Dogwood Primitive Arrows

[owlbait]

Over the weekend KHALVERSON and I worked on some primitive style arrows made from dogwood. Kevin also coach me through 3 trade points. We are getting ready for a Primitive Challenge Hunt with Chuck(TwoTracks) and George(Treedancer) this fall. Pics to follow.

[owlbait]

Raw materials

Gear

[owlbait]

[drewsbow]

very nice  

[stringstretcher]

Looking really good there.  Love those dogwoods.

[2treks]

Sweet looking arrows fellas.
I really like that primitive 76'r  :p  

I better get busy,

[magnus]

That's just too cool! On the same path. Thanks for sharing!!!

[wooddamon1]

Cool arrows!  

[owlbait]

I wish I took pics while we were building. We being mostly Kevin    He drilled out the nock end and made a hardwood nock that inserted into the arrow and was tuneable to the shaft! I hope Chuck gets busy with some blanks, I can't hardly pull that old hickory bow anymore!

[2treks]

I'm a comin'
I'm a comin'

[stringstretcher]

What is the poundage of the bow you are shooting them out of?

[KHALVERSON]

charles
the ol bear 76er is around 40#s @ 28
and the self bow has gotta be 70-80#s @ 28
i cannot even draw it close to 28 in

[stringstretcher]

Thanks.  I have a lot of red osier, but they will only spine out to about 35-40 lbs.  Just wondering on your spine.

[DGF]

How long did you have to let those shafts dry?

Dan

[Jon Stewart]

Nice looking set up.

[owlbait]

We need to set up a spine checker station. I'll let Kevin tell about the harvest and drying part of the arrows.

[KHALVERSON]

mike
i have the spine testing covered for now
just checked some of the shafting i have straight most is 400-500 spine with some @ 600+
i cut the shafts back in the begining of december and kept it bundled together in my heated garage till a couple weeks ago and the stripped the bark

[2treks]

I really wish I had gone and cut some when you did Kevin.
Right now I am eyeballing some kind a bush in my yard that has some pretty hard,heavy and straight branches. I trimmed a pile of em off last fall and might beable to pull a few out of my burn pile. I will have to see about it.
You boys done good,
Treedancer and his 6yr. old grandson, The Buck, Went to the camp today and "took a walk on the wild side"
I bet they had a blast. That boy will tucker 5 grown men when it comes to shooting his bow.


CTT

[Mike Vines]

Pretty good looking set up you have there.  Where is the hunt going to be at?

[BrownA5]