I made up some for an upcoming 3D shoot. I shot one into the air at a steep angle and that arrow went about 150ft before it came down! I thought they were suppose to shorten the flight of the arrow more than that?!

Considering that your arrow probably would have gone 200 yards with conventional fletchings, I think ya done good!

Killdeer~ It's all a matter of perspective.  

150ft is only 50yards that's pretty good. If you don't want them to travel as far add weight to the arrow.

If you  want to stop an arrow  fast with a flu flu try spiral wrapped flu flu to make one you need to glue full legnth feathers to shaft  to start glue feather on the back end for approx 3/4 ": let dry then add glue to remaining feather base and wrap around shaft  feather this type of flu flu stops my arrows twice as fast as reg 4 fletch full profile feathers .    

Gordon is spot-on, the spiral wrap is darn near like a dragster's chute.

One can always make a six-fletch "feather-duster" too. Those go fairly short and leave a turkey almost nekkid LOL!

yep what gordon said. there's a how to by guru in the how to forum. i would post a link but i don't know how.

My buddy and I were shooting some 4-4.5 flu flu's on a 100 yd rifle range to see how far they would go.And we could get maybe 60-70 yds at the most.

Killie, didn't look at that way...

Gordon, I'll try the spirals too.

Thanks!

Yep, 50 - 70 yards has been my experience with 500-550 gr. arrows and 50-60# bows.

Lighter arrows will stop faster...less momentum....made flu flus for my daughter out of 1816s and they would nearly stop in midair 20 yds out.

If lighter arrows stop faster how come flight shooters shoot such light arrows? Heavier arrows are slower but retain more momentum. There is a balance. Flight shooters try to find that balance to get most distance. You are past that point so adding weight would cause your arrow to stop faster.

Jesse,

Most flight shooters don't shoot flu flus.  With a flu flu as the thread is about that, the light arrow will stop much faster.

Mike

My 4" 6 fletch shot out of my 65# Centaur at a steep angle are over 100 yards.  When shooting at clay pigeons, they usually make it about 75 yards.

I just started a thread on flu-flu's and put down some thoughts on what effects their performance.  Won't get into it all here again but the thread is called:

"Thoughts on flu-flu's, science and opinion..."

More feathers, less distance, I use 6 fletch.