yall have got me determined.

[Pat B]

Cheapshot, I don't use an oven but I have heard of folks doing so. I either hold over the flame, rotating and moving back and forth, until it heats up well and becomes plasticized then lay it on a flat surface until it cools completely or lay them under my wood stove for a while. On hardwood shoots I hold them over a flame until it scorches then move on to another area. This also gives a nice camo pattern to the arrows.    Pat

ps. the arrow shafts below are the ones that went with the Southern Community Bow Set. There are 3 different hardwoods and you can see the scorching on 3 of them.

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[DanaM]

OK Pat, gotcha now - wil giver a try .
 Kenneth, I am now removing foot from mouth . I don't know where I dreamed up Lil bucky, I was thinking about Elkie .

Paul you been hittin the shine again  Pat had Lil Bucky also his cardboard cut out deer decoy.

[cowboy]

Ahha! I knew I didn't just dream that up . I thought maybe I was getting it from the little buckskin I used to ride all the time when I was younger - boy we had some adventures. He wasn't too impressed when I slung the dead rattlesnake over the back of the saddle that time though .