Frozen maples and stumping

[maineac]

Went out last week to do some stumping.  Just switched back to my 57# Horne longbow.  On my third shot I deciede to stretch it a bit and shot over my intended leaf and hit the base of a maple tree.  The nock shot back about twenty yards.  Upon arriving I found this.

 

The insert had come out about 3/16",and the nock end had split, as well as the damage to the "hammer", but teh arrow had not split at the footing.  I have already glued up some new arrows with a small piece of aluminium at the nock end.  Going to have to order some more heads to make up a couple to get through the winter and spring stumping seasons.

[Kevin L.]

I miss it up there in the summer, but happy to be in Virginia the rest of the year. Never saw one of those heads blow like that, but I did split a couple of Judos stumping and hunting hares in the winter.

[ron w]

I guess there's a reason they call it hard rock maple.....lol!     Man that is something!

[RobinHood1389]

Maineac, I like the footing you did to your arrows. Can you explain the material and what you did please? I see it is an aluminum shaft, but size, length you cut it to, glued on? Thank you

[tuscarawasbowman]

I have split 2 ace hex heads just like that.

[maineac]

Kyle,  it is a 2016 xx75 shaft that I used for the footing, and now heading ?.  They fit the carbon express heritage 150's perfectly.  I have to use other aluminium shaft diameters for different arrows.  I just lightly sand the outside of the shaft to match the length of the footing. I put the footing on the shaft, put a small amount of JB Weld an inch or so above end of the shaft.  I slide the footing down spinning it and moving it up and down a few times to distribute the epoxy.  I usually put the insert in at this time also.  I clean up any excess epoxy with denatured alcohol. I think there might be a pictorial in the how to resources.  I just eye the length, usually about an inch to inch and quarter.  the nock ends i cut at about 3/8".

[RobinHood1389]

Cool. thanks for the quick response. I thought you has cedars though lol. I think I would like took try that on a cedar possibly. Thanks again.

[maineac]

Make that 2216's I use 2114's on my ICS Bowhunter 500's, sorry.  For woodies if you know the diameter of the shaft, I can check what the inside diameter of the shafts I have are.  You might get a starting point.

[Hopewell Tom]

There can't be too many arrows that would survive a "head-on" collision with a frozen Rock/Sugar Maple. That is some HARD wood.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Looks like you will have to foot the "Hammer" heads too.

[DamselflyFarm]

Wow. That's some good force to split that head like that. Those maples make better sap trees than targets.