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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: LEGIONNAIRE on October 07, 2010, 03:19:46 am

Title: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: LEGIONNAIRE on October 07, 2010, 03:19:46 am

Just wanted to know if you guys liked pheasant tail feathers for flethcing. They are quite long and beutiful.

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: medicinewheel on October 07, 2010, 03:46:10 am

They are probably to soft; this has been discussed before, maybe you want to do a search on it.

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: Cacatch on October 07, 2010, 09:41:59 am

I like em and use em.

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: medicinewheel on October 07, 2010, 09:58:49 am

Cacatch, some pics would br nice!

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: Cacatch on October 07, 2010, 10:07:04 am

Let me see if I can get a couple put up this weekend. I've only made a couple arrows and they fly great. They are intended to resemble plains indian buffalo arrows. Since they are soft, I left em about 6.5 inches long. They look nice though, but they are super soft. There just aren't too many feathers I don't have one or another use for.

CP

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: LEGIONNAIRE on October 07, 2010, 02:08:19 pm

Compared to others in your opinion how well do they fly?

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: Cacatch on October 07, 2010, 02:23:34 pm

Well, I've come to like soft feathers. I've not shot em all that much, but as I said they are on short arrows and so they are shot from shorter bows with a shorter draw, but they flew as well as any arrow I've ever had, no problems whatsoever. Mind you though, the ones I have made have bone arrowheads on em and I've not tried any arrows with shorter pheasant feathers or without hunting heads on em. I recommend em, if you've got some. The ones I have I bought from Hobby Lobby.

On a related topic I also have some arrows I've made with grouse tail feathers. I'll try to post them as well. They also fly awesome, but I flecthed them a little differently since the feathers were so small and delicate. I put on 3 whole tail feathers, laying down flat against the shaft. Hopefully I can post pics and you all can see what I mean.

If I'm not totally mistaken, Jackcrafty has made arrows with pheasant also. Maybe he'll chime in too.

CP

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: Cacatch on October 10, 2010, 02:32:43 am

Let's see if this works. I will admit in advance that I am terrible as a photografer and even worse when it comes to computers. But these should give you some idea. The arrows are 27" from knock to tip of bone point. I don't remember exactly what the shaft was, but it was some shrub I found out in the wild. Pretty good shafts though, stay nice and straight. I couldn't figure out how to make the image show up here, so I hope you can open the link. If someone can explain to me how to post the image, I'd be grateful. --CP

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af327/cacatch/101_1836.jpg

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af327/cacatch/101_1829.jpg

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af327/cacatch/101_1839.jpg

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af327/cacatch/101_1840.jpg

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af327/cacatch/101_1837.jpg

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: medicinewheel on October 10, 2010, 10:07:10 am

Nice!

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: aznboi3644 on October 10, 2010, 02:34:50 pm

There should be a link you can copy and paste onto here to show pictures...it is labeled under "embed"

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: scattershot on October 10, 2010, 04:21:03 pm

(http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af327/cacatch/101_1836.jpg)

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: scattershot on October 10, 2010, 04:21:55 pm

(http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af327/cacatch/101_1829.jpg)

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: scattershot on October 10, 2010, 04:22:43 pm

(http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af327/cacatch/101_1839.jpg)

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: scattershot on October 10, 2010, 04:24:05 pm

(http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af327/cacatch/101_1840.jpg)

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: scattershot on October 10, 2010, 04:25:20 pm

(http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af327/cacatch/101_1837.jpg)

There ya go.

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: Cacatch on October 10, 2010, 09:20:54 pm

Cool, thanks Scatter. I don't see anything on there that says "imbed" though.  I see 4 different links:  E-mail, Direct Link, HTML, and IMG.  I tried copying all 4 and they all show up as a link and no image. Am I missing something?

-CP

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: LEGIONNAIRE on October 10, 2010, 11:15:52 pm

Beutiful arrows Cacatch! To get the images on here just copy and paste the IMG on your post and they will appear.

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: xin on October 11, 2010, 08:05:02 am

Very nice work. Thanks for sharing!!!

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: Cacatch on October 11, 2010, 10:29:15 am

Thanks guys, glad you like them. Let me try posting just an image to see if I can get it to work.

(http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af327/cacatch/101_1829.jpg)

-CP

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: Cacatch on October 11, 2010, 10:30:16 am

That was easy! Thanks guys!

CP

Title: Re: Who here likes pheasant tail feathers?
Post by: Sparrow on October 13, 2010, 10:40:37 pm

Fine looking work there. If they are shooting that good,there you are.  '  Frank