What decides which way an arrow is fletched. Is it the way the bow naturally throws it, if you shoot right handed or left? I am about to fletch my fist arrows and have a right and left helical clamp.
banded_mallard
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I don't care about why my arrows spin one way or the other.... I already have a million bits of otherwise useless information floating around in my bordering on OCD brain.
I just shoot a bare shaft with an index mark and see which way they want to spin naturally.... then build my arrows to best support that. In other words, I want to support what the bow wants to do naturally.
I'm aware that folks have done experiments with this and all data seems to lead us to believe that it doesn't matter, and the vanes will eventually spin the arrow in the direction they want and the arrows will still hit in the same(ish) spot. Years ago I fletched every thing with Right twist and was happy.... I was happy with the malarky that an old timer at the club told me "Right handed shooters shoot a Right twist and Left handed shooters shoot a Left twist". It was simple and seemed like a logical "rule"... Now that I know my bows all naturally want to twist Left, I can't convince myself that "it doesn't matter". (See OCD comment above)
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