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Jayb
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Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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July 19, 2015, 12:54:00 PM »
Going to Canada for geese and ducks in Oct and last year they got into a lot of snow geese. Already planning to keep all the geese primary feathers but curious if snow geese is the same. I'm thinking good white fletching
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Re: Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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July 19, 2015, 12:58:00 PM »
I don't know for sure, but it's a gamble I'd take! I'd process a few right wing (in my case) primary feathers and give it a go.
I'm betting it will work out as good as cinnamon and sugar!
Good luck on the hunt.
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Re: Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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July 19, 2015, 03:01:00 PM »
If I am not mistaken, snow geese have dark blue primaries. Their secondaries are white
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Re: Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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July 19, 2015, 06:44:00 PM »
I'd sure give it a try!
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yup ya sure can
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Re: Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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July 19, 2015, 08:43:00 PM »
Yes and they are naturally more waterproof. We shoot many geese here in Texas , I save wings for fletching every year.
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Re: Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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Re: Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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July 20, 2015, 08:00:00 AM »
Goose feathers are a little,stiffer than turkey and more water proof.
The stiffness makes them a little more noisy, probably could go smaller for same stabilization of arrow.
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Re: Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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July 20, 2015, 10:40:00 AM »
Every snow goose I ever shot had black primaries feathers that could be used for arrow fletching. You would have to hunt swans to get white primaries. It is possible to do just that in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin in the Mississippi valley. Greater Canadian's primaries make great fletch and there are a lot to be shot around here, but those are are not white either.
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Re: Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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July 21, 2015, 10:14:00 AM »
Just the feathers, using the whole goose upsets the FOC.
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Tim Finley
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Re: Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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July 21, 2015, 12:32:00 PM »
Snow goose feathers aren't much different than Canada they are a little soft you have to cut them low to make them stiff enough and they are black. I have tried snow goose ,Canada goose,sandhill crane, and turkey is by far the best !!
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Re: Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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July 22, 2015, 06:54:00 AM »
I agree with Tim,if you ever go goose hunting around the eastern shore of Md,there's a number of goose and duck pluckers,they save and sell the feathers but they'll give you all the wings you want..Turkey is way better but if you like black feathers,goose does well,they're just not as durable...
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Jayb
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Re: Can you use Snow Geese feathers for fletching?
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July 22, 2015, 08:20:00 AM »
Thanks. I'll keep a couple to try out. Hopefully we get more Canada geese than Snows
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Has anyone tried using primaries, or secondaries, from Sandhill Cranes? Just curious.
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Msturm
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Anyone experiment with female peacock primaries? There are a bunch of em here in Hawaii. I find a few good feathers laying around...
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