Sorry I didn't update on how the yew seige bow turned out, my computer got fried in a lightning storm :mad:... It's shooting fine at 28"@142lbs all finished up... Sold it at faire for $1250, not a bad deal for a cheap piece of yew and a couple hours of work if you ask me.<br> <br> Anyway, I'm looking to get some grey goose feather fletchings before this hunting season. Last year, my turkey feather fletching soaked flat to the arrow often while out hunting. I've been looking around on the web, but can't seem to find any grey goose fletchings or feather from a good supplier. Do you guys know of any?<br> <br>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Nope, but if you find some let us know. They are superior fletchings when it comes to moisture resistance.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Georgia></FONT> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Georgia>-Brian</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Just a suggestion for goose feathers, (I know this will sound drastic, but if ya think about it, it's in keeping with the "traditional" aesthetic). We have local farm sales every weekend around here. About daylight, a local empty lot fills up with booths and tents selling everything from homegrown honeycomb in jars to 50lbs pigs. I have bought roosters, ducks and other birds there. I take' em home, quickly dispatch them, and pull the feathers to tie flies with. There is also the added benefit of a good meal for the evening (ya gotta cook some of those roosters "long and low" or they can be an exercise to chew). I have often seen some of those huge grey yard geese for sale as well. These could make good fletching as well as a good roasted goose supper.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Just a Thought.</P>
Lol Keith, that's a pretty good idea. I'll look into local farm sales, see if anyone around here farms geese. Thanks for the suggestion.<br>
I'm pretty sure I have some Canada goose primaries and secondaries left. They are not ground or processed at all. Is that what you're looking for? If so how many do you need/want?
<FONT size=2> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">What a pity that you life the other side of the "big lake". Have lots of grey goose left and right wing feathers ;-)</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/Hartung/anseranser.jpg" align=baseline border=0></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Hope your journal is doing well and wish you good luck with it...</P></FONT>
Hey caveman, thanks for the offer, but I'm looking to buy between 150 and 200 primary feathers, that should give me enough to fletch 8 dozen arrows or so, depending on the size of the feather. Don't think you have that much lying around. Raven Arrows sells grey goose feathers, I shall give him a call soon and see what he charges.<br>
you must break a lot of arrows
Well, my grouping is getting to tight for my own good. I'm now only shooting four arrows at a time when target shooting to avoid hitting and thus damaging the arrows already in the target. Since I shoot at least an hour a day, thats during the school year, in summer break I shoot considerably more, the number of broken arrows per day of target archery is usually between 1 and 4. This is why I started making my own arrows in the first place, to avoid the cost of having to keep buying custom made arrows.<br>
<FONT size=2> <P>You might try contacting the local Ducks Unlimited chapter to find some waterfowl hunters that would be willing to save some wings for you. Maybe offer a donation to the chapter in exchange.</P> <P>Brian</P></FONT>