fiberglass arrows

[Stone Knife]

I hoard Micro-Flites, I also have some of those Herters Farbenglass with the Herters Broadheads on them. I was going to sell them but now you guy's got me thinking about killing a deer or turkey with them  

[chanumpa]

They were great arrows.I liked them alott.I also like the Martin graphlex.They were tough.Probably were expensive to produce.Had a few scares with ones that would have a lil crack and not see it.

[Ray Lyon]

My friends and I bought a bunch of Microflite #12's around 1980 at an outdoor show in Michigan from a vendor who was trying to unload them.  I shot them for a number of years and they were very rugged. When I was getting low on them and switched back to wood arrows, I gave what I had left to Steve Turay since he's a great guy, bowyer and the only guy I knew at the time using heavy enough bows to use them. Microflite shafting makes a very good arrow.  The straightness tolerance wasn't quite as good as aluminum, so many back in the day went with aluminum.  Also, as Fred Asbell has written, there has been a heavy arrow/light arrow swing throughout the last fifty years in archery and I think the heavy Microflite shafting gave way to the lighter aluminum shafting in the eighties. The late eighties and early nineties seemed to be the resurgence of the wood arrow when traditional was starting to gain popularity again.

[E.AllenIII]

Thanks for all of the insight guys

[Bill Carlsen]

I think that the old Herter's Farbenglass arrows were as tough  as they come. They were heavy, hit like a hammer. Too bad they went out of business. I remember shooting at a woodchuck once with a Farbenglass arrow and a Herter's RAM X broadhead. The chuck was in an old abandoned stone foundation. I missed but the arrow stuck in a rock and the tip didn't even bend and the shaft never split.

[Doc Nock]

I donated a dozen of the Gordon GlasShafts in I-60. They take 2018 internal components and were pretty darned tough.

I shot big fat dark green buggars in my youth...NO recollection, but thought maybe...maybe "Lamiglass"?-- split a 3" maple tree with a direct (mis-directed) hit. Had to saw the sucker off to split it to get my undamaged shaft back!

ABS experiemented with an internal fiberglass composite on early Grizzly Sticks.

[bear1336]

Use Mico's for years loved them, wish I had a doz #6 now....

[NorthernCaliforniaHunter]

Cool! Keep us posted guys!
 
Here I thought the fiberglass shafts were for kids bows...

[Huntschool]

Not for kids, silly wabbit.....  LOL

They were some tough arrows.  I have them listed in a 1969 Bear cat.  Micro-flite targets and Kodiak Supreme Hunting.  $42.00 for the target and $41.75 cut to length with Razor Heads per doz.

WoW, would I like those prices for those arrows....

I serve the end with epoxy and fishing rod serving thread and always use glue in inserts since they are longer and don/t break out like the shorter converta point inserts.  Out of my heavy bows i used #12s with a wood dowel inside, then tapered the dowels sticking out to glue points onto.  Out of Hill style longbows, they are just about the perfect amount of weight and recovery speed.  I would not use them if i were you, it would be way better if you sold them to me.

[frank bullitt]

If you want to know more and see more about the Micro,and other glass shafts, ask over on the History forum.

I like my stash of Graphlex, too!

[NancyVTAS]

I just came across 35- #8 -28 3/4" bop with Bear broadheads on 22 of them.  Blunts and field tips on the rest. The bears have been sharpend but not shot. Any interest ????

[kurtbel5]

Hi Nancy
Could you give me more info?
    Kurt