After seeing the thread below and many times this question has been asked...between rain drops, took a few pics to demonstrate a simple point.
Right hand bow, cock feather in...notice the odd hen feather in the "up" positon.
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a281/sf1oak/001-1.jpg)
Right hand bow, LW feathers, cock feather out in the normal position...odd hen in the "up" position.
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a281/sf1oak/002.jpg)
Right hand bow, RW feathers, cock feather out, notice odd hen feather on bottom.
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a281/sf1oak/003.jpg)
Personally, I shoot LW and off my left hand Fedora, I shoot RW. Making sure the odd hen is in the up position seems to give me better clearance.
The arrows I made up a few years ago using RW, I turn cock feather in.
I was told by a pretty good source that odd feather in on carbon arrows only, wood and aluminum odd feather out, seems to work pretty good. personally I like to do odd feather into the corner where the riser and the shelf meet, seems to give the feather a little more room to clear, but whatever works by all means use it.
Mine look like your first pic
The reason I posted this because this question seems to come up quite a bit about cock feather in and why.
All I wanted to show is when you turn the cock feather in on RW feathers, its the same as using LW feathers and nock the arrow "normally". So why not use LW feathers?
I even fletched up some arrows for a guy using the TM receiver, which automatically places the feather in the up position...like a wheelie guy shooting through a TM style rest.
Don't care how you nock your arrows or what you shoot...just seems quite repetitive seeing the same questions appear so often.
Thanks for sharing the pics Joe, seeing the pics really clarifies things.
Joe you see people asking the same questions because they don't take the time to do a search on the subject.
It's still going to happen.
My arrows fly the same, cock feather in or out. I do shoot off a rest on my recurve.