Outdoor fletching help!

Depends on what type of vanes you’re planning on using and if your doing a four or three fletch.
I prefer a 2 degree with a four fletch.

I am planning on running a 3 fletch with Flex Fletch 187 vanes.

Outdoor I am shooting 50m. I shoot the Bohning Air vanes, of course I do....lol I use as much left (I am right handed) offset as I can and still have good contact for gluing them on. I have some noise in flight sometimes if it's windy but my VAPs track very well.

3deg offset with three 2" TAC Vanes

Depends on the draw weight but unless it is really light use helical as much as possible and get good contact with the arrow. If low draw weight go with straight at about 3-5 degrees which is about as much as possible depending on the shaft size. You want as much as possible except for very low draw weight where you don’t want to slow the arrow too much at distance.


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lcaillo said:

Depends on the draw weight but unless it is really light use helical as much as possible and get good contact with the arrow. If low draw weight go with straight at about 3-5 degrees which is about as much as possible depending on the shaft size. You want as much as possible except for very low draw weight where you don’t want to slow the arrow too much at distance.


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Im going to be shooting a 52lb bow with easton axis 4mm arrows, is that considered low or high poundage for outdoor?

bowman2 said:

Im going to be shooting a 52lb bow with easton axis 4mm arrows, is that considered low or high poundage for outdoor?

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I was floating around that very number and I actually settled at 49lbs. Holding steady on the last arrow is much more important than speed. If the spine is good for the draw weight and you like how it shoots go for it.

In general, it's going to depend on the shaft diameter and vane length as to what you'll be able to get to fit with a straight clamp and still get good base contact. There is often the concern for "too much," and dropping off speeds, but if you are shooting known 3D or FITA events where distance is consistent, you simply adjust your sight for any "loss" in speed.

Unfortunately, this is one of those times where the only way to get the best answer is to do a little experimentation for yourself; try a couple different configurations and shoot them A LOT and track score differences.

I mainly shoot outdoor 50m and I use the Bohning Air Vane.

It looks good to me and has slightly less wind drift in windy conditions compared to the old Bohning X-Vanes (1.75") that I used to have on my arrows. They are straight fletched with 3 vanes on each arrow.