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  2. Flu-flu arrow - Wikipedia

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    Flu-flu arrows have a distinctive design of fletching, normally made by using long sections of feathers; in most cases six or more sections are used, rather than the traditional three. Alternatively, two long feathers can be spiraled around the end of the arrow shaft.

  3. Plume hunting - Wikipedia

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    Plume hunting is the hunting of wild birds to harvest their feathers, especially the more decorative plumes which were sold for use as ornamentation, particularly in hat-making (millinery). The movement against the plume trade in the United Kingdom was led by Etta Lemon , Eliza Phillips , Emily Williamson , and other women, and led to the ...

  4. Glossary of archery terms - Wikipedia

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    Fletching showing index feather (a.k.a. cock feather – green) and hen feathers (pink) half-out (equipment) – A type of arrow insert placed inside an arrow shaft, but with a portion extending beyond the end of the shaft by more than a nominal amount. Most often chosen to allow standard-threaded heads to be used with small-diameter shafts.

  5. Fletching - Wikipedia

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    In English archery, the male feather, from a cock, is used on the outside of the arrow, while the other two stabilizing feathers are from a female, or hen. Traditional archery lore about feather curvature is that a right handed archer should shoot a right winged feather and right handed helical, and a left handed archer should use the opposite.

  6. Archery - Wikipedia

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    Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows. [1] ... The fletching may be either parabolic cut (short feathers in a smooth parabolic curve

  7. Arrow - Wikipedia

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    Traditional target arrow (top) and replica medieval arrow (bottom) Modern arrow with plastic fletchings and nock An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow.A typical arrow usually consists of a long, stiff, straight shaft with a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, multiple fin-like stabilizers called fletchings mounted near the rear, and ...

  8. Modern competitive archery - Wikipedia

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    Modern competitive target archery is often governed by the World Archery Federation, abbreviated as WA (sometimes also referred to as FITA, from its former French name of Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc). Olympic rules are derived from WA rules. Target archery competitions may be held indoors or outdoors.

  9. Tupinambá cape - Wikipedia

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    When feathers were knotted with a single string they would turn more fluidly, with a second string often added to fix them more firmly in place. Writer and explorer Jean de Léry published his History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Also Called America (1578), describing his experiences living amongst the Tupinambás .

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