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Harrifer:
I'm not a terribly experienced fletcher.

My first arrows had pigeon feather fletching, since it was all I had at the time and I just wanted to shoot. They were absolutely rubbish. I did combine them with some I found from a sparrowhawk once but they were just as bad.

I havent tried crow, but I have a few crow feathers lying around, could make some cool arrows, sort of evil looking.

My current set are fletched with Canada Goose feathers that I found. They were primary wing feathers and were enourmous, and very rigid. I found them very good, but since I don't hunt (illegal in the UK+canada goose doesn't taste that good) I have to work with droppers.

Does anyone know if its possible to get hold of domestic goose feathers from a butchers? Could be interesting.

bobnewboy:
Hi Harrifer,  my advice would be to get round to some friendly farmers round here in Surrey (avoid the F&M affected though).. Many farmr raise geese for the table or for watchdogs, and hey, "Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat....."

gene roberts:
sounds good

makete:

--- Quote from: Hillbilly on September 23, 2007, 08:02:31 pm ---I've used crow feathers for Eastern woodland-style two-feather fletching, work pretty good. I like the tail feathers for those because they lay flatter to the shaft. Crow feathers are also good for the Cherokee/Creek-style radial fletching with three feathers laid flat on the shaft.

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               Would really like to see a pic of this style.

Hillbilly:
I'll try to get a pic up when I get a few minutes-might be a couple days. Are you interested in the two-feather, or the radial?

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