hunting feathers

[skinner biscuit]

#3992

What style of feathers do you use for hunting?

[lyagooshka]

#25812

S.B.,

By style do you mean shape, material or color? Or all of the above?

I have been buying pre-fab aluminum arrows (though I just ordered a set of woodies and can’t wait to get them). The feathers are shield cut. I believe they are a synthetic feather material. Cock feather white, hens are red, all three are barred.

The arrows I just ordered will have natural feathers (turkey, I think) cut in a banana shape. All three feathers are solid black.

Hope this is what you’re looking for.

Alex

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[wideangle]

#25893

Gateway 5 inch parabolic left wing.

[skinner biscuit]

#25965

I have been using shield cut but I just got some parabolics. Booth 5″.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#26230

4″ shields.

[Stephen Graf]

#26586

I cut the back off my 5″ shields and affix them to the shaft. That was my take-away from fooling with the AA profile. It lets me move the working part of the feather back towards the nock at least 1/4 inch. It seems quiet, and it eliminates some non-functioning feather from the arrow…

[wildschwein]

#26707

Mostly been a shield cut fan until I tried parabolic and found them a bit quieter. Always wanted to try banana cut though.

[Jason Wesbrock]

#26770

I buy full length feathers and chop two 4″ parabolics from each. Those are by normal fletching except for small game arrow, where I use whatever I can find.

[jeffmtnman]

#27083

skinner biscuit wrote: What style of feathers do you use for hunting?

I generally use 5″ or 5 1/2″ parabolic. The 5 1/2″ a little more stable. The banana cut, which I used to use, is even more stable but noisier in the air.

Your question seems to indicate that you would use a different style feather for hunting than you would for target shooting. I just can’t comprehend why you would do that since the key to accuracy is consistency.

Just my 2 cents

[David Coulter]

#27207

Hey,

There’s a thread devoted to feather noise in arrow flight. I have been using 4 inch, right wing, shields, cut straight at 3.5 inches. I’m getting really good arrow flight with that. I have about 26 % foc and will be shooting right, single bevels. dwc

[George McCloskey]

#27253

I’ve only used 5 or 5.5 shield cut feathers on my arrows, left wing, left helical using a bitzenberger. However, many of the fine choices already listed get you on the road to what you want to use. Seems like its a personal preference for most, like Bourbon.

[Stumpkiller]

#27272

Three 5″ parabolic.

[Raymond Coffman]

#27815

Three 4″ parabolics — although I am thinking about experimenting with the AA {Ashby} this summer . The only “real Noisy” flech I can remember were LARGE 5″ shields.

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