How many arrows would people advise me to have in stock at once? Could anyone give me some tips on fletching and what I should use?
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Well, how many you have depends on a few things. 12 is a pretty good number, enough that if you break a couple you can continue shooting in a field shoot, but not so many as to be really expensive if you find you have goofed on the spine or fletching. I am assuming here that you are buying your shafting material and not making it from scratch from hazel wands, or splitting down boards. If that were the case, I would go for just six.
For fletching you would do best, in the beginning, to go with the commercially available turkey feathers. You can get them pre-cut, or trim your won from full length feathers. Trying to split down your own flight feathers is hard to do well without some practice and I wouldn't know where you would go to get such feathers.
There are fletching glues that you can buy, but they are not all compatible with the finishes that you might apply to seal the shafts, so do some experiments lest all you fletchings drop off
What kind of bow do you have, and what kind of archery are you interested in? Some more details of where you are now would be useful for folks to give relevant advice.
For fletching you would do best, in the beginning, to go with the commercially available turkey feathers. You can get them pre-cut, or trim your won from full length feathers. Trying to split down your own flight feathers is hard to do well without some practice and I wouldn't know where you would go to get such feathers.
There are fletching glues that you can buy, but they are not all compatible with the finishes that you might apply to seal the shafts, so do some experiments lest all you fletchings drop off
What kind of bow do you have, and what kind of archery are you interested in? Some more details of where you are now would be useful for folks to give relevant advice.
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Most of the hunter/gatherer setups ive seen on films documentaries etc seem carry only a few half a dozen at most. and if you go out roving with some pals thats really all you need. If you want to get into feild archery then go with a dozen as mentioned previously.
Remember when buying wooden shafts for a longbow that the spines are usually stated for recurves which generally need a stiffer spine that longbows. Go for a spine rated for 25-30% lighter that your actual draw weight ie 30lb shafts for a 40lb bow etc
If you are just starting out then you could do worse than pick up 6 assorted shafts, say 2 each of a range of weights and try them out to see which shafts come off the bow nicely. This will give good practice in fletching piling etc, give a good guide to the actual spine you need - and you wont be really naffed off if (when) you lose/break them. Then with this experience you can go and make a really nice set of 12 and be the envy of evrybody on the firing line (OK scrub that last bit maybe)
Cheers
Nick
Most of the hunter/gatherer setups ive seen on films documentaries etc seem carry only a few half a dozen at most. and if you go out roving with some pals thats really all you need. If you want to get into feild archery then go with a dozen as mentioned previously.
Remember when buying wooden shafts for a longbow that the spines are usually stated for recurves which generally need a stiffer spine that longbows. Go for a spine rated for 25-30% lighter that your actual draw weight ie 30lb shafts for a 40lb bow etc
If you are just starting out then you could do worse than pick up 6 assorted shafts, say 2 each of a range of weights and try them out to see which shafts come off the bow nicely. This will give good practice in fletching piling etc, give a good guide to the actual spine you need - and you wont be really naffed off if (when) you lose/break them. Then with this experience you can go and make a really nice set of 12 and be the envy of evrybody on the firing line (OK scrub that last bit maybe)
Cheers
Nick
I'm making my shafts from scratch, I use a bow that generally fires arrows of about 29" long but this is flexible; I try to experiment. At the moment I tend to glue then stitch the feathers on. Often I just use goose or pheasant feathers as I can find them easily (I know people with geese).C_Claycomb said:Well, how many you have depends on a few things. 12 is a pretty good number, enough that if you break a couple you can continue shooting in a field shoot, but not so many as to be really expensive if you find you have goofed on the spine or fletching. I am assuming here that you are buying your shafting material and not making it from scratch from hazel wands, or splitting down boards. If that were the case, I would go for just six.
For fletching you would do best, in the beginning, to go with the commercially available turkey feathers. You can get them pre-cut, or trim your won from full length feathers. Trying to split down your own flight feathers is hard to do well without some practice and I wouldn't know where you would go to get such feathers.
There are fletching glues that you can buy, but they are not all compatible with the finishes that you might apply to seal the shafts, so do some experiments lest all you fletchings drop off
What kind of bow do you have, and what kind of archery are you interested in? Some more details of where you are now would be useful for folks to give relevant advice.
Cawolf, you really should have said a bit more in that first post 
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Talk about my trying to teach grandma to suck eggs 
