cock feather in or out
In.
In.
Works both ways - I usually go in.
i 4 fletch so..........
In
Out!
Bisch
Up
IN
Either
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It is according to the Bow that I am shooting.
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In
I'm right handed, LW fletch, cock out, RW fletch cock in.
When you have well matched arrows it doesn't matter too much actually but I go by old convention and lay two hens flat to the sight window and one cock out (LW).
Kris
In
I don't fletch with a separate cock feather anymore. They are all the same but I do have an index on my nock so I nock the same everytime. I position so one feather is lined up with the crease of the shelf - does it make a difference - probably not but I am just anal enough to need the resemblence of repeatability.
QuoteOriginally posted by Pete McMiller:
I don't fletch with a separate cock feather anymore. They are all the same but I do have an index on my nock so I nock the same everytime. I position so one feather is lined up with the crease of the shelf - does it make a difference - probably not but I am just anal enough to need the resemblence of repeatability.
That is also what I do, lining the lower hen feather up with the crease in the shelf! The cock feather is out, but actually down a bit from straight out. I use RW feathers.
When I hunt, I line my broadheads up so that they are at a slight angle. That way when I draw with my bow canted, they are horizontal. Lots of times I have to turn my shaft on my nock to get this alignment, and my odd colored feather may be in any of the three positions, but one feather is always lined up with the crease of the shelf!
Bisch
I'm with Kris...right handed, with LW fletch, it's cock out, with RW fletch, it's cock in.
up.......
In
In
Cock feather down and out, where one hen feather runs thru the crease in the shelf.
Guess I'm the oddball - OUT
up, 12:00
out but not 90 degrees i use it as an anchor point
Out.
Out, and I leave a trough between the rest pad and the strike plate for the hen feather.
I am not sure what changed in recurves and longbows to cause guys to alter the cock feather position from where it had been set for so long.
4-fletch!
Carbon arrows in.
Wheels2 - probably the invention of slow-motion video. With a properly tuned/spined arrow there is really no fletch contact.