From: Big Nine
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Date: 12-Aug-19 |
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Anybody try the Hickory Shafts from Pine Hollow ? Looking to try the 5/16 ,60-65 spine. Do they come fairly straight?
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From: JusPassin
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Date: 12-Aug-19 |
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They haven't arrived yet but I'll know soon.
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From: Sawtooth (Original)
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Date: 12-Aug-19 |
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Interested in hearing all about this. I’d like to try some good hickory. “Nothing like a good piece of hickory”. Pale rider.
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From: Bugle-up
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Date: 12-Aug-19 |
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I’ll be interested in hearing too.
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From: jk
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Date: 12-Aug-19 |
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Got em elsewhere. Tougher than maple, must ha hand straighten often, HEAVY.
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From: BowAholic
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Date: 12-Aug-19 |
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Mike may still be in Africa, but they are all he shoots, including at our 3D shoot.
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From: MStyles
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Date: 12-Aug-19 |
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5/16 hickory is very tough.
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From: deerfly
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Date: 12-Aug-19 |
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I've about 4 hickory shafts left from a dozen I bought about 15 years ago. I use them as flu-flu's with blunts. I've lost them but never broken one, they are tough, lol.
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From: Dagwood
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Date: 12-Aug-19 |
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We have a wood shop and a dry kiln. Hickory is indeed a very strong wood but the sap or white part is much superior to the heart which is dark. And the hickory from the Ozarks, Mo and Ar, in my opinion is the best. Commercially, hickory and pecan are lumped together, but the pecan is not near as good as white hickory. Good white/sap hickory is stringy, won’t bust easily and very hard to machine.
We have made shafts/dowels and sword blanks for the renousance crowd to spar with. Even made dummy guns blanks for the military to train in hand combat.
I’ve thought about making some smaller shafts but let my dowel machine get away. I bet they would be great for flu flues and stump shooting.
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From: fdp
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Date: 12-Aug-19 |
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If Yancey sells them they are going to be as good as there is.
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From: Aeronut
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Date: 13-Aug-19 |
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I make them and have been shooting them for years. I've bounced them off of trees, rocks, and steel targets and never have broken one.
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From: skipmaster1
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Date: 13-Aug-19 |
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I just got some from Pine Hollow. None were even close to straight but I hear straightened them easily and they are tanks. Bare shafts were over 700 grains.
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From: Jeff Durnell
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Date: 13-Aug-19 |
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Make every correction with heat and they'll stay put a lot better. They'll also stay straight better if there is no growth ring or grain runout... AND if the hickory was properly cared for after the tree was cut. I have hickory shafts that I haven't had to straighten at all in over 10 years.
And yep, good quality hickory shafts are super tough. I've shot them directly into oak and hickory tree trunks while squirrel hunting with no damage.
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From: PEARL DRUMS
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Date: 13-Aug-19 |
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I've made flu flus and had good luck, they are tough. You will probably have to straighten them often to keep them just right, but that's quick and easy if you are well versed at it.
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From: JusPassin
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Date: 13-Aug-19 |
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How well do they compression straighten?
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From: PEARL DRUMS
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Date: 13-Aug-19 |
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Never have, but the characteristics of hickory tell me that compression may only make them angry.
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From: Big Nine
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Date: 13-Aug-19 |
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WOW ! Bare shaft over 700 grain ? finished arrow at 860-890 may be a lil heavy.
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