Steve, a regular at our bow club, was shooting his fancy bow last Sat. He shoots pretty expensive carbon arrows. My friend Andrew and I were extolling the virtues of river cane or bamboo arrows. Steve overheard us and was interested in hearing more. Andrew reached into his quiver and just gave Steve 6 Chinese bamboo arrows that Andrew had assembled not that long ago. Steve went and shot them at 20 yards. WELL, Surprise, Surprise!

What are they spined at?

Just goes to show ya!!!

There are a few that can do that. You know pick up any bow and out shoot the owner. This guy can do arrows.

Nice!!

The Chinese ( or somebody) can build some arrows. Dar bees some SERIOUS interest in archery for some of the peoples in the ASIA region! BLESSED BE!

What fancy brand bow was he shooting ?

"Well made" Bamboo (natures carbon) arrows don't give up much of anything to other arrow shaft materials.

In this picture, the 3 white nock arrows are 7595 Goldtip Trad XT's, and the 3 green nocks are Bamboo shafts.

Shot distance was 30 yards. I was impressed with the bamboos.

Rick

Forgot the picture.

Rick

I guess it ain't the arrow, it's the Indian after all.

I don't know if anybody's ever ordered from Frank's cane and rush but he's a local guy to me, top notch service going into an American's pocket.

You can find the arrow shaft section in his website:

https://www.franksupply.com/

It makes perfect sense that bamboo with the proper selection and quality controls would make good arrow material. Anyone that has ever fished with a quality flyrod would acknowledge the life in good bamboo with no hesitation.

Years back I examined a set of cane arrows that were made just like a flyrod. Sawn and glued and tapered from nock to point, works of art. They had absolutely perfect flight for him.

I'm not sure why you are surprised.

George, I’m not surprised, but I know Steve was. He’s serious about improving. He wants to compete. He practices constantly, and has only been shooting just over a year. He’s familiar with the mainstream stuff, ILF recurves, carbon arrows, that are pretty expensive. Seeing that inexpensive bamboo arrows are very shootable are the surprise for him.

Grabbing a handful of arrows and shooting a group like that kind of blows up a lot of theories that are posted on here about weight, spine, etc. Unless of course the friends arrows just happen to be a perfect match to his arrows.

Nemophilist this is Steve’s “fancy bow”, a Gillo.

Nice looking bow. I had to look Gillo up on the internet. I'm not up on all the target and olympic style bows.

That's kinda like when someone with and old Savage 20ga. o/u shotgun comes to the club and shoots as well as the guy with a 5000.00 Beretta. I have to say though, those of you who make good cane/bamboo arrows are true craftsmen.

None of this stuff is rocket science or surprising to some folks. It isn't shocking, or difficult, that the simplest stuff, often homemade, can work just as well, it just takes a little doing... tryin instead of buyin.

NY Yankee, I used to shoot skeet once in a while for something different, and those snobby skeet shooting Beretta owners in all their fancy garb and splendor were often there. I was breaking bird for bird with my rode-hard $100 Mossberg with a crappy camo job I did in dad's garage when I was a teenager. And let's just say I didn't exactly look the part like they did. Haha! That gun really did look horrendous but i used it so much and for so long I didn't exactly suck with it :^) Them fellas were beside themselves and literally turned their noses up and wouldn't even acknowledge me. Pure entertainment.

dean:

In the 1930's the South Bend fishing rod company made laminated bamboo arrow shafts that were tapered as you described. That is where the idea for the split-pine hex shaft came from.

Bob

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