anyone used snow goose feathers for fletching?

[Michael Arnette]

just curious if there was a good source for them?

[two4hooking]

I use Canada goose....not much difference in a snow goose I think as they have black primary feathers also right?????

[Michael Arnette]

Well dang I just assumed they were white

[Crested Finger]

What about crow feathers? how do they work?

[FerretWYO]

Snow goose is nearly the same color. They are tough to get even one good feather unless they are big ones.

[kbetts]

Snow goose is dark grey/black.  There can be variations if the feather is from a juvenile.  I have a bunch if you want to try them.  Not as durable as standard fletching but waterproof and work fine for me.  I have no issue getting a full length feather.

[CRS]

I used Canada's on 1/2 dozen.  Not very durable.

[elk nailer]

I. use Canada's for my cock feather

[dino]

I've ground up about 400 snow geese fletchings and they are much shorter than the Canadian goose primaries. Many make 4" fletchings and few made 5".  Durability wise I don't see a lot if difference but I would seek out Canadians if you have a choice.  Dino

[Ray Hammond]

Canada as Dino said.....more waterproof....not as tough as turkey but they do just fine. They are gray in color.

[Snow Crow]

Originally posted by Crested Finger:
What about crow feathers? how do they work?

Not well for me.  Short in height, short in length, non-existent oil line, fine (non robust) structure.

Flew fine, but after dozen or so shots looked like the fletchings had been repeatedly pulled through a heartburn suffering buzzard gizzard.  Backwards.

[TealCoin]

"Flew fine, but after dozen or so shots looked like the fletchings had been repeatedly pulled through a heartburn suffering buzzard gizzard"


Just made my day!

[Brock]

i have some Canada goose fletched arrows....mostly for more water resistance.  Fly great...not as durable as edges starting to fray a little but has not affected arrow flight in my opinion....will keep using until I am down to the quill. LOL

[Hud]

There is an old topic on this, and Rob made up some in another topic.

[dino]

I'll blame that on an internet gremlin  

[wingnut]

After a goose hunt a few years back where I collected about 100 left wings from the guys that were cleaning birds, we fletched a bunch of stump arrows with them.  They flew great, were quiet but were not as durable as turkey.

I'd use them exclusively if I had a source for them.

These were lessers and specs.

Mike