Ressurection flight shooting
 

For the last several years my family has gathered at Easter and during the days events have held a family trap shoot. All ages and both sexes participate. Great fun is had by all. This year I intend to shake things up a bit and quiet things down by introducing them to archery trap shooting.





When friend and Archery icon and hall of fame'r Norb Mullaney

http://www.scout.com/outdoors/huntin...-norb-mullaney

moved into an assisted living center with his wife Teddy, the bulk of his archery collection was moved to the Wisconson Bowhunting heritage museum for safe keeping. I purchased the remains of the arrows and the arrow building supplies. The wealth of arrow and arrow related items filled about half the 8 foot bed of my truck. Woody's, Aluminums, Glass, carbon arrows and shafting and nocks and fletching related items that I still have not completely sorted through yet.

I set aside a bunch of the vintage American Eagle aluminums to build a small army's worth of Flu Flu arrows for our inaugural "Resurrection Flight shooting"



I picked up 9 dozen full length feathers from the Footed Shaft while attending the Wisconsin Traditional Archers annual convention in anticipation of this project.





Since the bowhunters in my family are compounders (I'm an outcast with my trad gear) I will have to bring 7 bows for them to use. I made a few of these bows. The rest are vintage stick bows.



Im cutting the aerial targets out of foam board. A 5 gallon bucket is my template.



I cut the feathers to 6 1/4" long as that's the longest that will fit in my fletcing jig. These left wing feathers get a heavy helical. I have a week and a half to crank out several dozen arrows.





To be continued..............

Bet they won't get a bang out of that! Sorry, I couldn't help myself! :wink:

That bow on the extreme left looks just like the bow I had when I was a kid. Mine was a 17# draw and was my constant companion every day (especially the summer). I could really shoot that thing and where I first experienced the magical flight of the arrow.

37 flu flu arrows are finished. (I had more feathers than I thought)



I made up some quivers to pound into the round



And I gathered up some protection for the novice archers.



All ready for launch day.

Here are some pictures and video.