New wooden arrow point loading and internal footing jig!

[Rob DiStefano]

the new 11/32" jigs work just great and will accommodate a fat 11/32" shaft down to a 5/16" shaft (if 2 or 3 layers of blue 3m tape are used).

i've drilled and loaded poc, fir, chundoo, ash and hex pine shafts - all were easy and the results are perfect.  in my extensive field testing, this internal footing really beefs up the durability of any wood shaft.

imo, a 'must have' for any aficionado of wood arrows.

[Firstarrow]

Rob, you may have stated it elsewhere ... did you poke your hog with these beefed up shafts?

Thanks,
Rich

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by Firstarrow:
Rob, you may have stated it elsewhere ... did you poke your hog with these beefed up shafts?

Thanks,
Rich

for my hunt i used beman ics 500 carbons.  it's been a long time since i've messed with woodies and my arrow confidence level for this hog adventure was much higher going with what i'm most familiar shooting.  

i absolutely plan on assembling a dozen footed woodies (hex pines), testing and sorting, and using on a future hunt.

[Roadkill]

I have been building these for several years.  Used to strenghthen shafts with bamboo skewers in this rocky terrain.  We now use them to weight up the fronts and sometimes lighten up the tails to make them more dynamically stable.
I make them here on the airport in the machine shop out of scrap.  they work so verry well and you can make an arrow blend with a bow.  Gr8 idea whose time has come....