Fletching Weight

[NEO_bowhunter]

Not sure if I'm in the right part of our forum but here we go.. I recently bought some Bohning Blazer vanes to re-fletch some compound bow arrows and crossbow bolts. I weighed all the fletches. Sorted them by weight. Is it important to keep the same weight fletches together or am I just being too anal about weight ?? I've got 5 @ 6.7 grains, 9 @ 6.8 grains, 14 @ 6.9 grains, 7 @ 7.0 grains, 1 @ 7.1 grains, and 1 @ 7.2 grains. Just wondering if its really important to keep the fletching weight the same when fletching an arrow. Thank you for any advice you can give me on this subject.

Thanks you.. Van

 

[Mighty Mouse]

am I just being too anal about weight ??

Yes

 

[DonC1]

If you are going to the extremes of weighing individual vanes you also need to be able to control the exact amount of glue used to attach them, and even then, unless your shafts are perfectly spine and weight matched, the nocks, inserts, and points or broadheads weigh exactly the same, and they won’t, you are wasting your time.
Try to keep your total finished arrow weights within 4 grains of each other using any combination of components you have, and your arrows will be more accurate than most any factory built arrow you could possibly buy.
The difference between .001 and .003 shaft straightness is not a factor in hunting arrows, all but the very best archers will never be able to distinguish the difference, everything else being the same.

Imo, you would be better served in making sure your bow is perfectly tuned and dedicating your time to practice and perfecting your form than anything else you can do.

 

[Beendare]

Yes

Yep.

its funny how guys can get sidetracked and focus on something totally insignificant...but then screw on a mech head without doing any BH tuning.

 

[NEO_bowhunter]

Ok. thanks for the advice everyone.