Good Spirit arrows.

Some of you heard about how I used an arrow built by Bill Rideout to kill the pig at Shiloh. Bill helped me get into traditional archery. When I met him he was suffering from leukemia. He passed 10 years ago this past May. He and I joined the old club in Austin close to 15 years ago.  Some of you may remember him.

With a Newfoundland moose hunt coming up in September I decided to use Bill's arrows again. This time I picked a set of maple shafts he had finished, but never fletched. I shortened the shafts (Bill was 6'10" and drew close to 30") and sanded them. Stained them all white and fletched them with 4 4" white feathers ("white as a ghost"). I chose Bill's Zwickey heads to go on the shafts. The weight of the finished arrow was around 600gr. Good medicine for moose I thought. The bow I picked was an old Elburg Jaguar Magnum (in my opinion, the best bow ever built) 64" 64#@28" (about 55# at my draw). Back up bow was another Elburg Jaguar Magnum 64" 53#@25", T/D model.