FEATHER LENGTH

[fishon]

#7258

great forum, I am a new member and new to Traditional Archery.

So here’s my question, can your feather’s be too long, I have gone with 5″ feathers but have noticed others only use 4″. Or does it come down to preference?

[Col Mike]

#59899

Welcome aboard. You are going to get more input to that question then you can think of. First input–Check out the Ashby forum and read and view all the video’s–you may be surprised on what that fletching means or does.

Have Fun here

Mike

[jason samkowiak]

#60009

As Mike said you will get lots of opinions on this.

Good news is there is no wrong answer.

Lots of guys shoot 5.5 inch high back, lots shoot 5 in, 4 in, 3 in, some even 2in. Some shoot 3 feathers others shoot 4.

Endless options.

Imo, fletching is designed to prevent the broadhead from steering. If your arrows are tuned good fletching is only needed for broadheads. I shot 5.5 high back for over 20 years and loved them, still do! Now I’m playing with 4.25 high bac and I like them.

The key is to find the feather that gives you the best arrow flight in all hunting conditions with your broadheads. Wet, wind, etc. This can only be found by testing and personal experience.

So my advise if your not yet experienced in tuning and building arrows I would go with big feathers. Once you are at a point where you want to play with arrows, foc, testing etc then play away and find what you like best.

The best feather is the one you get the best flight from with broadheads. Until you test and find that lean to the bigger feather side of the options.

[Ralph]

#60446

My thinkin is like above only I’m also thinkin that when you’re beginning you need to shoot arrows with enough feathers on them that through the eons have been proven to be stable, such as 5″ or perhaps larger. That way when you have bobbles you can be concentrating on form and bow tuning to correct them and not be worrying so much about the arrow.

After all that is perfected (best of luck on that:D) then is when one can start “playing”:D or trying to achieve the max. JMHO

Ralph

[fishon]

#60565

Thank you for the input, and the referral to the Dr.’s forum. Right now I am like a sponge absorbing all the information I can. My arrow’s fly well and I have good consistency with accuracy and group’s (field points)so I will stick with 5″ for now. The true test will come when I try my broad heads, which are single bevel (just by chance) as I was not aware of the reports and testing of single bevel when I purchased them.

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