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Rabbit skin fletching

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broken arrow:
Your Atlatl sure is interesting . Do you also throw the darts with a leather boot lace ? My son was telling me about that. Apparently the leather lace is loosly attached to the tail of the dart and cast with the long lace.

broken arrow:
Hi Matt,
Re your questions on rabbit skin fletching . The strips are close to 3\16 inch and spirally applied.They shoot well. I can only imagine that rabbit skin would have been a traditional fletching material. They shoot well . Really different as they are totally quiet with no cock feather side. Thanks for asking about them

wolfsire:

--- Quote from: broken arrow on May 12, 2009, 02:11:11 pm ---Your Atlatl sure is interesting . Do you also throw the darts with a leather boot lace ? My son was telling me about that. Apparently the leather lace is loosly attached to the tail of the dart and cast with the long lace.

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Nope, but I have seen a couple of designs that might be what your are talking about.  Like a sling, the lever can be floppy and all different kinds of things can add drag to control you missile flight.  A couple of years ago, I made both an atlatl and dart out of old dried horseweed/mare's tail.  For fletcing I used some ripped up pieces of plastic grocery bag tied as a ribbon at the back.  Flew much better than without, but it was very loud.

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