Let's see some primitives, wood, stone and bone. Who's got some.
No stone or bone points?
Here are a few I made to hunt with this year. The two on the left are walnut shafts sent to me by Ken75. The fluflu has a self blunt. The two on the right are sourwood shafts. All fletching are tied on with sinew, fore and aft. The arrow on the right has 3 small goose feathers tied in a tangential 3fletch. The heads(2Abowyers and one homemade)are hafted with pitch glue and sinew wrap. Self nocks are sinew wraped and all wraps are sealed with pitch varnish. I used Tru-Oil to seal the walnut shafts and pitch varnish on the sourwood shafts.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/primitive%20archer/BWandsourwoodarrowsfor2011elkhunt001.jpg)
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here's some i made up for testing on dead water buff. shafts are douglas fir. points were knapped by woody blackwell. they are hafted with sinew and pine pitch.
(http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd349/ozyclint/IMG_1001.jpg)
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the feathers are bound with sinew and self nocks.
(http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd349/ozyclint/IMG_1008.jpg)
the white one in the middle i knapped myself. the one in the bottom left is one of woody's points shown before, after i reknapped it as it got broken on a buff rib. the rest were knapped by bill skinner. the brown pine tree killed me a pig on cape york this time last year. it was recovered intact.
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Nice arrows ozy clint!
Here is a few that I made from sour wood and a couple of my sinew and rawhide backed bows.
(http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac73/mikeyancey/TXhuntgear002-1.jpg)
Mike
www.pinehollowlongbows.com (http://www.pinehollowlongbows.com)
Nice arrows everyone!
How do you like those sourwood arrows Mike? Gotta be my all around hardwood shoot material...Art
I made this a few days ago. My first and only primative arrow so far. I used wild turkey wing feathers, river cane harvested locally, self nock and a zwickey.
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(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc157/pactac/th_100_2126.jpg) (http://s214.photobucket.com/albums/cc157/pactac/?action=view¤t=100_2126.mp4)
Any one have any snaked arrows or info on how to do them.