Anyone else practice with bare shafts?
#1
Anyone else practice with bare shafts?
I was just wondering if anyone else practices with bare sharfts. I keep a couple in my quiver and shoot them regularly when practicing. Any minor inconsistancy in form as well as proper bow tune will usually appear when shooting them (as compared with fletched arrows). Of course field points only.
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Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Mississippi USA
Posts: 15,296
RE: Anyone else practice with bare shafts?
I only do that when I'm matching arrows to a bow--if I can get them to fly straight out to 20 yds or so, they get fletched. Shoot, I break enough arrows with fletchings on them![8D]
Chad
Chad
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,175
RE: Anyone else practice with bare shafts?
I'm too cheap to keep any bareshaft arrows around. If I've got a good shaft, it's gonna be fletched. But sometimes an arrow I lost months earlier, with the feathers rotted off, will show up in the lost arrow bucket at the range and I'll mess around with it some.
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Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hopkinsville, Ky USA
Posts: 811
RE: Anyone else practice with bare shafts?
I have ahandful ofbare shafts (tapered cedar of various spines) around here somewhere that I used for testingwhen I gota new bow. They used to see quite a bit of use, prolly too much, but I haven't shot em in quite awhile.