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david w.:
is there  any way to make a whistling arrow/arrowhead?  Sort of like a signal arrow or something.

Papa Matt:
Brother, I don't know about whistling personally--but I have read that the English longbowmen used to cut the feathers with notches or something to produce a whistling effect, for the purpose of instilling fear in the enemy when they hear thousands of whistling arrows raining down on them from hundreds of yards away.

The only thing I have personally done that I can tell you about, I did by accident. I made me some practice arrows and come to find out did not really put the right kind of fletching on them. When I shoot them, they kind of sound like a flu flu and make a sound through the air like they are shooting flames. This is because I used softer wing feathers from the wild turkey and twisted them so they arrows would spiral. I did not use the hard primary wing feathers. Also, I left the feathers too high and didn't trim them down enough. Anyway, that's the only sound I've ever been able to produce from an arrow. I am pretty sure the article about whistling arrows said they had notches of some kind cut in the feathers. I will read on it and post again if I find the article.

-Ol Matt

Papa Matt:
Brother, I think I was wrong about notching the feathers. I put "Whistling Arrows" in a yahoo search and have been reading that they used to drill holes in the arrowheads. Now that you've mentioned it, I think I will try one too.

Hillbilly:
There is an online tutorial somewhere for making whistling arrowheads from ping-pong balls. If I get a chance later, I'll try to look it up. Kustom King archery sells whistling heads.

huntertrapper:
i have had my feathers make kinda of a swoosh sound from being to fluffy but sounds like arrowheads with holes would do it

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