My Homemade Bamboo Bow And Arrow 2

Shooting at 2 pieces of 6x4 inch high density fiberboard in front of 3 layers of cardboard with my homemade bamboo bow and arrow from 15 meters.

While cutting down bamboo for my early crossbows, I decided to make a simple longbow by splitting some bamboo in half and taping it together with cellophane tape. I got most of the measurements form the Boyer's Bible. The bow is about 66 inches long and the string is made from nylon fishing line. The bow pulls about 30 pounds at full draw but despite its heavy draw weight has little penetrating power.

The arrows were much harder to make. I used a smaller and thinner type of bamboo for the arrow shafts which were painstakingly heat straightened and then debarked after a certain period of time as not to cause the arrow shaft to crack (some types of small diameter wood crack when debarked too early, as I learned the hard way). After the arrow shafts dried for a few months they were coated in lacquer and then fletched using shuttlecock feathers and superglue. The arrowheads I use are broadheads because their design is more durable.

While shooting the bow, I use an instinctive technique which I found to be more accurate and effective than the conventional technique, though now my shooting skills are on the fritz as I have not been shooting the bow for a few months now.

I don't really know what kind of species the bamboo is but i cut it from a grove growing at a nearby derelict house. The bamboo grows up to 2 storeys high and is about 1-2 inches in diameter. The base of the bamboo is usually solid then hollows out after the first meter which makes it ideal to split into laminates.I cut them to length and then split then into laminates about 0.5 cm thick.
Photos of arrows at the end.

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[brittanyshieldssmms]

how do you stick the feathers on the arrow pleas tell me.

[etang9]

@brittanyshieldssmms  i use superglue

[JyeMusicLover]

how did you get the arrows so straight?

[etang9]

@JyeMusicLover they were heat straightened

[argonsrc]

urmm...in my opinion,we also can use strings to stick the featheres on the arrow...-right-

[sebsvideos13]

The first bamboo bow I made sucked but then I made a plastic one and it was amazing

[TheJesse1354]

I got a professional plastic now and arrow set with gaurds and everything for christmas. I feel SPOILED

[brittanyshieldssmms]

dude. My bow is 3x stronger and more accuret then that thing. mine is made out of maple and it can shoot from 95 feet.

[JyeMusicLover]

I've tried that, but the arrows still don't come out straight enough. How do you do it?

[R0gueB0y123]

@furyberserk U MAD, BRO?!