Variable-Spine Arrow Challenge
Just as the number of the worlds languages fell by magnitudes after agriculture and civilization, likely the diversity of arrow and bow designs fell by equal numbers and for related reasons. Possibly...
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Rod, what I've been trying to express is to take non-uniform (as in growth ring structure) shafts and orienting them to the bow so as to get their best performance from them. Which in most instances...
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Rod: Agreed, simple shooting tests are suspect, for several reasons. When time allows I'll make another shooting machine, replicating the grip and reaction movement of the human arm and hand. At 20...
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I understand Art, I did after all spend my early years shooting small game with very rudimentary equipment long before I ever saw an archery tournament or an archery equipment dealer.Tim.Having a nock...
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Material: S.Carolina River cane (aka switch cane)Length: Originally 48", now 43" after carelessly shooting something solid.Spine: Not measured but hand bending comparison suggests around 60lb.Weight:...
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"most folks have difficulty in distinguishing between what they as the archer are doing, as opposed to what the equipment is actually doing". Several ways of interpreting that statement Rod. Good shot...
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The ancient Chinese had a saying, "You can deceive yourself, but you cannot deceive the arrow". In my experience most times when folks say that the arrows don't go where they are pointing them, what...
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OH,NO! I don't believe it.Close the schools,business,lets declare a holiday.I can't believe Rod and Art agree.Whooopee! Eddie
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Eddie,Do you know what a "mullet" is in English slang?Rod.
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Rod,Naw,But it's starting to sound like a rehash of when Brian Melton and I met.By the way it's a fish that has supported many a low income family here.Tell us ,pleease.Eddie
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Rod: Thanks for the long cane arrow chronicle. Any updates would be appreciated. Do you have enough cane to play with?Art/Rod: When debating or alone your postings are among the most valualbe here in...
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I want to know what "mullet" means in UK slang! Here, in the U.S., it refers to a 1970's/80's type hair doo - short on top, long in back..."The Mullet"! Or just a plain ole fish, as Eddie pointed...
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Rob,I'm with Tom.You have me curious,I thought I heard them all.Seriously though,like Tim said when you and Art start discussing, you guy's educate the heck out of the rest of us.I hope yall keep it...
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Tom has it. Apparently it's a term for a dubious barnet that we have in common. Presumably Eddie's handle does not imply that he is living with a tonsorial handicap.
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Rod,No I'm losing hair faster than my Dog.If you guys across the pond need some cane I can get plenty.Eddie
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Thanks Eddie,I have about 18 good pieces that Matt Edwards gave me a while back that I was saving to make up some Hindu arrows. What I could use is some good point/insert material, but I think I can...
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I have some hichory shoots,and assorted hardwood,also the flat part of a big moose antler.E-mail me and I'll let you kmow what I have.Eddie
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Thanks Eddie,I'll email you in a while. I put one of my Hindu tanged anvil blunts in the shaft today, just a stiff fit with masking tape wrapped around the tang to stop it falling out.That SOB moved...
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Made an insert target pile out of a piece of moose tine (estimated at a little under 100 grains) so that the 43" river cane arrow could be shot at and retrieved from a target without damage to the...
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Rod: Good report. How would those figures differ if shooting a draw-lenght arrow? Any chance you could do the same sort of test using a 50" to 60" arrow. Tim
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Tim,At the moment I don't have anything over 43" unless I can find some decent bamboo at the garden centre.When Todd recovers from moving house I might be able to get a little of that long nodeless...
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