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Port Orford Cedar youth and hunting arrows, and traditional flemish braided bow strings.

I collect books (I used to collect books). I have a English degree from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. I also, and still do collect old carpenters' hand tools. I had a good head start on tool collecting because I was a carpenter until I bought my archery business.

English

Any excuse to be outdoors. I love traditional archery, bicycling, cross country skiing, hunting, camping (all four seasons), fishing, even shovelling snow, anything that gets me outdoors. I do volunteer trail clearing in the Boundry Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesta. All I have time for recently is one week long trip. I also enjoy painting (art) and photography and I am rarely without a sketch book or pad.

My favorite authors? Sigurd Olsen, Jack London (of couse), super Robert Service fan, John Stienbeck (especially Travels With Charlie), Hemingway and (believe it or not) Shakespeare. Favorite books? I have more than one thousand on the bookshelves. I have a couple hundred more around the house and garage. I also own a dozen or so versions of the bible. The only magazines I keep are Traditional Bowhunter and TradArchers World.

I own hundreds. Favorites? Most recently Lord Of The Rings (all of them), the original Star Wars, White Fang (Charleton Heston), Alien (the first), Independence Day, and all the Fred Bear and Howard Hill videos and movies (I shoot a Howard Hill bow).

Bob Seeger and the Silver Bullet Band, Steve Winwood, Fleetwood Mac, a lot of little-known blues and jazz (Gatemouth Brown, old, old Fleetwood Mac, 103rd Street Rythm Band, lots of others) and old country (Hank Williams, Woodie Guthrie, lots).

I absolutely would not launch an arrow at a game animal at longer than 35 yards but I make it a habit to practice shooting at sixty to one hundred yards at the range. I also shoot in all weather conditions, attend several 3D shoots each year, spend a lot of time in the woods stump shooting (use Judo points). And finally, a eBay customer suggested shooting at baloons on windy days. It's the most fun and really helps improve focus and concentration. Several of the 3D shoots I attended this year had moving targets and in actual hunting most of the targets I get are moving. The balloon practice really works and is GREAT FUN. Kids really love the balloon shooting too.

I bought Thunder Lake Archery in Sept 2009. I am the third owner. The original name was Van's Archery. Most of the equipment I use was hand built by Van. Some is nearly an hundred years old and needed a lot of repair and maintanence. Others were made seventy years ago or more so it was difficult, to say the least, to find some where to look for repairs and parts. Through an archery retailer and dealer I found a machinist in IA to fabricate repair parts and teach me how to properly set up and use some of the machines. The rest has been trial and error. I also added a few modern machines made by the same machinist. Not only is the machinery unique, but the arrows I can build are uniqe as well.

I prefer to use PayPal for payments as it allows me to do what I want to do, make arrows. PayPal is the most secure payment method for both customer and retailer. PayPal is also the fastest method for recieving your orders. When an order is placed I prepare it for shipping, when payment is clear I ship the package. PayPal does the clearing of payments immediately, no waiting for the bank. You, as the customer, can feel secure that I have been cleared by PayPal and that your payment will be sent to the correct party and NO ONE will have access to your information other than your shipping address.

I ship worldwide. I do my best to keep shipping costs low and making sure your package arrives safely and on time. On orders when shipping is included I will discount international orders. I do not mark up shipping costs. I have had one package damaged in shipping and since then have changed to a more reliable packaging. I do not mark up shipping costs but I do include a minimal handling charge to offset the more expensive packaging I now use. I also do not profit from handling charges. My business is making arrows, not packaging.

I gladly accept returns if unused. If when you recieve your arrows if you aren't totally pleased, put them back in the box and send them back for a full refund of purchase price (less shipping). Please, check my feedback comments, I have not met or heard from anyone who does not like my arrows. Sorry but I cannot accept returns of custom cut to length, crown dipped, crested or fletched arrows. Only my stock arrows, those you see advertised are returnable. Custom bow strings (team colors, club colors, etc) are not returnable. PLEASE BE SURE STRING YOU ORDER IS THE CORRECT ONE FOR YOUR BOW.

email direct: joe.howland@gmail.com Mail correspondence direct to: J. Howland 3632 14th Av S Minneapolis, MN 55407