The Motor City might be taking a beating, BUT, the Motor City Machetes will not be defeated.
I just finished brewing up a couple arrows to take down to Hog Heaven for the St. Jude hunt next week, and I believe these will be great "Medicine" for them. It's been fun learning and building these, and I've even done a few threads along the way, but here is the finished product. A little hurried, but still an awesome shootable arrow.
Shafting is douglas fir, 4 point footed with bacote, tipped with an Ace Standard 125, and fletched with a quick membrane splice. Not the best fletch job, but it steers a sledge hammer of an arrow right into the target.
I think I have a winner. What say you?
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QuoteOriginally posted by Mike Vines:
I think I have a winner. What say you?
PIG-FLESH AWAITS!!!
Shoot straight, Shinken
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Nice work brother!
Very nice.
Good work! Good luck! :thumbsup:
Very nice!!
They turned out awesome!
Now bury em' fletch deep in hog lung!
I love that footing!
Very nice!
very nice :thumbsup:
Good luck. Nice arrows.
Very nice. Good luck at Hog Heaven.
Here piggie piggie! Have fun Mike. Arrows look great, now , will you be able to shoot straight when those murderous tusks are snapping just inches away from you? :eek: :scared:
They look good already, but go get some blood on them and they will look perfect. :thumbsup:
Nice arrows Mike! Now, go nail a hawg with 'em! :)
Thank you everyone. I do appreciate all the nice comments. I will do my best to "Christen" this arrow, but honestly, as long as I see a wild hog, my hunt is complete. If I end up killing one, I will be on cloud 9.
Where I'm from, there are supposedly hogs in Michigan, but everybody knows someone who saw one. Nobody can say they have seen one, or even produce a trail cam pic of one. So until we are inundated with them, I will cherish my time in the South with some good guys sharing great times.
Nice arrows
AWESOME arrows :thumbsup: Good luck and straight shooting :archer2:
Nice work! Good luck on those hogs!
Very cool, that outa' do!
Great job on the footing, really like the Bocote...!!
Sweeeeet!
Mike
Those look nice. Can't wait to see them in person.
Benny
Man those will go great with hog flesh. Great job.
Mike are you shooting those out of your Ambush? If so what are they spined at? I'm llooking to make up some Woodies for my Ambush.
I've never even held a footed shaft(I saw a dozen once). Remarkable craftsmanship!
arrows look real nice. :thumbsup:
QuoteOriginally posted by Rick Butler:
Mike are you shooting those out of your Ambush? If so what are they spined at? I'm llooking to make up some Woodies for my Ambush.
I shoot 60-65# shafts. I draw 50# with my (H)ambush.
Great job, good luck.
Very, very nicely done! Put the to good use.. ~Steve
Thanks, those are great looking arrows and you're gonna love Ray's!
Hello Mike, beautiful arrows ,have a question is the bacote an oily wood and do you have to have a special finish to seal it ? thanks gib
I used regular titebond 3 glue so I do not believe it is oily. It is nowhere like teak, as in I did not have to wipe it down with Acetone. I just cut it, glued it and clamped it. I used waterbased wood floor finish over it, and it dried at the same rate as it dried on the douglas fir shaft. Others might have a better educated answer, I tend to give a "Non-Scientific Hillbilly Gear Test Rating" when I do things. In other words, I do something and see if it works. If it does I go with it. If it does not, I try something different.
Oink......Oink.....Squeeeeeeeeal!!!
Almost too nice for a pig!!! Great job.
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