Speaking of bareshaft tuning...

[Billy Goat]

Has anyone shot barefletched and noted the direction of spin. I was told to try this and it seems to be bow specific. I have one that is shooting a bareshaft in a counter clockwise rotation pretty quickly. So I fletched those with a left offset. My target bow is hardly putting any spin on the bareshaft so I left those as a right offset.

Seems determining the way the arrow wants to spin, then Fletch for that rotation would make for way better flight. Just curious if others have played with this.

 

[nphunter]

Has anyone shot barefletched and noted the direction of spin. I was told to try this and it seems to be bow specific. I have one that is shooting a bareshaft in a counter clockwise rotation pretty quickly. So I fletched those with a left offset. My target bow is hardly putting any spin on the bareshaft so I left those as a right offset.

Seems determining the way the arrow wants to spin, then Fletch for that rotation would make for way better flight. Just curious if others have played with this.

Randy Ulmer does it this way. Personally I think the difference would be negligible at best because a helical or offset get the arrow spinning so fast. Just the movement of the string would be enough to get the arrow starting whichever direction it is fletched.

If you have both clamps it probably doesn’t matter. Defiantly not something I’d switch to a left clamp for. I would love to see you shoot all 12 shafts to confirm they all spin CCW.

As far as accuracy I think tune has more to do with it than arrows. This is my last group at 40 yards after shooting Broadheads for about 15 sets yesterday morning. This is with two different vane configurations and I was pretty fatigued too. Even trying to decide on something as significant as vanes your really have to extend out to see much. I can only shoot 40 yards here and I really can’t see much difference at all in 4 or 6 vanes. I would imagine right or left helical would be even harder to see differences in.

 

[Topo_trekker]

If you have nock sets tied in within your d loop you can counteract.


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[Billy Goat]

Rotation was plenty evident in one bow within 5 feet. I was quite surprised how fast the spin was imparted. I haven't messed with it much. But the way I'm looking at it the less steer I need on the back of the shaft the better.

I was curious if it was just an arrow thing. Started with 3, thinking they might go different directions. They were consistent. Ended up trying it with 2 dozen of the same arrows to confirm. I could see some difference in the amount of rotation but overall it was pretty uniform.

Curious how you change the rotation with tied in knocks? I have tied in knocks. Change the side of the final knot?

If you have nock sets tied in within your d loop you can counteract.


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[Topo_trekker]

Sorry not change rotation, just stop it from spinning as much, widens dloop. The faster a bow shoots, the more it will spin bare shaft and steeper angle not as efficient at full draw. All reasons target bow isn’t noticeable.

If you want to change arrow clocking rotation it’s dictated by direction your string is twisted. Right twist, clocks left, and vice versa. Slack in the string at full draw imparts a tiny rotation on nock when released.

It makes sense why you’d want it go left, I agree, just make sure your broadhead doesn’t want to go right.


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[doverpack12]

I’m trying it out right now. 6 different van combos and some left helical because my bareshafts rotate left on the shot as well. I either started a thread or posted on one awhile back about it and most members here didn’t have much motivation to change what is working for them. I’m too curious and think I had too much fletching control last year opening groups up at distance so that is my motivation to try a change.

 

[NYSKIER]

Lots of threads on here about this very topic it's like opening a can of worms everyone is going to tell you something different you just have to go with what feels best to you and what will give you the most confidence