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Heartbroken, gutted and angry with myself
Handforged:
Ditto, I have goose feather running out of my ears. be glad to toss some in a flat rate box and send them your way. Our limit is 30 per day per person here in Montana. I have a guide friend that essentially fills up lawn and leaf bags with wings for me every season.
JW_Halverson:
It's ok, really. I am happily recovering from the foolish attraction of making arrows. I only had 'em as trade goods, really. I have no intention of making arrows ever again. It's better for my sike-o-logicull well-being.
What little there is left.
Hawkdancer:
Well, remember - I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane! Waylon must have been a bow maker! (lol). If you do need feathers, let me know and if ye olde turkey hunt recurs, Hopefully, I can make it, if the tide turns my way! Btw, we scored 3 birds last season! :G :G :G! (lol) (lol) (lol)! Those are some of the feathers I have! >:D
Hawkdancer
Eric Krewson:
I gave up on mothballs years ago, I hate the smell as well, an arrow that seems to have lost the smell on the fletching will start stinking again if you are out on a humid day.
I changed to borax years ago.
I have so many ground wild turkey feathers that I quit keeping what wings people give me now and give them to a friend.
I did send them to Custom Feathers to be ground on the halves, he trades primaries for fans ad secondaries as well. The lady he sends them to to be ground has RA and has been unable to grind feathers as the condition of her hands worsens. He wanted the secondaries cut off still attached to the skin flap, boraxed and dried with the quills intact.
I have an ice chest I put my clipped off primaries in, I cut them of the wing with a bandsaw. Once in the ice chest I give them a good sprinkle of borax, I shake the ice chest every now and then to redistribute the borax, no bugs.
I put my ground primaries in a huge ziploc bag, throw in about 1/4 cup of borax and give the bag a good shake, no bugs, ever.
WhistlingBadger:
Bummer, John. I need to throw a little bit of borax in my feather/leather bags, now that spring is here and the critters are moving again. Thanks for the reminder.
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