How to Make a Bow and Arrow

Step 6 Adding feathers to the arrow

Feathers are used on the base of the arrow to make the arrow spin during flight, which made it more accurate. Most people don't have extra feathers lying around, so we will use heavy paper (card stock). Plastic could also be used as an alternative to the paper. Take the paper and cut right triangles out of it, the legs of the triangle should be about 1 and a quarter inches by 1 and three fourths inches. (The legs are the sides of the triangle that are not opposite the right angle.) Take these triangles and glue the second longest side near the base of the arrow about a quarter of an inch away from the very bottom. Make sure to evenly space the triangles out around the circumference of the arrow. Now cut a small notch into the center of the base of the bow for the string to sit in, without this notch the arrow would be extremely hard to shoot.

Comments

[Metalcaster14]

actually I think the flights are for keeping the arrow on a straight course

[Caboose32899]

There not called flights there called fletchings trust me iam in archery .

[RLewisH]

They're not called either, they're called vanes.

[jeffconnelly]

They are called any and all of these terms plus others. It depends on the person.

[Capt. Kidd]

fletchings.

[Jusamies]

I suggest we just call them simply feathers for siplicity's sake and to avoid a very pointless argument...

[Ditz]

Your "feathers" shouldn't really be so close to the bottom, they should be about an inch (2.5 ish centimetres) from the end of the arrow. They also shouldn't be perfect triangles but more of a parallelogram.