ACME PREMIUM SHAFTS!

[snag]

Just received 80 beautiful POC shafts in 65-70# spine weight in the original box. Seems funny these went to the midwest and then decades later back to Oregon where they were made from POC. I look forward to making some special arrows out of these. They are slightly burnished. I haven't weighed them yet.

[The Whittler]

Congrats on the shafts, and don't forget when you finish them.

[freeman]

I picked up a dozen of these for a set of custom arrows I made for my father. They definately put todays "premium" shafts to shame.

[snag]

They came in the original box too! Kind of cool.

 

 

[Killdeer]

Treasure!  

[snag]

That's it Killie. When I went to unwrap it I felt like I had been entrusted with a treasure. That I had the responsibility to care for these, to carefully craft an arrow that would be fitting of these shafts. I hope to kill a Blacktail buck with one of these this year, with a Blacktail bow...the circle will be complete at that point!

[stump man]

Snag:

 if you don't mind me asking, what were they worth    ?

  Just got me thinking I had a box in the closet somewhere.. after looking, sure enough!! Still in the original ACME box 60-65lb spine. Must be near 200 of them. All weighed and matched for mass weight between 400 and 500 gr. Gotta be worth a nickel or two nowdays huh?..paid .25 cents apiece for em in 1985     .
stump

[Ray Lyon]

I love Acme premium shafts. I'm down to my last 1 1/2 dozen of them that I got from John Grumley (Nel's son) years ago. He lives close by and he didn't have any use for the 65-70 and 70-75 shafts in his 1000 shaft lot that he got from Acme years and years ago. They are the nicest shafts I've worked with and all 11/32. Great grain and if they were warped, it was a long, gentle bend and very easily straightened.  It's a shame they're still not made. I paid him $15 a dozen for them years ago and they were grain weighed to within 10 grains and in 5 pound groups, with most being within 2-3 pounds.

Congratulations on your find.

[SCATTERSHOT]

Hey, Stump... If you find out what you need for 'em, let me know. I may be in for a couple dozen.

Thanks,
Gene

[snag]

These were about $2.25 a shaft. If anyone wants to sell any ACME shafts I will always be an interested buyer.

[laddy]

i have a dozen 80-85s two dozen 60s and two dozen 50s stored.  I will need to start using them this year.

[John McCreary]

If I can be so bold, how did you aquire these? Trade?

John

[laddy]

I bought them thirty years ago, i bought a dealers size order and that is what I have left.  No trade sorry.

[Bjorn]

I sent some to Ted at Raptor Archery and he footed them with Wenge and Purpleheart-dozen of each. They have real good FOC and are insanely beautiful!!

[snag]

Good idea Bjorn. I think I will do that with a doz. Thanks for the idea.

[d. ward]

Good hit Dave......That may even rank and little above the word treasure for me...Those are pricless at bowdocs place......I have never shot anything but wood from recurves or long bows,I don't mean to knock whatever folks like to use.But to me...6 woodies with Bear razorheads in a bow quiver at sun-up and I'am there.....bowdoc

[snag]

A few of these might fly good out of a really beautiful recurve someone just refinished for me!!!

[SCATTERSHOT]

[Rik]

Ah, I can still remember the smell of tapering premium ACME shafts on my front porch back when I used to buy them for $40 per 100------elk killers they were, real elk killers. Man, those were the days!

[Chad Sivertsen]

Yup Rik, those were the days. Remember when you walked into an archery shop and the smell of cedar was intense? I'm gonna go taper some old Acme cedars just so I can smell them.

Good to see you survived winter.