Flight Arrows
We have made reference to flight arrows from time to time,and I believe the reader has a fairly good picture of them. Wewill, however, assemble these statements into a descriptivereview.
The flight arrow must be stiff enough to be shot from aheavy bow, yet they must be as light in weight as possible.To meet these specifications, the flight arrow is barreledshape. The swell is found with its greatest diameter about8 or 9 inches from the nock end where it gets the severeststrain. The lower or pile end is less than 1/4 inch diametertapering up to the swell. The nock end is 1/4 inch diameterand tapers forward to the swell. The pile is usually the jacketof a 22 cal. bullet or a special ferrule turned from aluminum.The fletching consists of three small veins of celluloid. Noattempt is made to match them as their sole purpose is to bedriven as far from the archer as possible. See Fig. 22.
