The "woodchucker's" goin' ALUMINIUM!!!!!
Several years ago, My good Friend and neighbor Lou Wendover, passed away. His wife Jean gave me all of his guns and bowhunting equipment. Amongst the gear were about 2 dozen "Autumn Orange" 2016s with thier crumbling plastic vanes, and about 3 dozen old green Bear Razorheads.
I stripped the shafts,and took them over to my good Friend and fellow Tradganger, Joe Skipp. Joe crownd dipped them in chartruse,crested,and refletched them with chartruse and blaze orange feathers. I set them all aside as strictly "hunting" arrows...
That fall, I killed a fat spikehorn with one of those arrows tipped with an old green Razorhead. After the season,I put them away, and have only used them once or twice since.
Today I was out shooting in the backyard. All of my arrows were right in the "kill-zone" of my deer target,but the "consistancy" just wasn't there... I remembered Joe saying, (who actualy is a MUCH better shot than I will ever be!!!) "I like shooting aluminium, they're so much more consistant" and I thought about Lou's old arrows... I went down in the basement and grabbed one of the arrows out of the bucket. (I had a couple fletched with orange,because Joe ran short) I started shooting again,and was suprized to see the arrow hit closer,and closer to the X-ring every time!!!!!
I went inside when I was done shooting,and took 4 arrows tipped with Razorheads,screwed a Judo point on a 5th one, and put them in the Selway quiver on my old 1967 Grizzly...
I sat and looked at my set-up for awhile...
You can just smell the MOJO!!!!! :bigsmyl:
Good luck this fall! I'm kind of going in reverse of that. I was shooting carbons, but one day I picked a couple of POC arrows out of the bucket and shot them with my Kanati. They both tried to get into the same hole in the center of the target! I shot them a few more times with similar results, so I made up some new cedar arrows with Zwickey Deltas up front and that is what will go to the woods with me this fall. Plenty of mojo in those cedars too.
Hope we can both make some meat!
I think your friend would have been pleased, putting the things he left you to good use. Let us know if you harvest anything with the arrows.
Good On You Chuck! I'm a 2016 man myself... Well, this season anyway...
... mike ...
Thank You, Mike!!!!!
Good Luck to you this season!!!!!
(if I don't see ya before...)
I love 2016's !
I go all aluminumn myself but got to be Autumn Orange between the 2016 and 1918 love them both. The 1918 worked on Tuesday. :archer2:
Good luck chuck :wavey:
Traitor-Wood rules...LOL I hope you get a nice fat buck with those arrows. And you will have your neighbor watching out for your shot placement.