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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: recurve shooter on July 27, 2009, 07:34:09 pm

Title: penetration for new arrows! sorry folks, im proud of em!
Post by: recurve shooter on July 27, 2009, 07:34:09 pm

i know i have posted a few threads about my new arrows, which are by no means primitive, but im verry proud of them. they are 31 inch cherry shafts, natrual turkey fletch with orange goose cock feather. plastic nocks  ::), and 125 grain field points with diamond back rattler wraps from just forward of the fletches for about 5 inches.

i finally got to go do some shooting today, and on top of shooting verry well, these babys pack a punch! my target was made to stop my grandpa's store bought hunting crossbow bolts, and it dose. it is six layers of carpet with a layer of foam in the middle. these arrows went compleatly through and stuck about eight inches into the mulch pile that it was resting on. i thought this was really good penitration, what do yall think?

Title: Re: penetration for new arrows! sorry folks, im proud of em!
Post by: jamie on July 27, 2009, 09:56:13 pm

yup, thatll do it. how heavy was the bow?

Title: Re: penetration for new arrows! sorry folks, im proud of em!
Post by: recurve shooter on July 27, 2009, 10:20:33 pm

55 @ 28

Title: Re: penetration for new arrows! sorry folks, im proud of em!
Post by: Sleep Junkie on July 27, 2009, 11:38:28 pm

Wow, glad to hear they are working for ya.  You say that they are not that primitive, but we all gotta start somewhere right?  One step at a time, that's how I look at it.

Title: Re: penetration for new arrows! sorry folks, im proud of em!
Post by: Cromm on July 28, 2009, 06:12:51 am

Less words more PHOTO'S of the arrows!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: penetration for new arrows! sorry folks, im proud of em!
Post by: recurve shooter on July 28, 2009, 12:03:42 pm

Quote from: Cromm on July 28, 2009, 06:12:51 am

Less words more PHOTO'S of the arrows!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D

getting back home tonight, i'll be sure to get them up.

and these were the first arrows i have actually had to streighten, taper, sand, and finish, so i feel a little more connected to them.  ;D

Title: Re: penetration for new arrows! sorry folks, im proud of em!
Post by: Ian Johnson on July 28, 2009, 07:54:08 pm

your welcome for those arrows trey, get the rest tapered so I can fletch the rest of them for you

Title: Re: penetration for new arrows! sorry folks, im proud of em!
Post by: recurve shooter on July 28, 2009, 10:29:07 pm

ian those things are a pain. i'll work on a few more when i get back.

Title: Re: penetration for new arrows! sorry folks, im proud of em!
Post by: islandpiper on August 10, 2009, 10:59:56 pm

Ian......when you fletch Trey's arrows see if you can get the three feathers placed EVENLY around the shaft.  And, take a look at the nock and see where the fletching is.  Those you did for me work.........but i might need to cut a slot in the bow for the fletching to go by!! :)Piper

Title: Re: penetration for new arrows! sorry folks, im proud of em!
Post by: medicinewheel on August 11, 2009, 01:49:07 am

Quote from: recurve shooter on July 27, 2009, 07:34:09 pm

i know i have posted a few threads about my new arrows, ...

Your arrows are very nice!
If you wish, if it makes you feel good, if you think they deserve it, or more info needs to be shared: go ahead and have another thread about them!
That's what we are here for: to share what we have made and what we are proud of and to let friends know how the stuff works! Right?!  ;D ;D ;D