arrow trade ( update to help out Mudd! )

[Paul Mattson]

Is list going to be made?  There are alot of people with double post.

[chadt1]

count me in

[LongbowGuy83]

I think DVS should just draw em. Or not, cause this is my third or fourth post. I'd get a bunch o' arras.      

[DVSHUNTER]

yeah I will draw names like I have said in all posts. I wil post the final list after interest has stopped or the 31st of jan whichever comes first. It looks like interest is fading, but I will give it a bit more time. I will change the topic after I draw the names. Everyone will be given a name to contact. Only send to one person as you will only have one name. This is not a "swap", more of a blind trade line. Hpe this clears any questions. Dave

[Killdeer]

[bornagainbowhunter]

this is almost like waiting for a long skinny box from the mail lady...Only it will be a short skinny box, but it will have the same amount of anticipation.

[Stiks-n-Strings]

Thanks for clearing this up Dave.
I get easily confused sometimes, So my wife tells me LOL

up for some arra tradin

[LongbowGuy83]

Originally posted by bornagainbowhunter:
this is almost like waiting for a long skinny box from the mail lady...Only it will be a short skinny box, but it will have the same amount of anticipation.

Speaking of which... What's the best and cheapest way to send one arra? Company and packaging please.  

[lpcjon2]

Bubble rap and a cardboard roll

[Cmalone1]

I'm in!! Can't Wait to see this go through!!

[Killdeer]

I usually use a triangular box from the post office. That being said, they are not indestructible.



Now how in the world did THAT happen?   :mad:  
Fortunately, the two arrows inside were not broken. They are treasures sent to me by Charlie Lamb.

The very best packaging I have seen came from Dano. It was a heavy tube that fits inside another heavy tube (the inside tube is brown, the outside tube is white) and two foam disks inside that. Each disk has a hole in the center to hold the arrow, keeping it away from the wall of the tube. There is a metal cap at each end of the white tube. One end of the white tube has been circumferentially cut, making  a lid that you pull off. The fit is tight enough that when you pull the end off, there is a light vacuum created!

Very safe and rugged packaging. I am not that safe and rugged. First thing I did was cut myself on the wicked edge of his single-bevel trade point!   :rolleyes:

I am sending a carbon, so I don't expect that to get broken. If you send arrows in the mail, be sure to safeguard the heads, so that in the event of a package failure, nobody will get hurt. Parcels in the post office are frequently thrown ten or more feet, landing in big hampers. Sometimes your arrow may go in first, followed by a box of grapefruit going to my Aunt Thelma from Mr. Mergatroydd in Florida, so pack with that in mind. That being said, the USPS has a good reputation for getting stuff where it should go without a lot of trauma. I work for them, but that isn't why they are my shipper of choice.

Killdeer

[LongbowGuy83]

Yea, that's how I usually send em Killdeer. I might figure something different out. We shall see. PM sent Killdeer

[DVSHUNTER]

looks again like we may have everyone, but I will send it up again for today.

[Killdeer]

All those nerds with nothing to do on a Friday night could push the trade numbers up into the hundreds!

Um, I am usually here on a Friday night.
Killdeer    

[DVSHUNTER]

I wouldn't be here friday night if it weren't for the wife, kids, no jobs, bowshop... I guess we will see. We are right sround 40 now.

[snag]

How would this work? If I shoot 85# spined shafts and someone else shoots 50#...? Or are you just sending what you have and it doesn't matter?

[lpcjon2]

Its like a token thing you don't have to shoot it sign the shaft and send it.Its memorabilia

[LongbowGuy83]

Yea, cause one day I might be famous and that one lucky person will have a autographed arra from the 21st century Howard Hill type. Be worth alot of money.  

[bornagainbowhunter]

LongbowGuy83 hitting what you look at is just a technicality...

[LongbowGuy83]

Hahahaha. That's what I tell all the guys in the club. But they just look at me like I'm stupid. I mean, don't we do this just to have fun?