Archery on a budget...lets share

[monterey]

Ditto on the *make my own stuff* thing.  Also end up making a lot of it for other family members.  Been doing it for years but got started not so much to save as just cause I love to make this stuff myself.

I've made some bows for others as gifts and a few that I've sold to support the addiction.  Getting ready to make two more for family members.

Going to start making my own shafts but wonder if it will be an economy measure or not!!

[arklongbowman]

Guys I really enjoy listening to you.  Hunting has gotten real expensive, even Traditional.  I refinish arrows, trade stuff and watch local yard sales.  Can't believe stuff people sell and don't know what its worth.  I've bought a dozen mismatched arrows and refinished them, keep the ones I can use and trade or sell the rest.  Oh, I too hunt public land, work a little harder and walk a little farther but the game is there, just find them.
----------MikeY

[breid]

Yard sales are great to pick up used gear.  I got a coleman lantern for $0.25.  They had no idea if it worked.  I just had to go get a new mantle, cause someone dropped it.  Also got 2 fishing nets for an extra $0.75.  My buddy got me a bear kids recurve for a buck at an auction.

Other than that, I am unemployed so there is no buying going on till I get a new job and pay off the student loans.  But, I haunt the Cabelas bargain cave and wait until they have the employee days or just beg the manager to drop the price.  I got a dozen 2018 Camo hunters for under $20.  Apparently not many people shoot them.  Good day for me.  Wife also got a $150 cot for like $50 because they were missing a piece for the cross post that didn't even matter.  Piece of wood fixed that.

[Frank]

I'm building a two piece osage flatbow.  I just find it hard to part with 30 plus dollars for a sleeve and insert.  So I've been racking my brain trying to come up with ideas.

BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Downstairs on the wall, hanging, are 6 - 15' long top bar steel pipe sections for the tops of fences.  Picked it out of the trash on a construction site I was on.  Started looking at it, one end is a female 1 1/8", the male is a 1" both round.  Perfect......just saved 30 plus dollars.

While on a construction site yesterday, I ventured over to the knocked over tree area.  Last visit, I found a beautiful 20' long straight cedar tree, 5" at base tapering up to less than an inch.  Alright, I needed a new one pole tent post and it even smells good.

Well yesterday, I look over and there is this pretty straight elm tree, noticed a nice 70" long section.  All I had was a pvc hand saw, so I got to work.

That's 4 nice bow stave this summer.

It's there, you just have to see it.

[44charlie]

roger the dumpster diving and tree piles on construction site. my work truck is always full of stuff i find.

sell or trade everything i don't use or need.

look for a place to hunt within ten miles of home. i can walk to most of my hunting spots and i live in the "burbs"!

share anything and everything, buy as a last resort!

try to make it first before buying.

give things away -- it will come back in time! and just at the right time!

[NDTerminator]

Always have kept a good supply of arrows, shafts, and arrow building components on hand.  I'm good to go for years...