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Main Boards => Trad History/Collecting => Topic started by: Pack animal on March 01, 2012, 05:17:00 PM
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Bought a bunch of arrows and found a "WOW"...surprise...
(http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4073.jpg)
They were all very well wrapped and packed in brown paper...except the small bundle with the blue paper. (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4074.jpg)
intially I thought maybe the sender sent me an invoice..but the rubberband was so old it broke when I tried to remove it. (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4075.jpg)
Then I thought probably just wrapped seperate...but you know sometimes womething catches your attention...so I opened it..."Oh WOW" (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4087.jpg) (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4082.jpg)
So I believe these have been wrapped up and it a closet since the time they were brought home... (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4076.jpg) (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4080.jpg) (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4078.jpg)
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Now you need a picture of the broadheads and maybe one of the arrows waaaaayyyy in the back.
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Real nice find! How about a close up of the broadheads as there appear to be some '57 style Bear Razorheads in there... (Judging by my phones poor picture quality at least)
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More details, please.
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Ron;
Would that be these? (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4096.jpg) (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4095.jpg)
They appear to be woven, are dipped full length bear brown, have wooden plugs in the tip ends, and mid-nocks? I don't know what they are????
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Hobow, Here are shots of the 57 and 60 broadheads
(http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4100.jpg) (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4106.jpg) (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4107.jpg) (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4110.jpg) (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4103.jpg) (http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac60/Pack-animal/New%20arrows/IMAG4101.jpg)
These are a curiousity to me??? The cresting is all the same,except 2, but different colors on each arrow. The arrows are 4 different lengths,2 @ 28 1/4 one with 57 broadhead and one 60 broadhead, 5@ 28 5/8 4 with 57 broadhead and one with 60 broadhead, 3@ 28 3/4 2 with 57 broadhead and one 60 broadhead. & 2@ 29 1/2 one 57 broadhead and one 60 broadhead. nine of the broadheads,(5 57s and all 4 60), have bleeders,( all with holes), Of the bleeders 4 are light metal color and the other 5 are blued metal color. all the broadheads appear factory sharpened but none appear to have been shot???
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The fiberglass shafts are probably Fleetwood. They were made a a sheet of glass wrapped around a mandrel. Sometimes a faint line or edge can be see running on an angle from both ends to the end point in the middle.
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Yeah, Bear sold those shafts but I don't know who made them. Ron is likely right about Fleetwood. I think they preceded the aluminum insert shafts. I had a couple dozen of these arrows. I've got a couple left, and ground a hole in the side of one to see what was done. They just used a wooden dowel as a plug and ground it off. I had some old glass shafts without the proper insert and found a dowel that was close and tried it. The thing about it is the dowel actually doesn't have to fit perfectly. I used a Woodchuck, but any grinder that locates off the shaft OD will grind the taper to be pretty well aligned. Was so impressed that I later tried it on an aluminum shaft just to see if it worked....it did.
Quite a find though, I think. Congratulations.
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Thanks for the pics, that is a great find! The broadheads look to be in excellent condition along with the bleeders. I love old arrows, they are often times a mash up of colors that one would not normally choose...
Congrats!