One of the most beautiful and useful parts of a wild turkey are its wing feathers. Oftentimes, hunters discard the wings, but there are actually many uses for the feathers. I keep them mainly for ...

Otzi carried 14 arrows in his quiver, but only two had arrowheads and feather fletching. Photo courtesy of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/H. Wisthaler Ötzi the Iceman never had a chance to take ...

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To get the desired effect of an arrow – something pointy stuck into someone that you don’t like – all you need is a pointed stick and something to launch it. So what are all those feathers doing on ...