Arrow fletching method

A method of fletching arrows comprising the steps of:

• assembling a mold to define an elongated cylindrical cavity having a diameter slightly greater than that of an arrow shaft and having a plurality of circumferentially spaced thin radial extensions which define fletching shaped vanes contiguous with the mold cavity, the mold further defining cavity areas of increased diameter at the forward and rearward extremities of the cylindrical cavity such that the resulting molded article exhibits increased diameter annular forms at the longitudinal extremities thereof;
• locating a core within the mold cavity and longitudinally aligned and concentric therewith such that the void area of the cavity assumes a hollow cylindrical shape with an inner diameter slightly smaller than the outer diameter of said arrow shaft and having contiguous thin radial vanes, said locating step including the disposition of radially extending pins circumferentially between said vanes to hold the core in the concentric location;
• injecting fluid plastic into the cavity to form the integral combination of a hollow cylinder with radially extending fletching shaped vanes, the core locating pins forming a plurality of aligned perforations along the cylindrical body and between each of said fletching shaped vanes;
• removing the molded plastic article from the mold;
• sliding the molded plastic article onto an arrow shaft by gripping the forward annular form and pulling it and the fletching device onto the arrow shaft, and concurrently gripping the rearward annular form and pushing it and the fletching device onto the arrow shaft;
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• thereafter removing the forward and rearward annular forms by severing them from the cylindrical body.