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Author Topic: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?  (Read 1174 times)

Offline Whip

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What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« on: December 20, 2007, 09:09:00 PM »
Make Christmas ornaments of course!

 
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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2007, 09:10:00 PM »
:bigsmyl:    :clapper:
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Offline rabbitman

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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2007, 09:15:00 PM »
You're ate up Joe!  :thumbsup:

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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2007, 09:20:00 PM »
No, my arrows are ate up - by rocks and trees and stumps and stuff  :bigsmyl:
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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2007, 09:21:00 PM »
Now that’s making lemonade out of lemons.
Very creative Whip!
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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2007, 09:28:00 PM »
I like it!
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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2007, 09:38:00 PM »
"Reparrows save arrows!"

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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2007, 09:59:00 PM »
Good Ideal but I wouldn't have any room for lights and bulbs if I was to hang all my  broken arrows.

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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2007, 10:20:00 PM »
So far in 2007 I have broken or lost 139 arrows (yes, I count).

 Most of them were broken in a little patch of woods behind the house where I stump shoot. I always launch what's left toward a rock outcropping in the center of the woodlot. Been doing it for years.

The rock pile looks like an arrow grave yard.  :)
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Offline John C Keith

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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2007, 12:03:00 AM »
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I have stared at this pic for like five minutes...  what are those?

I used to make pens from my broken aluminums but don't shoot em anymore.  With woodies, it depends on how short it breaks.  I may make it into a short stumper/ rabbit arra or keep it around until I find a good way to remove the fletching to reuse.  Hey I am cheap!  Usually take a good sniff  on the cedars and send the rest to the kindling pile.
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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2007, 12:09:00 AM »
Very cool Christmas idea.

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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2007, 06:20:00 AM »
Wait! If yours are broke Jason they'll fit me fine!  :bigsmyl:   Don't hang em on the tree. CK

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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2007, 07:17:00 AM »
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Jim:
I have stared at this pic for like five minutes...  what are those?

I used to make pens from my broken aluminums but don't shoot em anymore.  With woodies, it depends on how short it breaks.  I may make it into a short stumper/ rabbit arra or keep it around until I find a good way to remove the fletching to reuse.  Hey I am cheap!  Usually take a good sniff  on the cedars and send the rest to the kindling pile. [/b]
Those are used to repair arrows,I bought 2 dozen from him and they work great.Hardest part is sanding down to smooth the transition on the shaft.They work good for arrows that break right at the point or a few inches back.
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Offline Bone lake

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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2007, 07:31:00 AM »
Great idea, got one more thing to do this weekend.

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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2007, 01:19:00 PM »
Varmit,

I chucked mine up in my crester to slowly rotate the whole shaft, then just wrapped the sandpaper around the shaft & held on to the ends of the paper.  Perfectly smooth at the joint and when re-dipped in Poly, you couldn't feel any indication that they were t separate pieces of wood.

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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #15 on: December 21, 2007, 01:25:00 PM »
That reminds me of the "shotgun santas" a friend made out of old red shotgun shells.  They're cute on the tree.

I've taken broken aluminums and used parts of the shafts to foot my carbon shafts with.
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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #16 on: December 21, 2007, 01:34:00 PM »
Those ornaments are really neat! I'm going to make some tonight.
Jim I love the reparrows-gotta be one of the better archery innovations around!

Offline Gene Roberts

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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #17 on: December 21, 2007, 03:18:00 PM »
Sweet,I havent broken an arrow yet.(A few months)
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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #18 on: December 21, 2007, 03:22:00 PM »
'mater steaks!
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Re: What Do You Do With Broken Arrows?
« Reply #19 on: December 21, 2007, 05:21:00 PM »
I'd thought about making a bullseye out of plywood and paint the red,blue,yellow and white circles, and then drilling a few holes the size of the broken shafts and gluing the shafts in the holes.It would look pretty cool in a shop or something.   :knothead:
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