LOL! So that' s what' s happening to all of the sody straws at McDonalds! You' re fletching them up!

I' m draw length challenged the other way. Not many outfits make arrow shafts long enough for me to make arrows out of ' em. Full length raw shaft (32.5" minimum, shorter don' t work), stick a nock on one end, insert in the other, a little fletching and that' s my arrow. Even my ' lite' carbons weigh over 450 grains.

With fish tank air tubing running from insert to nock, I bump that up to 587 grains. But I' ve found out that the tubing shrinks, either from summer heat or just from being pounded around, and it eventually starts sliding back and forth an inch or so. I took a 4" length of .090 weedeater line and stuck both ends into the tubing, leaving a loop sticking up and used it as a lock on the tubing. That seems to be working for now.

I tried shooting them unweighted, but my longbow rattles my bones and my recurve sounds like it' s being dry fired. I' m talking even at 8.5 grains per pound! I' ve got one heckuva long power stroke though.

Now if I could just figure out how to get the things to shoot broadheads where I look instead of making basketball size groups at 20 yards.