Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Stonedog on December 18, 2013, 08:46:27 pm
Title: What brass for 3/8" dowels?
Post by: Stonedog on December 18, 2013, 08:46:27 pm
I have some 3/8" dowels I want to make into small game "flying log" arrows...
Will any caliber brass fit over a 3/8" dowel?
Title: Re: What brass for 3/8" dowels?
Post by: Dharma on December 18, 2013, 09:18:35 pm
.38 Special or .357 Magnum
Title: Re: What brass for 3/8" dowels?
Post by: Grasshopper Mouse on December 18, 2013, 11:04:37 pm
Or... Make it into a nutter. Taper the tip per a regular glue-on point and screw on a 3/8" nut. A drop of epoxy or other glue will help it hold on. They hit hard and they're super easy and cheap.
Guy
Title: Re: What brass for 3/8" dowels?
Post by: Thesquirrelslinger on December 18, 2013, 11:13:18 pm
9mil will fit decently well, or some hot glue and a 9mil. plus, if you have friends that shoot a lot, they are cheap.
Title: Re: What brass for 3/8" dowels?
Post by: Pat B on December 18, 2013, 11:44:56 pm
I agree with Guy. A nutter is deadly on small game with the shock of the hex nut and a little penetration from the tapered point...and cheap. ;)
Title: Re: What brass for 3/8" dowels?
Post by: Stonedog on December 19, 2013, 09:42:45 am
Anyone have any idea how many hex nuts I would need to equal 300 grains? These are actually for my medieval bolt shooting device that shoots 16" OAL bolts ;D...with that short of "arrow" I need them to be FOC heavy to achieve the penetration needed for clean kills.
I already play on shooting 300 grain broad heads!
The idea of nutters with a homemade bleeder blade sounds DEADLY!
Title: Re: What brass for 3/8" dowels?
Post by: mullet on December 19, 2013, 10:34:39 pm
Uh, weigh them. ???
Title: Re: What brass for 3/8" dowels?
Post by: Stonedog on December 20, 2013, 09:25:38 am
'Ah have nae grain scale laddie!
Title: Re: What brass for 3/8" dowels?
Post by: CORIUS on December 20, 2013, 07:50:07 pm
.762mm will fit if u cut off the neck
Title: Re: What brass for 3/8" dowels?
Post by: Thesquirrelslinger on December 20, 2013, 10:14:55 pm
7.62 :) Any of the .30 cal will fit very well. 7.62 base, and the part that holds the powder is rather large- about 1 cm in diam... 7.92 works good. Recently, I have been cutting off the necks of .223 and/or 5.56(almost identical). Its near perfect fit. Literally. And the longer brass adds wieght, allows me to add some lead, and also keeps the shaft from breaking right after the point. If you cut off the base of the cartridge(primer, etc), and then slit the neck, it makes a cheap and easy ferrule. 44 mag work really good on Ceder arrows. They add some weight...
Title: Re: What brass for 3/8" dowels?
Post by: scattershot on December 22, 2013, 06:22:11 pm
I use two 3/8" nuts for my nutters, they weigh 160 grains for both.