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Guess what's molting...?

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Beadman:
Good find.Match em and strip em.A person can see the water repellant film on those goose feathers after fletching.To me goose is'nt quite as stiff as primaries from a turkey wing.I use them as a cock feather with turkey.That could stretch the amount of arrows done too.

crooketarrow:
   Around here the geese started molting last week. I fished 3 different ponds and got a couple dozzen fight feathers. I only use flight feathers but some of those secondarys look good. I'm sure you could use these also. I've got 2 other ponds and a park I hit that I get dozzens others from everyyear. Then by the end of JUNE I go back around.

gudspelr:
Nifty-I'm up in the Idaho

Crooketarrow-I managed to find some of the longer, stiffer flight feathers, but a lot more secondaries.  At this point, I figure I'll do some different fletching on some shafts and see how they all fly, then take the best results and make up some good hunting ones.  All the rest will hopefully make for good target and stumping arrows.


Jeremy

Nifty:
Went to the lake park yesterday afternoon, found about 12 good primaries (6 left and 6 right). Also picked up a nice handful of the bigger secondaries... I'll try them out and see how they compare to the turkey feathers!  8)

Thanks for the heads up!

Prarie Bowyer:
Woa!  I didn't realize you could get that many feathers on a haul.

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