Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: sonny on August 23, 2009, 11:26:11 am
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Well I haven't finished a bow since last summer but recently got the itch to make some small game arrows as squirrel season starts on Sept 5th.
So here's a dozen flu-flus- seven of which are self-nocked ramin dowels (the best I could find at the hardware store where I bought 'em,) the rest are crown dipped cedar that I've had around for a while.
There's one on the left that's flipped upside down to show the steel blunt.
....now that I've gotten my arrow-making "fix".. maybe I can finish a bow before archery deer season begins in early Oct. :D
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btw the self-nocks are reinforced with a silk wrapping set in super glue.
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Those oughta do the job. What kind of blunts do you like for squirrels?
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I've never hunted just for squirrels but hope I can connect using the steel blunts I used on these arrows.
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Sonny, the simplest and cheapest small game hear I have used is called a nutter. It is a plain old hex nut from the hardware store threaded on to the tapered end of the shaft. I usually add super glue but it is not needed. The end of the taper sticks out of the nut for penetration and the nut adds the shock.
Every squirrel l I've shot with one hit the ground dead!
Nice looking arrows, by the way! ;)
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That looks like some fine work on those self-nocks, I have been skeptical about self-nocks until I looked at your arrows, right well done:)
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hey Pat, yea I've heard of nutters. Even made a couple some time ago....have 'em in one of my quivers, somewhere I reckon.
but I had ordered those steel blunts a couple of months ago, decided to get off my lazy butt and make some arrows with 'em.
thanks Zanshen!
got a few hours in these arrows. I hope I don't lose any of 'em........though I suppose it'll be worth it just for the shear enjoyment of scaring the bejeezers
out of some squirrels ;)
oh yea, first time using fletch tape which is well worth the money !!!!!!!!
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Those turned out well Glenn
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I keep forgetting who Sonny is. :-[
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Good luck with the squirrels and nice work on the arrows. Hope they don't all end up lost and broken, that is what happens to me when shooting up into the trees.
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Happiness is a full quiver. :)
In the UK it's illegal to hunt with the bow, even vermin....
I get big fat wood pigeons in the garden which would be very tasty :(.
Del
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i really like them nocks. great work!
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Oh man, you can't hunt with a bow in England? Do we need to reconquer you to free you!
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Oh man, you can't hunt with a bow in England? Do we need to reconquer you to free you!
Hmmm, Maybe, but we'd need to keep our football (soccer), fish n chips, BBC TV. We'd want to stay driving on left.
Oh and puhleeeease no basketball. ;)
Del
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Oh man, you can't hunt with a bow in England? Do we need to reconquer you to free you!
There's me thinking you are an american zeNBowyer???
And as far as I remember they have never conquered the UK... ;D
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Did'nt have to do more than run them back to the other side of the pond. Wood pigeon's in the garden sound like a job for a slingshot. Are those illegal to have over there ? ' Frank
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And there's me thinking that we left you on the other side of the pond..... ;D
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DO NOT EVER FORGET the freedoms we take for granted in this great country of ours. WE happen to be a nation of action while other nations people simply get to watch us hunt, fish, and enjoy the outdoors the way our grandfathers enjoyed it, and sadly their great grandfathers enjoyed it. Ps a .41 mag shell casing Illegal in the UK wrapped with tie wire makes an absolutely DEVASTATING head, I once killed a porcupine that weighed over 25 lbs with one.
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DO NOT EVER FORGET the freedoms we take for granted in this great country of ours. WE happen to be a nation of action while other nations people simply get to watch us hunt, fish, and enjoy the outdoors the way our grandfathers enjoyed it, and sadly their great grandfathers enjoyed it. Ps a .41 mag shell casing Illegal in the UK wrapped with tie wire makes an absolutely DEVASTATING head, I once killed a porcupine that weighed over 25 lbs with one.
;D ;D ;D