how do you keep your feathers dry

[Bryce]

Don't shoot in the rain and you're good to go 

For us PNW folk it always rains come hunting season

[adb]

use nothing or if I really really need it i will use the fat from browning taco meat. My dad pours it off(it makes it a signifigant amount healthier) into a can and I asked him to save it(haha I browned the meat but he poured it off

Fat drippings from browning ground meat?? On your feathers?? Really. What you bin smokin' boy?

Bohning makes a great feather dry powder. I believe it's talcum. But, like others, I very rarely shoot or hunt in the rain.

[Pappy]

What  Osage outlaw said,both times. :)I usually don't use anything,I only use primary wild turkey and really don't have a problem, years ago when I used bought feathers I used the same stuff Pat mentioned,worked great.  First time you shoot them is fun,get a big puff in the face.
   Pappy

[Ed Brooks]

Thanks for all the advice, sounds like I'll give it a go as is. I do have a few goose feathers for the late season (wet season) or if I have any issues with the early season. Thanks I guess I'm getting nervous with my 1st archery deer and elk season just two weeks away. Happy Hunting. Ed
PS; I'll hold off on the taco fat. 

[Tom Leemans]

Natural turkey feathers do a pretty good job by themselves but my stalker quiver has a fletching hood. The one on the string is usually protected by my arm.

[turtle]

Preening oil from the glan on a chickens butt

So....... Is this done with a live chicken? If it is i would like to see a video.

[adb]

Preening oil from the glan on a chickens butt

So....... Is this done with a live chicken? If it is i would like to see a video.

Me too! 

[Thesquirrelslinger]

Taco meat fat?  what the H*#@ is he talking about?
DBar

ya know, it looks like tallow and works just fine.
So try it.
before you rant on me.

[Bryce]

Preening oil from the glan on a chickens butt

So....... Is this done with a live chicken? If it is i would like to see a video.

Just squeeze into a little bottle

[adb]

Taco meat fat?  what the H*#@ is he talking about?
DBar

ya know, it looks like tallow and works just fine.
So try it.
before you rant on me.

I can't imagine how putting tallow on your feathers would do anything other than completely ruin them. Have you tried this, or is this another one of your 'opinions?' I think maybe you stuck your finger in it again??

[Thesquirrelslinger]

Taco meat fat?  what the H*#@ is he talking about?
DBar

ya know, it looks like tallow and works just fine.
So try it.
before you rant on me.

I can't imagine how putting tallow on your feathers would do anything other than completely ruin them. Have you tried this, or is this another one of your 'opinions?' I think maybe you stuck your finger in it again??

1. in my indian book from ben hunt, apparently the indians used to apply a light coat of bear grease to feathers to protect them. Well, I don't have bear grease... so why not cow grease? So far I have had absolutly no issues- BUT I do NOT use sinew to fletch my arrows, or any kind of glue and sinew. I use raffia fiber(a plant fiber)...
i also tried mixing a little of the stuff with bees-wax. worked fine as a bow finish. water beads up really nice.
issue- it never really dried though.
BTW in case you wondered- this stuff is clean beyond belief. It looks like lightish beeswax, except it has the consistancy of butter.

If you don't want to try it, fine. I wasn't trying to get you to. I wouldn't try it on any arrow with feathers glued on or with sinew.

[mullet]

This isn't primitive and may sound strange, but it works. The first time Chris Cade and I hunted the Alexacarrie Plantation a Tropical Storm moved in at 5:30 in the morning. We hunted in straight down rain from Dawn to Dusk. I had just finished a set of arrows and I hit them again, lightly with a mist of Polyurethane before I went. I had the only arrows that made it through the day with the fletching not laying flat.

Now, I just lightly hit them with Poly.

[crooketarrow]

  I'm lucky I can buck hunt everyday day of the season (AND DO). So a rain day is use'lly wecomed.
 I GUESS YOU CAN SAY I DON'T HUNT IN THE RAIN unless its a light rain. Although I did gobbler hunt a few morning in the rain this spring. I use turkey feathers mostly they have some oils in them. Not as water proff as geese feathers but you'd have to set in a down pour for your feathers to lay down.
 Back when I shot compounds (a life time ago 30 years) I bought water proffing. Try geese feathers it has a nature oils and are totally water proff.

[Marks]

Is this before or after you add the taco seasoning?
Can I just run my arrow thru my burrito supreme?

Just pokin

[PEARL DRUMS]

I don't. If it rains they get wet and lay down. They seem to shoot fine at 10 yards either dry or wet. So I don't mess with it anymore.