What is everybody using?
Right wing, left wing or both?
I once saw a bunch of left wings that, on the surface, appeared OK, but just weren't all there, and they NEVER flew the same as the others.
So I diverted my attention to right wings, and too, I found them to be pleasing, but with a few "fliers", just nowhere near as many as the left wings.
Then I tried straight (Independent) and found my place.
:bigsmyl:
I've shot both and have both in my quiver. I don't see any difference in flight and point of impacts are identical. I find that fletching right wing feathers are easier for me, so that is what I primarily use.
Rodd
Stared with LW long ago. Just never switched.
Deno
Same as deno. In years past LW were more readily available.
left for me. I shoot right handed but wish I had gotten right. wouldnt have to keep tightening my points all the time. since I have left jig and everything else though I'll just stay with it.
QuoteOriginally posted by BOHO:
left for me. I shoot right handed but wish I had gotten right. wouldnt have to keep tightening my points all the time.
Yes you would!!!!!
Bisch
I shoot both LW and RW,see no difference on well tuned arrows!
Like most I used primarily left wing because they were always available commercially. Now I use whatever I have available and it doesn't make a difference in my arrow flight. I use a JoJan straight Multifletch and just offset it one way or the other a little depending on left or right wing feathers.
The only thing left wing about me is my feathers!
I know lots of folks say that either is fine, but years ago when I started fletching my own arrows, the line of thought that it would be better for the arrow to start spinning away from my riser instead of in to it seemed to make sense. So being a lefty I've been using RW feathers ever since. I've saw so-mo video and the like and many folks who say it don't matter, and maybe it don't, but it makes me feel better about it anyhow, so I shoot RW to get spin away from my riser since Im a lefty.
And to add...I also like a pretty radical helical on my arrows. My Bitz is set for a goodly amount of helical and I like same for shooting broadheads to get quick stabilization if I happen to get the perfect shot on a windy day into a crosswind.
Left wing
why?
Because I was gifted a jojan with a leftwing clamp. If I had bought it myself I would have went right wing
I started using left wing in the early days, because "they" said that a right handed shooter should do this. Since then I have used right wing fletching with no noticeable difference in performance.
I fletch straight offset and have used both on the same arrow with no problems.
I have Bitz in R, L, and straight. I use the right almost exclusively, reason being, I want the arrow to spin just like a football when I throw it. If that ain't scientific enough for you, I'm afraid we can't be friends. (Just kidding)
Murray
Takes both wings to fly.
When I was a kid I had an Indian Archery lemonwood bow that got ignored totally in high school and college. Years later when getting back into it I decided to make my own arrows so went to an archery shop to buy feathers. The guy asked if I wanted left or right wing....I ask, "What's the difference?" the guy says left wing comes off the left wing of a turkey and right wing comes off the right wing of a turkey. I figure he had to be pulling my leg...."Yeah right!". Then he showed me the different curve in the feathers. By golly, learned something that day. :biglaugh:
I shoot left and right handed regularly. So when I go four fletch I put on two left wing feathers with my left wing jig and I put on two right wing feathers with my right wing jig.
I use both. Lefts on a 3 fletch and rights on a 4 fletch
Thanks guys!
I thought it would interesting to see what was the most popular. I started using left wing back in the 80's for reasons unknown and never looked back!
Craig
Right, because that's what the Bitz I bought had!
Poll results surprised me. Right down the middle. Damn near the flip-of-a-coin.
My left wing and right wing Jo-Jans are set up the same as precisely as I can measure them. I made a four fletch arrow with two left wings and two right wings. I wanted to have an arrow that i could hand people and pull a little spoof on them. The spoof was on me, I never tested it, when I handed my joke arrow to one of my friends, the dang thing flew just like the rest, it just didn't rotate on its way to the target.
I am so conservative I won't even shoot left wing feathers. :rolleyes:
So would a centrist shoot tail feather then?
I read on here, I think, that if you are right handed and shooting off-hand then one should use LW feathers to stop them digging into the hand
With some bows and some shooters that like to have the arrow ride the finger, the quill can rough up the finger a bit when shooting right wing three fletch out of a right hand bow. However, with the Jo-Jan fletching jigs, I find that with four fletch there is a better feather position with right wing out of a right hand bow and left wing out of left hand bow as far as finger wear is concerned.
Fletch with RW since I started building my own 20+ years ago. I recently bought a LW clamp and am going to try them as I get excessive wear on the outside of my shelf. Posted about it a few years ago on here and that was the consensus to the problem. I'm just a little slow in making the change to prove it.
I have shot left wing since I started almost 5 decades ago. I bought a multi-fletcher with left-wing helical clamps, so have always used left.
Personally, I don't think it matters though.
I gave someone a Slimline 58" 54# recurve, he gave it back to me. I went out to tune it a little. I had a mix of 8 arrows, some right and some left. That bow didn't care it damaged four of those aluminum arrows packing them together too tight.
Makes no different it's in your head and form.