Sunset Hill Longbows and Leather

         Who hasn't looked at a photo of Howard Hill and thought it was so neat, and possibly inspiring as well, that a man successfully hunted big game animals with a longbow and feather-fletched arrows that rode in a backquiver for all to see. How many archers over the years saw those photos and wanted to be just like him?  Probably a whole bunch.  A component of those photos that got replayed in minds' eyes over and over was the image of heavily-feathered arrows, shamelessly displayed, doing their job and playing a big part in the success that Hill enjoyed.         Back in Hill's day when there was a fairly large difference between the tackle used by target archers and hunting archers, the arrows used by either side had noticeably different sizes of fletching.  The target archers used lightweight bows and lightweight arrows fletched with small, rather cute fletching.  Their arrow tips were just a nub, a small point only...