Growing up, my dad and I made most all of our arrows with supplies we bought from Herters...everything from the shafts to the dipping paints and points. My first set of store bought arrows were a set of Shakespeare Rifled shaft fibreglass arrows. It was 1974 and I was in high school. A buddy's older brother was in the military and he bought us both a dozen from the PX. No idea where those things went over the years. I remember they had the neatest white nocks on them. I used to hunt before and after school and carried them in a brand new kwikee kwiver, without a broadhead hood. None of us knew much about bowhunting then and pretty much just eased along old logging roads.
34 years later and he is eye ball deep in the compounds and asked me if I wanted some of his dad and brother's old junk. Most of it was junk. I went over there this afternoon and picked up a box with 6 of the Shakespeare rifled shafts, just like the first ones I had. Probably from the same batch. Green fibreglass shafts with the yellow logo painted on them, white cock feather and yellow hen feathers, all shield cut. The same little white nock.
There were also 8 Bear metric magnum arrows, size 316. A neat brown color with red fletches and red nocks that have partially dissolved over the years. They have a blue cresting on them that almost look like it was anodized on them. All of them have green razorheads on them. The guy said that 8 was the whole set as Bear sold the metric magnums in an 8 pack instead of dozens. I don't remember that.
Boys does fondling these Shakespeare shafts bring back the memories!
Topic: Old Arrow Memories (Read 619 times)
