ARCH - UHMW blunt construction tips

[Eadric Anstapa]

Here is pretty good URL on constructing UHMW blunts.

http://www.dellarco.com/ontarget/bodies/uhmw.html

Now he advocates using electrical tape on the shaft and YOU should be using 
fibreglass strapping tape.

Regards,


-- 
Lord Eadric Anstapa
Coastal Regional Archery Marshal, Ansteorra
eadric at scabrewer.com


"Dewart, Charles R. --G3 Contractor (Anteon Corp)" 
<Charles.Dewart at hood.army.mil> said:

> I wish I had one to send you.  Perhaps someone else out there does.
> Basically, what I was going to do was cut the stick into 1 inch section.
> Drill a hole the size of the shaft 1/2 inch deep.  Round / bevel the other
> side.  Then put what I call a battle smurf on it.  A battle smurf is two 1
> 1/4 dia. dics of closed foam with a 1 1/4 inch dia. leather disc on the
> front (I won't put the rear one on there now because of the UHMW).  The
> combat head is tape so that the tape forms a cone behind the head.  Besure
> that the distance from where the string rests to the back of the taped cone
> is not more than 28 inches.
> 
> Gilli

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