Fletch an Arrow with Natural Feathers
"Under the most favorable circumstances, however, the most skillful Indian workman can not hope to complete more than a single arrow in a hard day's work. In a short fight, or an exciting dash after game, he will expend as many arrows as will keep him busily at work for a month to replace." You want generous, robust and long feathering on your shaft; this will provide you with a very forgiving arrow which as the feathers wear with shooting, will still provide guide. A powerful draw will need to make up for an over fletched arrow and good skill with a bow will need to make up for scant feathering. Using small feathers is fine, but they will wear to useless sooner so you will need to put four or more on your shaft to maintain a strong guide potential. Unlike the archers of yore, we can't get most big feathers ethically as many of the birds feathers these archers had used came from birds which are today near too or are extinct; so - if you have feathers short or long, yo
