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favorite fletch cut and colors

Started by moleman, December 09, 2012, 06:28:00 PM

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moleman

Fixin to build a couple doz. shafts within the next week or so and am looking for some fresh ideas before i start.

Jwilliam


ti-guy

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Terry Lightle

5 1/2 inch shield natural barr or goose
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Sixgun

5" shield cut blue hens and a white cock feather fletched helical on a white stained crown.

Also thinking about 4" shield cut in blue alternating with a white in a 4 fletch.  

My son is a fan of blue and pink fletching, any size or configuration.

Ray
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Roger Norris

I like 5 1/2" high back parabolics, in red or chartruese.

I'm thinking about fletching some with banana cut...who sells those?
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5" Chartreuse parabolic cut with a matching cap wrap.

Orion

I use 5-inch shield cuts on all my arrows.  Three whites or three chartreuse on my practice arrows, three natural gray barreds or two natural gray barreds and one red barred feather on my hunting arrows.  White crown dips and nocks and red, silver and black cresting most of the time.

Bob B.

2, 5 inch yellow hens and 1, 5 inch yellow cock feather all shield cut.  Put on a tapered shaft with 9 inches of yellow dip with a yellow nirk nock.
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68"  Shrew Hill      49lbs@29
68"  Deathwish       51lbs@29
68"  Morning Star    55lbs@29
68"  Misty Dawn      55lbs@29

Alexander Traditional

I like 5" shield in yellow or orange barred. I like using them with the snake skin wraps from Onestringer. I also like the natural from magnus.

Sam McMichael

5" or 5.5" shield cut. Colors are generally selected by poundae. My 65# bows are mated with yellow fletch. My 55# bow is matched with black fletch, etc. This makes it fairly easy to grab the correct spined arrows for a given bow. Its not totally fool proof, though. One day I spent well over an hour tinkering with tuning to correct a sudden case of bad arrow flight. Then I finally realized I had gotten confused on my color scheme and had picked up the wrong arrows.
Sam

JAG

Low profile banana.  Whatever color I have the most of at the time.  Like the natural and brights.  I use 4 fletch, so some are multi colored, on river cane.
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moleman

Sam, great idea using a color code for different spines. For those with multiple bows, that would for sure simplify things.

lpcjon2

these are mine, I did them myself with a burner(possibilities are endless with a burner).


 

 
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kbaknife

I stood along side two steel grain bins that were only a few feet apart one time while other shooters were shooting their arrows between them.
I stood just AFTER the space between the grain bins so I was out of arrow flight path, yet still VERY close to them as they passed through.
I could hear the shield cut and parabolic cut arrow fletching coming BEFORE they got to the grain bins.
I had another shooter shoot my arrows with feathers burned that were tapered to each end with the widest portion right in the center of the fletch. Sort of like a parabolic, but more centered in width.
A lot like what Byron Ferguson shoots.
I couldn't even hear mine after they passed through the grain bins.
You couldn't give me shield cut feathers for free.
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When the last elk vanishes from the hills,
When the last buffalo falls on the plains,
I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
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Andy Cooper

QuoteOriginally posted by kbaknife:
I stood along side two steel grain bins that were only a few feet apart one time while other shooters were shooting their arrows between them.
I stood just AFTER the space between the grain bins so I was out of arrow flight path, yet still VERY close to them as they passed through.
I could hear the shield cut and parabolic cut arrow fletching coming BEFORE they got to the grain bins.
I had another shooter shoot my arrows with feathers burned that were tapered to each end with the widest portion right in the center of the fletch. Sort of like a parabolic, but more centered in width.
A lot like what Byron Ferguson shoots.
I couldn't even hear mine after they passed through the grain bins.
You couldn't give me shield cut feathers for free.
It seems to me some pics are needed!   :D
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wapitirod

Shield for the aesthetics and parabolic overall. I run a flourescent yellow or green cock feather and two white hens on all my arrows for visibility.
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Biathlonman

4-5" parabolics in white with a white nock.  Sometimes I do two white and two pink when I'm feeling frisky.  I like to run a 1" piece of reflective wrap around the middle of where the feather falls.  Usually white but occasionally orange on the wrap.

JamesKerr

I use 3 5" parabolics the two hen feather are white and the cock feather is pink. They're not the prettiest arrows but they are nearly impossible to lose. Oh and I fletch them on a reflective white wrap.
James Kerr

The Whittler

5" shield or parabolic, 3 white or 3 bright flo. yellow with white or flo. yellow wraps. I like to see a ball of white or flo. yellow all the way to the target or animal.


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