Went out last week to do some stumping. Just switched back to my 57# Horne longbow. On my third shot I deciede to stretch it a bit and shot over my intended leaf and hit the base of a maple tree. The nock shot back about twenty yards. Upon arriving I found this.
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The insert had come out about 3/16",and the nock end had split, as well as the damage to the "hammer", but teh arrow had not split at the footing. I have already glued up some new arrows with a small piece of aluminium at the nock end. Going to have to order some more heads to make up a couple to get through the winter and spring stumping seasons.
I miss it up there in the summer, but happy to be in Virginia the rest of the year. Never saw one of those heads blow like that, but I did split a couple of Judos stumping and hunting hares in the winter.
I guess there's a reason they call it hard rock maple.....lol! :biglaugh: Man that is something!
Maineac, I like the footing you did to your arrows. Can you explain the material and what you did please? I see it is an aluminum shaft, but size, length you cut it to, glued on? Thank you
I have split 2 ace hex heads just like that.
Kyle, it is a 2016 xx75 shaft that I used for the footing, and now heading ?. They fit the carbon express heritage 150's perfectly. I have to use other aluminium shaft diameters for different arrows. I just lightly sand the outside of the shaft to match the length of the footing. I put the footing on the shaft, put a small amount of JB Weld an inch or so above end of the shaft. I slide the footing down spinning it and moving it up and down a few times to distribute the epoxy. I usually put the insert in at this time also. I clean up any excess epoxy with denatured alcohol. I think there might be a pictorial in the how to resources. I just eye the length, usually about an inch to inch and quarter. the nock ends i cut at about 3/8".
Cool. thanks for the quick response. I thought you has cedars though lol. I think I would like took try that on a cedar possibly. Thanks again.
Make that 2216's I use 2114's on my ICS Bowhunter 500's, sorry. For woodies if you know the diameter of the shaft, I can check what the inside diameter of the shafts I have are. You might get a starting point.
There can't be too many arrows that would survive a "head-on" collision with a frozen Rock/Sugar Maple. That is some HARD wood.
Looks like you will have to foot the "Hammer" heads too.
Wow. That's some good force to split that head like that. Those maples make better sap trees than targets.