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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: GWhitworth on April 19, 2009, 02:54:00 PM
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Do Flu-Flu have 3 or 4 feathers. I will be making some for the 1st time.
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most of then can have only 4.. but some make them with 6
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I make mine with 3. I make em 4.25" long and I get 2 out of one uncut feather.
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I make mine two ways, Take a full feather and cut it into 4 or 4 1/2 inch fletchings and use my tool to but on Six fletchings. But the best way is to take a full feather and do a spiral fletching. THe spiral stops faster, shoots better but is more noisy.
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I'll second the spiral/wrapped feather. A little tricky till ya get it to stay put but stops an arrow fast.
... mike ...
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Guru did a "how to" on spiral flu flu's on the How to forum. i've used it and it was pretty fast & easy.
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1 full length spiral.
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I use 4-90 fletch on mine.
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I like 4
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I use 2 - 4" flu-flu to hunt with and 1/2 full lenght, spiral for targets.
My theory is; I want the arrow to reach a squirrel, ground hog, chipmunk quickly, then stop short of normal distance...my thoughts
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A Flu-Flu can have as many feathers, or as few as you would like. Really it depends on what you want the flu-flu arrow to do.
Our Annual Golf Shoot is coming up here next weekend half the fun of the golf shoot is making arrows. Got flu-flu's for longer shots and some for shorter shots.
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I prefer a single spiral flu flu also. For the shooting I do it's perfect. You can always cut down the profile to increase the distance.
If you use fletch tape they are very easy to make. On some primitive flu flus I just wrap the rear, spiral the feather around the shaft and wrap the forward end, no glue or tape used.
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I'm sure you've figured it out by now, Glen. A flu-flu can have whatever you want on it. A six-fletch stops sooner than a four-fletch (equal sized feathers). A longer feather stops sooner than a shorter one (holds for both length and height). Spirals generally stop sooner than traditional fletches. You can also add about two or three turns of a spiral between the nock and normal 3-fletched arrows. They all work. Now you can make up a whole of bunch of flu-flu's and see which you like best!!