Decided to give building myself some arrows with Trade Points a try. Gave it a lot of thought before I built the first one Saturday. Used a tapered Sitka Spruce shaft so I'd have a better front of center as the trade points are only 120 grains. Cut a self nock into it that turned out really nice. I did change up on my wrapping material and went with nylon thread used on fishing rod eyes for both the fletching and point. I also used the flex epoxy usind on fishing rods to cover most of the wraps for protection. The finished arrow weighs in at 566 grains.
![](http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/bounty764hunter/IMG_0686-1.jpg)
Here is what the fletching looks like with the new wrap materials.
![](http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/bounty764hunter/IMG_0688-1.jpg)
Here is the business end....
![](http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/bounty764hunter/IMG_0687-1.jpg)
Let everything dry over night and before it got hot I took it out for some test shots Sunday morning. It flys out of my longbow absolutely perfect!!! I was a little suprised that the flight was so good and expected I'd have to do some tweaking, but got lucky I guess.
Here is one of the 10 yard test shots. (Yes my old target is due for retirement.....lol)
![](http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/bounty764hunter/IMG_0690-1.jpg)
Here is one of the 15 yard test shots. Had a hard time pulling this one as it found a hole in the deer and was deep in the hay.
![](http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/bounty764hunter/IMG_0691-1.jpg)
All in all I'm very pleased with this one and have started building a set of these. Might even have to give them a try on deer this year...
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![](http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/bounty764hunter/IMG_0686-1.jpg)
Here is what the fletching looks like with the new wrap materials.
![](http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/bounty764hunter/IMG_0688-1.jpg)
Here is the business end....
![](http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/bounty764hunter/IMG_0687-1.jpg)
Let everything dry over night and before it got hot I took it out for some test shots Sunday morning. It flys out of my longbow absolutely perfect!!! I was a little suprised that the flight was so good and expected I'd have to do some tweaking, but got lucky I guess.
Here is one of the 10 yard test shots. (Yes my old target is due for retirement.....lol)
![](http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/bounty764hunter/IMG_0690-1.jpg)
Here is one of the 15 yard test shots. Had a hard time pulling this one as it found a hole in the deer and was deep in the hay.
![](http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/bounty764hunter/IMG_0691-1.jpg)
All in all I'm very pleased with this one and have started building a set of these. Might even have to give them a try on deer this year...
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