Fletching arrows is not my favorite park of arrow making. There is almost always something little that is wrong or I mess up the feather as I'm splitting it. Anyway, there are a lot of things I have to do right to get the fletchings on there well.
I decided I'd try something new. It was a bit risky cause if it didn't work I'd basically be messing up an arrow shaft. I'm not a risk taker so I took an old shaft that I had harvested dead. With that shaft I don't have much to lose. I split it right down the middle of the nock to the first node right after the nock. I took two shorter tail feathers from a turkey and put them face to face and slid veins down into the split. I wrapped sinew on either side of the feather once it was all the way in. Threw a small game point on the end this things flies quiet as an owl and straight as an....arrow.
I'll keep shooting it and if it holds up I don't see any reason why I'll ever use a different method. Heck I didn't trim this one up.
There's nothin' to it but to do it!
