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Title: turky fan fletching?
Post by: recurve shooter on April 19, 2008, 01:58:16 pm: will the feathers from a turkey fan work for fletching? ??? i got some and wanna feather fletch a carbon shaft i got. just wondering if anyone has tried it.
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: El Destructo on April 19, 2008, 02:01:01 pm: CARBON......whats the Matter with you......CARBON!!!!!!!!!...................yeah they will work just fine...cut them loose...and slit them....sand the Quill down flat ...and glue them up like any other Turkey Feather >:D
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: recurve shooter on April 19, 2008, 02:05:34 pm: yeah, carbon, i know. i just got alot of em and i need something to replace the wooden arra i lost the other day. its just untill i get a ride to collect rivercane. thanx.
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: recurve shooter on April 19, 2008, 04:41:04 pm: ok. no carbon. just discovered that i practicly live in the middle of a freakin arra forist. sourwood. gonna go get a truckload of it now. later.
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: El Destructo on April 19, 2008, 06:54:00 pm: Quote from: recurve shooter on April 19, 2008, 04:41:04 pm
ok. no carbon. just discovered that i practicly live in the middle of a freakin arra forist. sourwood. gonna go get a truckload of it now. later.

You know that stuff is addictive....you better send that down to me!!!!!
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: recurve shooter on April 19, 2008, 07:04:27 pm: id be glad to, but i aint to good at collectin shafts. i just cut ALOT of stuf that looks like it could eventually be turned into something usefull. lol.
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: El Destructo on April 19, 2008, 07:10:21 pm: PICTURES....We need PICTURES...... Lets see the Purdy Shoots!!
;)
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: Hillbilly on April 20, 2008, 12:21:20 am: The tail feathers work fairly good-just be sure to use feathers from the same side of the tail on the same arrow.
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: recurve shooter on April 20, 2008, 03:23:22 pm: thanx hillbilly, will do. el desturcto, I AINT GOT A CAMERA!!! SEND ME ONE AND I'LL POST SOME DARN PICS!!!
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: El Destructo on April 20, 2008, 03:37:39 pm: Quote from: recurve shooter on April 20, 2008, 03:23:22 pm
thanx hillbilly, will do. el desturcto, I AINT GOT A CAMERA!!! SEND ME ONE AND I'LL POST SOME DARN PICS!!!

Didnt mean ta hit a Nerve!!!!!!!!!! ;)

Werent Yelling....Jest Excited....but some people cant tell the Difference
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: recurve shooter on April 20, 2008, 05:19:19 pm: i was mostly playin around. ;) my sister has one, i think, next time she comes over (she lives wit my grandpa) I'll get her to bring it for me.
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: El Destructo on April 20, 2008, 05:25:30 pm: Find the center of the Fan....cut em loose...and make sure that you keep the left and right seperate...and you should get enough to do 10 two Feather Fletched Arrows....or 6 three Feather Fletched Arrows with two feathers left for decorations!!
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: Coo-wah-chobee on April 20, 2008, 05:32:46 pm: Or 20 one fletch arras .........bob
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: recurve shooter on April 20, 2008, 05:44:38 pm: do one fletched arras even exist? i am watchin a documentary on navy seals. i wonder if they use bows? a bow is the ultimate stealth weapon. silent, light, the only prollem its that once ya stuck someone, the arra would point back at ya. i guess ya would have to stick and run eh? :P
Title: Re: turky fan fletching?
Post by: Pat B on April 20, 2008, 05:59:44 pm: The arrows Bob posted in his "...Seminole..." post are one fletch...turkey tail feather inserted in a split cane arrow with sinew wraps to hold it all together. Pat