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Arrows

Wooden Arrows
- These were Usually made with a bone or fire hardened tip

Fire Arrows
- Arrows with cloth tips often soaked in oil or fat

Signal Arrows
- blunt ends with holes running perpendicular to shaft causes whistling in flight. At times they were covered with an oiled cloth which was lit to make them more visible

Poison
- Arrow heads That were dipped in poisons of feces to caude deathe or infection. Some were designed to fall off shaft after striking to aid in recovery of shaft wood

Flint, obsidian
- Very sharp points and edges to kill or wound

Bone - The earliest arrow heads

Bronze - The earliest metal arrow heads

Steel - Later metal arrow heads

Blunts
- Arrows often used for small game

Moon Shaped
- Arrows that were designed to cut ropes, ship riggings and limbs

Scissor Shape
- Also designed tor cutting ropes and limbs

Bodkin
- A sharp pointed arrow without barbs designed to penetrate the links of chain mail. They were occasionally coated with wax to help penetrate plate

Barbed Arrows
- These were designed to increase size of wound and make it more difficult to extract the arow. Different sizes were used according to distance to be shot

Shafts
- While almost any wood could be used for shafts, some are superior to others. you want something which is not totally inflexible, but you also want something which won't explode when you try to shoot it. The most common are bamboo/reed, ash, poplar, birch, cedar

Fletch
While a number of different materials have been used for fletch, feathers are by far the most common and popular, even today. the purpose of fletch is to stabilize the arrow in flight you don't want something heavy that will weigh the arrow down and you want something with a low profile, so as not to cause wind resistance.

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