how much does your finished hunting arrow cost?

[nightowl1]

Great job Andy

Care to explain the bulk costume source more?

[Horner]

Who cares as long as you had fun smashing it, losing it, or getting it all bloody.  You can't put a price on FUN!!!!      

[ChuckC]

Like some above, I really don't want to consider cost.  With a Grizzly stick shaft and one of several heads that cost in the 30 dollar each neighborhood, you can easliy eclipse 50 dollars each.  

I hunt in a marsh.  If from a tree, missed shots can easily be recovered, but from the ground, a miss is likely gone.  Makes you really think about your shots and I think there is enough pressure to make a fine shot without the worry of a clean miss breaking the bank.
ChuckC

[AndyTheCornbread]

Originally posted by nightowl1:
Great job Andy

Care to explain the bulk costume source more?

No problem I don't know what the policy is here for non-sponsor site links so I won't post a direct link on this thread but I sent you a PM link to their website. Long time back a friend who taught me how to build arrows showed me how not buying from an archery shop for feathers, glue(hot glue and nock glue), dye, finish, and crest paint really ads up. He was the one who originally pointed me to costume places for getting feathers from if you are willing to split, sand, and chop your own.

[hayslope]

WAY too much!  You should see the look on my face when I actually lose one.

And that's without broadheads!!!!

[Bjorn]

Not cheap but a good investment. I don't mind losing them on a hunt-that's the least of my worries. Always fun to make more anyway.

[brill16hockey]

Someone once told me to treat arrows like golf balls.  Greatest advice ever.

[WESTBROOK]

Dont know exactly, dont realy care either. Nothin fancy though, good wood shaft, 3 feathers and an under-rated $5.00 broadhead. As they say  "its just cost of doing business.."

Eric

[BobW]

seeing that it empties my bank account to get 35" shafts, I HATE ALL OF YOU!!!!!!

 

[18thcentman]

Good thing I am single! I broke about 2 dozen arrows since March.I love to make arrows.

[Pete McMiller]

I don't get it. They aren't like bullets where you shoot it and it's gone forever.  An arrow can last easily thousands of shots.  So figure a $10 arrow over a thousand shots is a penny a shot.  Can't beat that.  Maybe wood won't and aluminum can bend but I'm shooting the same couple dozen carbons that I bought when they were the "new kid on the block".  Beman 70/90's and 80/100's.  I have no idea what I paid back then but they sure don't owe me anything anymore.

[jsweka]

I never thought about it before, so I did some calculatin' based on 3Rivers prices and buying nocks and fletching in lots of 100.

douglas fir shaft = $3.00
nock = $0.11
fletching = $1.26
Magnus broadhead = $4.38
stain,finish, cresting(???) = $0.20

Total = $8.95

Without broadhead = $4.57 ($54.89 per dozen)

This was a good exercise because I can now understand why a dozen completed wood arrows without heads can cost arround $100.  My cost per dozen doesn't include time and equipment to build arrows.

Oh well,all hobies cost money and it's better than blowing it in a bar or casino.  I likes Pete's take on it in terms of cost per shot.  Still a pretty cheap hobby.

[Mike Vines]

I never really thought about it.  Now that you got me thinking, I don't wanna think about it.  Now what do you think about that?  LOL

I'v ehad the same set for a fewyears now.  If they can last that long, I got my money's worth.  Same goes for target arrows.

[tradhunter1]

mine come out to about 5.50 an arrow with field tip. but i have cut my old shot out targets to get my lost tips and when i break an arrow i reuse the tips. i am also shooting cedar shafts that i bought 10 years ago in a batch of 76.

i was just looking to see what materials cost now and figurred that the same set up at todays cost would be about 7.50 - 8.50. so it will be about 2.00 to 3.00 dollors per arrow more.

as far as time put in i consider it good relaxing work so i feel it comes out even.

[Fletcher]

Arrows are more important to shooting well than the bow is.  If I don't think about the time and tools, I can make a pretty good field point arrow for about $4-5 at normal costs.  Add to that the broadhead.

I've tried making arrows on the cheap, it ended up costing me.

[chopx2]

$10-$15 material cost, but probably $25 with time

[bigiron]

shaft, feathers, zwickey= 6.50. don't bother looking for it when i miss.

[Raminshooter]

.21 cents for my Ramin shafts, .54 cents for the feathers, .12 cents or so for a nock, .36 cents for a field point and $1.60 for the eskimo two blades I bought years ago for $10/6.

With Field points = $1.23

With Broadheads = $2.10

As a class of archers we shunned the "compound" bow only to become manipulated into our current addiction to the "compound arrow", namely the carbon arrow with all of its attendant parts/pieces. Easton and others started this craze because (1) they needed a new product that they could charge more money for and (2) its just easier to make essentially 1-3 sizes of something and then sell a bunch of "parts" to help tune those three sized to each archers bow.

I refuse to drop a string with $8-$15 at risk of going over a cliff....but that's just me.  Wooden arrows have been killing everything on all continents for a long time so I see no reason to change now.  Plus, I look forward to sending them off of that cliff now!

[huey]

I buy 3/8" birch dowels for .40, but would like to know where to buy ramin shafts for .21 and fir for 1.50. I have done the math before and they are cheap. I make broad heads out of old hay cycle teeth.

[Horne Shooter]

Funny you should ask this question...I was just thinking about it the other day because my broadhead choice is Abowyer and they are getting up there in price.
Add a CE 250 shaft with a brass insert and a steel broadhead adapter and you are talking about real money per shaft.  Now that I know how much it cost per arrow, I'm going to stop thinking about it!