Standard Arrow

Ash or birch shaft, goose-feather fletching; workaday deer or skirmish arrow.

A workaday arrow of ash or birch, fletched with three trimmed goose feathers bound in sinew and pitch, and tipped with a small socketed iron head suitable for deer, game, or a skirmish at middling range. Archers, scouts, and militia keep quivers of these for common work; a fletcher can turn out a bundle in a morning, and a careful shooter will draw a shaft from the carcass and refletch it for another day’s shooting.