I took these newly fletched arrows up to the range yesterday and right off the bat one of the feathers came off the shaft.  I continued to shoot the arrow as it still went about as straight as I can shoot and it still gave me good practice in my form.

So, later I was talking with Lynn and he told me about how to build a tool out of leather that could help me to get my fletchings on straight.  He also suggested I wrap the fletchings with nylon thread and seal the thread ends with my glue.

So, home I came and went right to work getting the fletching tool fixed up.

It isn’t hard to see how it works and the whole idea is to keep the fletchings as straight on the arrow shaft as you can.  Of course you still have to glue the entire length of the feather quill in addition to the wrapping of the thread.  For this arrow I used a Canadian Goose feather I have laying around.  We will see how well it flys later on.

After the glue had dried, I proceeded to wrap the fletching with the thread and this is the outcome.

I didn’t take a picture  after trimming down the feathers to the shape similar to the other arrows.  We shall see how things go tonight at the range.

Bears Butt

January 12, 2015