How many arrows do you have??

[Dan Worden]

I have a couple........of racks like this.   :p   actually 3  :rolleyes:   One is raw shafts.

 

[Walt Francis]

RedTX: "Why on earth do you fellas need that many???"

Many of us shoot numerous styles and differing poundage bows.  I personally shoot, wood, aluminum, and carbons, from selfbows, longbows, and recurves that vary in weight from 43# to 75#'s.  When I started making selfbows I had a set of test arrows made at my draw length that spined from 45# to 75#'s.  This allows me to grab an arrow and test how they fly from the new bow, then order a new set for the bow.  I like to keep a specific set of arrows for each bow so that usually accounts for fifteen to twenty dozen.  I won't get into the varying types of wood available.  Also, when I break or lose four or five arrows from a matched dozen, another dozen are ordered to replace them.  After building over fifty selfbows the number of arrows tends to build up.  In addition, I have several hundred aluminum arrows from my compound days that haven't been out of their boxes in almost twenty years (note: I really should get rid of these, but not to many people shoot 26" arrows any more).  Then you have test shoot all the new carbons that come out every year, just because they are new.  And the old ones can't be replaced because they don't make them, or their parts anymore, resulting in additional arrows.  I guess the prudent person would sell many of them and buy a couple of good bows with the money, but then he would need more arrows for the new bows wouldn't they?  Besides, I think they look really neat stuffed around the archery room.
         
Now let's not get into the effect broadheads have on all these arrows.  When you start combining the three variations above (Type, spine weight, bow weight) with the types/styles and weights of broadheads and the numerous combinations, it can get confusing. I think there is a need for me to get a few dozen more arrows.

Oh ya, back to the original question, I have in excess of five hundred arrows, and that is a conservative estimate.  My wife gave up asking how many arrows, broadheads, and bows I need several years back.  Now she avoids the archery room and just shakes her head and smiles when she does go into it.

[Walt Francis]

Dan, yours are way to organized.  Half the fun is sorting throught hundreds of arrows to find the correct one when testing new bows.

[Talondale]

About 18.  6 practice 6 hunting and 6 from my compound days.  I usually order another dozen when I shoot all my hunting arrows or break all my practice ones.

[Dan Worden]

Originally posted by Walt Francis:
Dan, yours are way to organized.  Half the fun is sorting throught hundreds of arrows to find the correct one when testing new bows.

That's what drove the design of the racks.    

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[mcgroundstalker]

There Ya Have It!!!...And I thought I was the only arrow-holic around!!!... :eek: ...This guy has "only" one hundred arrows in carbon and aluminum... :p ...

Thanks For Asking!!!... ...

... mike ...

[Jack Guard]

Hey Dan, tha is a great arrow rack design.  cant quite make out what the tubes are made from, Cardboard ???   PVC ???    How do you keep the tubes from faling out of the wooden frame ?

I absolutley love that design.

[hormoan]

I'm skert just thinking about trying to count them.      :eek:  Somes good, mores better , to many's just enough!  


                 Brent

[Gordy]

How many ?  Yikes.....I ain't gonna count in case my wife reads this.      

I once told her about my fishing pole count and I still get grief for that.  Every bow she sees in my hand; "Is that a new bow?"     :confused:

Actually she's great about my archery hobby..... I'm the one who's most worried.    

[Red Beastmaster]

My arrow total goes up and down throughout the year. At it's peak I probably have 300 on hand. At the lowest it's more like 200.

I'm actually counting how many arrows I break or lose in 2007. I always guessed around 100/yr. So far I'm down 76 arrows and it's only May 1st! My work has been slow since Feb so I've had lots of time to shoot stumps. Nothing smells better than broken cedar on your day off!  

[Dan Worden]

That one is cardboard tubes, the other ones are thinwall drain pvc. There is really nothing holding them other than the front and rear frames. I think I hot glued the first version. Kind of a tack weld.

Here's a pvc one.

[Shawn Leonard]

I like the cardboard rug tubes. Ya can put a plastic endcap on them for 30 cents. I have 6 tubes pretty much full. I would say 12-15 dozen. I should say though i shoot only about 3 dozen of the spine I need right now. Shawn

[Jim now in Kentucky]

8 shootable arrows  at present. Try to keep  around a dozen. I repair  any that break  near  the point, so don't  need hundreds  on hand.  Just keep using the same  ones over  and  over.

I have  about the same number for  my son,  half  dozen for  my wife,  who never  shoots but  wants  to know she has  them, half dozen for  one daughter, and  lots of arrows that  have  been "outgrown"  by the kids.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

How many arrows???? You tell me....This is just in the archery shop.....i am going into Woody production in the wood shop right now.....Haven't ever bothered to count arrows......
I'm with Walt here....got to have some fun rooting through them....

[Woodduck]

little over 7 doz...I think it's a lucky number  

[Falk]

There was a quite similar thread some time ago - counting arrows - and how to store them - wanna see?
 Here you go

[MI_Bowhunter]

I don't know how many I have, but I know its not enough.    

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Arrows, Arrows everywhere!!!
Someone give me a bow so's I can fling one into the air.

The feathers, the cresting, and the fine craftsmanship,
The care that goes into them from nock to tip!

Too many or too few we never get it right,
That's why we keep makin' them through the day and into the night.

Some say it is a passion, some, like our wifes, say it is an obsession.
All I know is I will keep making them 'cause it's too much darned FUN!

So, here's to the brotherhood of archers who make a stick into an arrow.
It's part of us right down to the depth of our very marrow.

   Got carried away...I have 4 dozen and more shafts on order!