Who Remebers Herter's Farbenglas?

[RkyMtn Joe]

I am assuming that most older readers will recall the Herter's people.  I have a huge variety of their equipment including reloading tools and some archery equipment.  I had two of their Elkhide back quivers stolen from me along with 4 dozen of their farbenglas shafts.(I had over 4 thousand dollars worth of archery equipment alone stolen from me in a burglary and which has never been found.

Their Farbenglas shafts were heavy as I remember, but when matched to your bow, they shot amazingly well.  Anyone else ever use them?  I wish I had some now.  I live for the day when I walk into a shop or flea market and find some of my gear.  It will make a feature movie LOL.

My question is, what carbon arrows when cut to 29 1/8" and shot from a 48# bow at 28* draw do I need for good flight.  I don't understand how the carbon  system works---i.e. what size for what poundage etc.

Herter's had numbers, and I could match my weight, draw length etc to their numbers and get the right size.  I'd love to find some more of them.

Joe

[MikeM]

I shot the Herter's farbenglass as a teenager. They were a tough shaft and were heavier than the cedars which I also shot. But in southwest Texas where I hunted the farbenglas shafts didn't break like the cedars.

[Fletcher]

I still have a few from my teen days.  Pretty good shaft for back then.  Sorry Joe, but I don't know carbons from corn.  Best wishes on runnig across some of your old stuff.  Always enjoyed the Herter's catalog.  Everything they had was the best there ever was.

[fredhill]

i have a 1968 Herter's catalog my father gave me. He used to order all his firearm reloading stuff from them. just last week i got it off the shelf and was reading about their German farbenglass backed bows and glass arrows. i saw that Bob Barrie of Rocky Mnt. Broadhead fame was their head of the archery division back then.

[Shawn Leonard]

Joe some more info on bow is needed. Is it high performance, is it cut past center, recurve longbow even the exact make and model? I can get ya darn close with that info! Shawn

[kill shot]

I remember looking at the Herters catalog till I was blue in the face. They sold snowmobiles, trail bikes, weatherby rifles, and archery. Lots more than that. It was a catalog full of adventure.

[barley40]

I ordered some stuff from Herter's back in the day. Had some farbenglas arrows. I guess I used them up long ago.

[akbowbender]

Got my first bow killed deer with a Farbenglas arrow tipped with a RamMX broadhead if I remember right.

[Hit-or-Miss]

I have a Herters solid Farbenglas recurve bow, 65#. It feels like it pulls much heavier, and stacks like crazy, but for a cheap bow, it sure casts a fast arrow.

I was going through my grandparents estate items last week, and I found a spool of Herters thread. Herters sold everything!

[Stone Knife]

I saw some Herters traps at a yard sale, and I bought these off an older guy I know never been shot 55-70

   

   

[mahantango]

Were the arrows the same Farbenglass used to back the bows? I have a couple Herters bows, and always thought the odd mustard-colored glass was interesting and unique, and wondered why no one else ever used it. The examples I have seen seem to have held up really well. My Turkish Hunter is 50 years old (same as me) and even the original leather grip is as good as the day it left the factory.

[RkyMtn Joe]

The arrows were a tan color---shows up pretty good in that photo from stone knife.