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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: swamp monkey on January 21, 2017, 06:14:27 pm

Title: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
Post by: swamp monkey on January 21, 2017, 06:14:27 pm
These are replicas inspired by assorted tribes across the eastern United States woodlands  I started work on them last spring and recently finished them up.

These were split or cut shafts of hickory with one or two oak thrown in there.  Most of the originals were not fletched.  Three of them I ended up fletching because that is what the originals had. 
Title: Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
Post by: make-n-break on January 21, 2017, 07:00:25 pm
Awesome! Always wanted to try self blunts. Nice missiles!
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Post by: Trapper Rob on January 21, 2017, 09:18:06 pm
Those are very nice. Those are on my to do list.
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Post by: selfbow joe on January 21, 2017, 11:08:57 pm
Very nice looking arrows.  How good do they fly.
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Post by: penderbender on January 21, 2017, 11:09:46 pm
Those are very cool! I wanna try some of those too! Cheers- Brendan
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Post by: bjrogg on January 22, 2017, 07:07:01 am
Nice arrows swamp monkey those look like they would do the job they where designed for
Bjrogg
Title: Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
Post by: swamp monkey on January 22, 2017, 09:01:02 am
Thanks for the kind words folks.  as for flight.  They do well.  One had some slight symmetry problems and flies off to one side.  Blunts really need to be perfect all the way down till they meet the shaft.  Thanks for looking. 
Title: Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
Post by: Trapper Rob on January 22, 2017, 09:04:51 pm
What size wood did you start out with?
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Post by: Pappy on January 23, 2017, 08:59:51 am
Very nice set of arrows. :)
 Pappy
Title: Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
Post by: swamp monkey on January 23, 2017, 08:39:31 pm
On the big green one I started with a 1" square blank.  The others were 1/2" blanks.
Title: Re: Self arrows blunts and broadhead
Post by: DC on January 23, 2017, 08:44:17 pm
The blunts look like the arrows we made when I was a kid. We never had feathers when we wanted them and the big blunt put the weight forward so they would fly OK. I never considered them "real" arrows. I guess I was wrong.