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Offline Strelets

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Re: Heartbroken, gutted and angry with myself
« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2020, 04:40:56 am »
Thanks for the warning JW. I recently acquired 60 primary peacock feathers. Having read your post, I ordered some mothballs straight away. 
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Offline DC

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Re: Heartbroken, gutted and angry with myself
« Reply #16 on: May 16, 2020, 09:45:13 am »
I love Peacock fletching. Such a great colour.
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Offline Strelets

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Re: Heartbroken, gutted and angry with myself
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2020, 02:02:58 am »
And they make good durable fletchings. They were the favourite for top-quality arrows in medieval England. Peacock feathers would have been more easily obtainable then. Nowadays peafowl are only kept for show, but in they used to rear them for meat until   turkeys arrived in England in the 16th century. Even in Victorian times peacock was preferred over turkey for the best arrows.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Heartbroken, gutted and angry with myself
« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2020, 09:00:27 pm »
They have a nice color, too.
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Offline Rākau

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Re: Heartbroken, gutted and angry with myself
« Reply #19 on: July 17, 2020, 08:08:31 pm »
Glad I read this, I have a bunch of split Canada goose primaries and whole Black swan primaries in the garage. I better do something to stop the bugs!
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Offline Hawkdancer

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Re: Heartbroken, gutted and angry with myself
« Reply #20 on: July 18, 2020, 12:02:07 am »
Raid don't work to well, mothballs have a bad smell, so go with borax, it's cheap, and in most grocery markets, and smells sort of nice!
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Offline JEB

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Re: Heartbroken, gutted and angry with myself
« Reply #21 on: July 18, 2020, 06:13:45 am »
I freeze for a week, take them out of the freezer for a few days to thaw and then re freeze. I do this a couple of times. This seems to take care of the mites. Thawing them out between freezing seems to let any mite eggs hatch and then freezing takes care of them. Not a big deal to do it this way.
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