right wing or left wing

[yazoo]

can you get right wing and left wing feathers off the same wing?

[Brother Dan]

No, right off the right wing, left off the left wing.  you can get 1st and secondary feathers off the same wing.

[stringstretcher]

Yazoo.  Not to differ with Brother Dan, but yes you can.  If you take a Right Wing Primary or Secondary, and split it, the bottom part of that feather is now a left wing and vise versa on the left wing.  Although not as stiff or as big, they can be used as left wing.  I would not use them for my hunting arrows, but definately use them on my roaming and target arrows to say my primaries for hunting and my best arrows

[xin]

Ambidextrous turkey , eh?

[madcrow]

I always strip both sides of the secondaries and keep them in seperate bags.

[yazoo]

I was thinking that one side of a secondary is right wing and the other side is left wing even though they came off the same wing

[DanaM]

I was thinking that one side of a secondary is right wing and the other side is left wing even though they came off the same wing

Mike that is exactly right, ahh I mean correct Primaries will be either left or right but on some of the secondaries you get both, simple eh

[Hillbilly]

I usually use both sides if I can. Like Mike said, the opposite sides behave like opposite wings.

[TRACY]

I"m with everyone on the secondaries having both. I've never been able to get enough feather off of the trailing side of the primary and just use the fuller side. I kick myself for all of the secondaries and tail feathers that I pitched before I started fletching "primitive " style.

Tracy