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first foreshaft arrow
D. Tiller:
I wonder if I can use seagull feathers for this. They tend to be all over the beaches around where I am.
Pat, I'm doing the same thing with my rosewood shafts with the foreshaft but also doing it with the nocks too. Seems to make the whole shaft heavier and fly better. Penetration on my hay bales exceeds my port orford shafts by a ton. Now I'm thinking when I go hunting I can bring 6 to 12 arrows in my kit and a bunch of stone points on fore shafts ready to go. If I break a point I just put another in the arrow and away I go. If I hit an animal, Pigs which I want to hunt, the foreshaft pops out and the arrow is saved from being broken by a running hog or deer. I like it!!!
Pat B:
Patrick, yours is a bit neater than mine and I bind before and after folding the feather. I guess it really doesn't matter.
David, Any feathers will work. There are lots of sea bird feathers along the NW coast. They should work fine if there is no restriction against using them.
SOM, they work well this way and are quite secure. Patrick's method is a bit neater than mine but you get the idea. Pat
Dustybaer:
pat, great looking arrow and fascinating fletching method. always meant to try it, never got to it.
ricktrojanowski:
Pat-
Thanks for posting the pics of fletching with that style. I have a bunch of smallish goose wing feathers. It looks like that syle will work great for them.
Pat B:
Rick, here are a few pics of an arrow James Parker(robustus) gave me with small goose feathers tied on like these others.
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