Archery

[ozzy1977]

I think the only drawback to our sort of gear is the feather fletchings as they don't like the wet, the wood shafts are not a problem with a good varnish coating.

And I have found the secret to not loosing or breaking arrows, and that is to make 3 dozen all the same just so you have a bunch of spares, its worked for me . before I did I would make a dozen, loose or break 1 almost on every outing, get short and build another set and so on, not any more I am still on the same 3 I used in July for comps

 

[ozzy1977]

Steve I thought you had a take down Samick or was that zombie slayer pic you posted a little while ago an old one?

 

[Cromm]

It's a Phantom 2 samick td,
Yeah that is what i have done in the past with arrows, bit like Trigger and his broom.

 

[Cromm]

This is it, unless it was my Sage bow.

 

[Cromm]

Oh the fun.

 

[ozzy1977]

Horn nocks, whats going on the other end?

 

[Cromm]

Some will have field points for club shoots, other will have these

 

[ozzy1977]

Interesting heads, where did you get them?

 

[Cromm]

The USA, they are made from jack hammer drill bits if I remember rightly, he doesn't make them anymore, I have some broad heads that are razor sharp too from him.

 

[Cromm]

Slowly getting there, not to happy with the results, but will try something different next time.

 

[ozzy1977]

Nice work Steve, what are the shafts?

 

[Cromm]

Pine ozzy with a stain to them to protect them.

 

[Cromm]

Put some fletchings on a few of the shafts to see how they flew, not bad at all.

 

[dwardo]

Put some fletchings on a few of the shafts to see how they flew, not bad at all.

I see you chose looks over function too. All of my arrows are designed to immediately disappear in the woods when you miss the target.
I keep meaning to make all mine bright and gordy so they stand out but they look awful.

 

[ozzy1977]

Was shooting with a chap a couple of weeks ago who had painted his shafts white and had bright fletchings which should have been easyto find, but were far from it I think that he lost 4 or 5 that outing.

 

[Big Stu 12]

LOL... I know from my bright Fletching mine never get found...

 

[mrcharly]

My technique for finding my arrows went like this:
1) stand at target
2) look somewhere else, because wherever my arrows were, it almost certainly not in the target.

 

[ozzy1977]

One that went AWOL for a while we found on our second time around when I looked back to the butt from the next red peg and it was 8' up a tree 20' to the right of the target

 

[Cromm]

It is the life ambition of an arrow to get itself lost or broken, it is the life ambition of the archer to make it not happen.

 

[Cromm]

I've shot carbon arrows with lummnoks and still lost them.