ARCH - UHMW blunt construction tips
Eadric Anstapa
eadric at scabrewer.com
Fri Apr 20 14:34:44 PDT 2001
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
============================================================================
Go to http://lists.ansteorra.org/lists.html to perform mailing list tasks.
More information about the Ansteorra-archery
mailing list