I bought some archery stuff today and I got this box of six wood arrows. They have never been shot. Full paint with Bear broadheads 32". The guy I bought the stuff from said he bought em late sixtys early seventys but forgets what spine they are. Any way to check em at home without a spine tester? The box they came in has a label Kinseys Arrow Shop Mount Joy Pa. Probably long gone.

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Kinsey's was a very well known mail order house for a number of years. We bough goods from them quite often.

You can get CLOSE to finding the spine by placing 2 nails 26" apart, lay the arrow on them, and hang a weight in the middle. Mark how much it deflects, or bends. Then, take some arrows of known spine, and do the same thing. Find the one that deflects the same amount, and there you go.

Thanks Frank, I like that, sounds like a plan.

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Kinseys’s is still in business. They have their wholesale business that Vernon Kinsey started decades ago and they have a retail store Kinseys’s Outdoors. Still in My Joy,Pa.

Can you post a close up pic of that cresting? Those look very similar to a set of arrows that I purchased that also had Razorheads installed on them. Mine are gold with a blue/black cresting with a zig zag pattern to it.

Occassionally you will find some fiberglass arrows sold by Kinsey's. They are identified by a small kabel "K6", "K9", etc. The number designates a spine range. My first bow was a 43# Kodiak Hunter that came with K6 arrows.

Sure, sounds like the same arrow Aaron.

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Thanks, those are the same arrows for sure! The cresting is a little different than I pictured in my head, but now that I see it I know mine are just like that. If I remember right, mine have black and yellow fletching.

I drive past Kinseys when I visit my brother south of Lancaster, Pa. The store is off Rt. 283 next to the Mt. Joy exit, its on the westbound side of the interstaste.

Yep, it's still there. I've bought from Kinseys since the 1960's. The faces change but luckily they are still in place, although not to the same extent they once were. I remember Vernon well and he was there most of the time until he just couldn't do it anymore.

That's the "exact" arrow that I shot my first deer with in 1968. All gold shaft, white and yellow fletch, red nock and the identical crest. With a Bear Razorhead as well. I still have the back half of the arrow, but it's hanging in my garage up north. My dad bought a dozen for me from a long gone shop on Fondulac Ave and Burleigh st. in Milwaukee in 1967. Unreal !

Yeah, the guy who sold them to me told me he bought them way back then and never used them. Said he found all this stuff on a shelf in a storage closet that wasn't opened in years. I wish he had found the inserts LOL.

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Kinsey's started making arrows out of his garage It's a very nice outdoor. Sports. Shop now

you could always just shoot them out of your bow and see if they are weak or stiff.

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