though. What's the technique? What temp and for how long?
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Offline Kegan

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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #20 on: September 23, 2007, 05:15:04 pm »
Take tip, stick in fire till black ;D. Then grind on sandstone/sand paper until you removed the worst of the charred wood- that's it. Works great :).
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Offline david w.

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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2007, 05:54:31 pm »
i made 7 squirrel arras today. i tipped them with nutters and 38 caliber empties.  withe the 38s i took out the primmer and inserted a nail.

i used ducttape for 6 of them and on 1 i split the shaft and put in a feather they work good should go squirrel hunting soon.
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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #22 on: September 26, 2007, 04:45:45 pm »
Those are goldenrod shafts, Kegan. What did you trade to me?  I can't recall.
 Anyway  if you put the big end in the front it gives you a pretty high forward of center weight which makes for an easily guided arrow. I bet you'd find that they fly pretty good fletchless at short range.
 SOMEBODY SEND THIS FELLER SOME FEATHERS! :o :o ;)
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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #23 on: September 26, 2007, 06:26:16 pm »
Quote from: Minuteman on September 26, 2007, 04:45:45 pm
Those are goldenrod shafts, Kegan. What did you trade to me?  I can't recall.
 Anyway  if you put the big end in the front it gives you a pretty high forward of center weight which makes for an easily guided arrow. I bet you'd find that they fly pretty good fletchless at short range.
 SOMEBODY SEND THIS FELLER SOME FEATHERS! :o :o ;)

Stingers. And I don't think they're golden rod, I believ you called them orange something or other? Alot harder stuff. Most of the old golden rod arrows are stashed away for hand drills ;D. And I'm finding a few feathers. Our neighboring turkeys are kind enough to give me one or two every week ;).
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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2007, 08:34:32 pm »
Hmmmm! How do you keep the duct tape from cutting your hand as you shoot them?
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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #25 on: September 27, 2007, 12:02:12 pm »
Thats right, they are mock orange. ??? Got a bush here by the house and a huge batch of it at my parents place.
 How tough was it to straighten them?
 You need to find some nearby turkey hunters and get to know them . They usually will give you the wing feathers for the asking. Not that theres anything wrong with duct tape... if yer name is MacGuyver! ;)
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Offline Kegan

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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #26 on: September 27, 2007, 06:30:48 pm »
I really didn't bother much with straightenning. Most were "pretty straight", and the nock and point and nock ligned up, so I figrued to shoot them as is. They work well, even a little crooked. But I don't like the ducctape, Just somehting to put on arrows to keep the ends from flinging forward.

So far in two days I've come across four feathers- both days the two feathers (large, perfect wing) matched, enough for two arrows :). Eoither I'll try to make nice with the turkeys, or if they stay roosted where they are (nice and out in the open) for a month I'll just get some feathers and a nice turkey dinner >:D
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Re: Made some meat makers
« Reply #27 on: September 28, 2007, 01:26:34 am »
     Ah yes, Duct tape, it's not just for baby sitting anymore......


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