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Main Boards => Trad History/Collecting => Topic started by: Bowhunter4life on November 27, 2012, 10:19:00 PM
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One of the other Doctors at work found some old arrows while cleaning out his attic this weekend. He is an older gentleman and him an I have talked quite a bit about hunting and archery since I started working at this practice. Anyway, he walked in this morning and asked if I could use these arrows (he doesn't hunt with a bow any longer...). I looked at them, and they are very short, to short for me for sure. 25.5" from "V" in nock to back of point. From my research today the Micro Flite 2 is a pretty low spined arrow. Looking at the Broadheads they are Bod-Kin 3-blades, and the stamp looks just like that with the dash. Overall, they look almost brand new. He couldn't remember getting them, but obviously at some point he did...
My thinking is these were for someone who is shooting relatively light poundage and short draw... May be a man, but I'm leaning towards a woman or child. Also, would they still be usable? I've flexed them and seem to be intact and undamaged. Also any guess to how old these are?
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They're likely from the 60's. 2's are very low spine - 30-35# @25". I shoot MicroFlite 7's and 8's out of bows between 45 and 50#. The 8's are 29" long and the 7's slightly less. MicroFlites are pretty forgiving shafts and seem to work over a broad range of spines.
They are relatively heavy shafts. A finished 7 with a Bear Razorhead weighs about 530 grains. Even so, I really like them.
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Neat! Those shafts have the same broadhead adapter as those used for the skinny Sweetlands of the same era. The shafts must be 9/32 diam same as Bill's skinny shafts.
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I asked the question before with no answer but the adaptors look like an aluminum head shrinker. Dad left me about 50 of them.
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The Micro-Flite first appeared in 1960. The Bod-Kin heads are from the late 1950's The stamp may actually say:
Bod-Kin-B
The are Headshrinker adapters, I have a few of them laying around here.
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The Bodkin heads were made by Whiffen Archery in Milwaukee. Very tough head, but difficult to get sharp. I still use them for small game.
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Thank you all for your insight... All I really knew was they were old...
Will try to get some field points on them and let my daughters shoot them.
Thanks again!