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THE ART OF ARROWS

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Many battles were won due to the arrow, and the very existence of villages and tribes heavily depended on what is still known today as an arrow.

The arrow today is different to the arrows of the past. At the risk of starting to sound like an old timer, arrows nowadays look very different even to when I first started using them.

SHAFTS

My arrow setup in the beginning was Of course, being aluminium, they would bend and dent easily, and they could snap easily too. But that was nothing compared to the issues of wooden shafts that some even older timers would tell me about. Looking at arrows now and seeing what they have become is incredible. The basic design is still the same, but the materials are not.

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