Talk:Arrow

message: "It predates history".  I have thought this was a stupid statement since before the beginning of time :-)   How can something predate history?  cbm 08:23, 2004 Feb 12 (UTC)
::History is said to be the time from the emergence of the first written language (which was egyptian in about 4000BC if memory serves) to modern day, everything before is known as pre-history which is what the sentence is refering to.
::There is some more precise (?) history in Bow (weapon).
Somebody else supply how-to for using a crossbow and maybe something on how arrows differ from darts.
(removed this from the article)
--cprompt 02:51, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: I had to correct "Spine", a common mistake: More spine = more flex = lighter arrow for less powerful bow. MRCorbett 23:04, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mea culpa. I picked up the term informally from the Bowyer's bibles. Turns out, they never really mention explicitly whether spine is more or less stiff. --Eyrian 23:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have just corrected the Archer's paradox article which had it precisely wrong. More spine means a stiffer arrow, according to the sources (including TBB which I have open in front of me). Richard Keatinge (talk) 10:02, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Spine

message: I've been trying to figure this out for some time, as most arrow heads have teath pulling it out could cause alot of damage, my father says you should push it through but this doesn't seem right either. Does anyone know how medics in the dark ages would remove arrows from injured soldiers?
It depends on the shape of the arrow head, where in the body, how deep etc. MRCorbett 23:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How to remove an arrow

message: While the traditional and romantic vision of an arrow is one with a stone or metal arrowhead, I'd say it was much more common for arrows to be blunted than stone-tipped in indigenous tribes in North America, with the tipped arrows being solely reserved for large game or for warfare. Naturally, most of the game shot with the bow would have been small-game, where a blunt head would have been more than efficient than having to make a sharp stone or bone tip. According to American Antiquity by Frank Hibben in 1938, in a cave in the Gila River area of New Mexico, a cache was found containing several thousand reed arrows. Less than a dozen of the arrows had stone points, and the rest were hardwood blunts, and the main way that the arrows were blunted was by roughly sharpening a point on the shaft and then fire-hardening it.
However, this only applies to North America. Europe could be largely different, I just wanted to point out that it was not common all-around for most arrows to have separate arrowheads attached.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3726:F9A0:B856:B434:EB2D:C99 (talk) 22:29, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Separate Arrowheads

message: The section on SCA Legal Arrowheads states "There is no arrow head that can safely be shot at un-armoured targets."  However, the following paragraph describes a type of arrowhead that can be safely fired at unarmoured targets.  I'm going to change this sentence to indicate that these arrowheads are not safe to fire at unarmoured targets.  I will also remove the space from "arrow head" and the hyphen from "unarmoured" 209.89.223.239 00:15, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: No Safe Arrowhead

message: From the article: "Medieval broadheads were made from steel"
Iron, surely? The production of steel didn't become reliable until well after the Middle Ages. There would have been some high-carbon iron available that would be classified as steel these days, but production of it was haphazard, and most steel was probably made by accident rather than design.
Have we got any references that say that Medieval arrowheads were routinely made of steel?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.169.63.132 (talk) 11:42, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Royal Armouries reference mentions steel broadheads, and I do recall some mediaeval comment about requiring "well-steeled" broadheads. Presumably not all of them, and I have changed to more cautious wording. Richard Keatinge (talk) 18:58, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Arrowhead Metallurgy

message: The usage of Arrows is under discussion, see Talk:Arrows, where the page is suggested to be renamed to Arrows (F1) so that it can be redirected to Arrow as the plural form. -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 13:34, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Related requested move

message: The article says "Whenever natural fletching is used, the feathers on any one arrow must come from the same side of the bird. The slight twist in natural feathers then makes the arrow rotate in flight, which increases accuracy."  Is this correct?  If the arrow has flight fins (feathers) it surely should not need to spin for accuracy?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.176.105.145 (talk) 12:19, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spin? 

message: Animal glue
Fish Skin glue
*fish skin
Pine Resin/Pitch glue
*resin
*charcoal
*rabbit dung
Birch tar was used widely as an adhesive as early as the late Paleolithic or early Mesolithic era. Ends of fletching of arrows were fastened with birch-tar.
*Tar kilns are Dry distillation ovens, historically used in Scandinavia for producing tar from wood. They were built close to the forest, from limestone or from more primitive holes in the ground. The bottom is sloped into an outlet hole to allow the tar to pour out. The wood is split into dimensions of a finger, stacked densely, and finally covered tight with dirt and moss. After a few hours, the tar starts to pour out and continues to do so for a few days.
96.28.43.27 (talk) 00:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glue 

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message: Peter Dekker's Manchu archery website is not a reliable source. He is not a historian but is an amateur arms collector and auctioneer. He is not a reliable source for the history of archery and not even for archery mechanics (draw weight, poundage) because he doesn't have qualifications  for those too. If no one can show Dekker's PhD in archery history or mechanics I will remove his citation and contents from the article.
This policy specifically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources
Dekker does not have a degree in Asian history or archery history, he doesn't speak Chinese, Manchu or Mongol.
Hukris (talk) 08:29, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peter Dekker