Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: PrimitiveTim on August 15, 2013, 02:08:54 pm
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Fletching arrows is not my favorite park of arrow making. There is almost always something little that is wrong or I mess up the feather as I'm splitting it. Anyway, there are a lot of things I have to do right to get the fletchings on there well.
I decided I'd try something new. It was a bit risky cause if it didn't work I'd basically be messing up an arrow shaft. I'm not a risk taker so I took an old shaft that I had harvested dead. With that shaft I don't have much to lose. I split it right down the middle of the nock to the first node right after the nock. I took two shorter tail feathers from a turkey and put them face to face and slid veins down into the split. I wrapped sinew on either side of the feather once it was all the way in. Threw a small game point on the end this things flies quiet as an owl and straight as an....arrow. :P
I'll keep shooting it and if it holds up I don't see any reason why I'll ever use a different method. Heck I didn't trim this one up.
(https://sphotos-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/945808_10151689940589865_597601371_n.jpg)
(https://sphotos-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/1014368_10151689940344865_368284081_n.jpg)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1157489_10151689940664865_63149195_n.jpg)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1185891_10151689940244865_1475854049_n.jpg)
There's nothin' to it but to do it!
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Glad to see this, I have thought about doing this also, when I was really low on feathers I tied just one complete feather to the out side of the shaft. It didn't hold up as well as my others, but it will do the job.
Nice arrow. Ed
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Nice looking arrow. I dont remember ever seeing it done with two feathers before but i have with one feather.
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,2180.0.html
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Yeah, with the slight curve and the tail feathers being so soft I though it would be good to have two in there to keep the equilibrium. Plus they're too short to use for normal fletching.
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That's a traditional Seminole fletch. Coowachobee used to fletch all of his that way.
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Well, seems like i'm gonna have to keep doing them this way cause it's so easy and so effective.
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very cool! I just tried it with goose feathers, little to medium sized... and it works really good minus one thing-
it doesn't seem to have as much drag as normal fletching(it takes longer to correct its flight)