Do you shoot right or left fletch?

[xcutter]

I always put a mark on an unfletched arrow and shoot at 5 yards and see which direction the arrow naturally wants to rotate. Every bow I've ever shot the arrows rotate left so I fletch arrows with a left offset of 1 to 2 degrees. I'm a RH shooter.

 

[TheTone]

Right, mainly because the first arrows I ever bought were right and I’ve stuck with it. Never messed around trying differently

 

[GatorGar247]

I shoot left because my bow clocks left.. no reason to fight it.. It might not matter but I've watched slo mo video of the arrow changing direction because it starts left and is fletched right..

 

[LostArra]

I shoot feathers and back when I first started fletching my arrows for longbow and recurve it was tough to find right wing feathers so my Bitz jig set up and all my feathers are LW. Just never changed.

Someone told me that turkey farms clipped the right wing feathers so after slaughter there were a bunch of left wing feathers for archery use. Since beer was involved in this discussion I cannot take it as truth.

 

[jedm]

Interesting info here. Thank you to everyone for the inputs.

 

[5 shot group]

My arrow spins right, so I fletch right offset.

When my arrow spun left, I fletched left offset.

 

[cuttiebrownbow]

I have yet to see proof that either way makes a difference, no matter how your arrow is clocking off the string.

I shoot right but I guess I would shoot left as well if I wanted.

To me it’s more of a solution in search of a problem. I’m pretty exact with my arrow set ups and my tune but, I just can’t see how this would help or hurt.

I will say I use to shoot left offset, didn’t even know what that was at that point in my archery knowledge, and my field points would loosen much quicker and it was a bit annoying.


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[justin davis]

I have yet to see proof that either way makes a difference, no matter how your arrow is clocking off the string.

I shoot right but I guess I would shoot left as well if I wanted.

To me it’s more of a solution in search of a problem. I’m pretty exact with my arrow set ups and my tune but, I just can’t see how this would help or hurt.

I will say I use to shoot left offset, didn’t even know what that was at that point in my archery knowledge, and my field points would loosen much quicker and it was a bit annoying.


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Yea I’m not sure it makes a huge difference on accuracy to fletch with with your natural arrow spin.. but if you think about it. It might. If the arrow wants to spin a certain way and you allow it to verse fight it and make it spin the other way. Accuracy might be a hair better

 

[5 shot group]

I'm surprised there isn't a YouTube video of somebody with a hooter shooter doing this test

 

[RaisingKane]

My bow naturally shoots left so I 3 fletch left with the EZ Fletch. Works great with IW broadheads.

 

[MadMarkie]

Bare shafts from my bow spin CCW, so I picked a Left helical MiniMax when I bought it a few weeks back. I don't notice any difference between the reworked arrows and the Right twist Blazers that were on them, but it made sense to go Left since I was getting a jig anyhow.

 

[MadMarkie]

This video helped convince me... the slow motion actually catches the arrow starting to spin one way then switching.... seems inefficient to me.

 

[Mighty Mouse]

This video helped convince me... the slow motion actually catches the arrow starting to spin one way then switching.... seems inefficient to me.

Rotation reversal definitely can happen. Here's another video demonstrating it:

The question is, does it matter? My opinion is that fletching direction relative to natural rotation direction has negligible practical effect.

FWIW, John Stallone did some testing that showed a minor increase in downrange speed (2-5 fps at 80 yds) when his arrow was fletched to complement natural rotation (left/CCW in his case).

 

[cuttiebrownbow]

Yea I’m not sure it makes a huge difference on accuracy to fletch with with your natural arrow spin.. but if you think about it. It might. If the arrow wants to spin a certain way and you allow it to verse fight it and make it spin the other way. Accuracy might be a hair better

I would say while it might have some minor effects but it would be so insignificant that even a hooter shooter wouldn’t be able to pick up the difference at any distance.

Edit: is see above that speed had a slight variance between the two. I would like to see that repeated inside without wind, etc. to see if the results are the same.


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[gelton]

Left for me

 

[Sonoman]

I've been fletching right since day one. I also switched to feathers a few years ago. Like the way they perform for me.

 

[mfllood3800]

On all my target bows I clock the arrows and follow that rotation for fletching, which is always left hand rotation. I especially want my indoor Vegas vanes set up to go to work quickly so I I almost always fletch left. I shoot Mathews for comps and Pse for hunting. My indoor 3 spot and 5 spot comp bows are all a strong helical left. My indoor 3D is a a generous left off set-3 degrees I guess.

My hunt set up is always right fletch, 2 degree offset. Just so nothing twists out in target. I use offset to maintain as much speed as possible down range.

 

[Billy Goat]

I'm still wondering, if the point to fletching is to create drag on the end of the arrow, wouldn't we be better to fletch counter to the way the arrow wants to rotate?


I mean, ideally the fletching is there to fix our screw ups, that's why we tune with bareshafts. So the idea is that drag fixes our screw ups.


Wouldn't counter to the natural rotation produce more drag at launch? Correcting the arrow?


I fletch for the direction my arrow spins, but this is something I have been pondering.


I think it's something that would show up less with a shooting machine, more with an actual shooter that can have flaws.

It's like using a heavier helical.


Not saying I'm right, just thoughts for pondering.

 

[justin davis]

I'm still wondering, if the point to fletching is to create drag on the end of the arrow, wouldn't we be better to fletch counter to the way the arrow wants to rotate?


I mean, ideally the fletching is there to fix our screw ups, that's why we tune with bareshafts. So the idea is that drag fixes our screw ups.


Wouldn't counter to the natural rotation produce more drag at launch? Correcting the arrow?


I fletch for the direction my arrow spins, but this is something I have been pondering.


I think it's something that would show up less with a shooting machine, more with an actual shooter that can have flaws.

It's like using a heavier helical.


Not saying I'm right, just thoughts for pondering.

That’s interesting thought. I wonder

 

[cuttiebrownbow]

I saw a post on archery talk the other day where a guy shot left, right and straight fletchings. His arrow clocked left naturally. Order of accuracy for him was 1. Right 2. Straight 3. Left

Obviously, there is human error involved but interesting results for him. Might be something to try and repeat.

If I were to do this experiment I would use my set up with my broadheads just to see the results as that is ultimately going to show the most forgiving set up imo.


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