Anyone shoot arrows with heavy helical ?

[Cody Roiter]

Hello Guys.. Do any of you shoot arrows with a lot of helical in the feather if you know what I mean.. If any on has photo's of there arrows with lots of helical could you post some photos for me.. If so that would be great..

Thanks Guys,

Cody

[Al Kidner]

G'day Cody,

I do mate. Do a search on some of my arrows and you'll see. I'm currently away from my laptop, but if you like I can post some up later?

The more helical the better IMHO. I just lower the height of the fletch some.


ak.

[GMMAT]

Here's mine....I do them on my Bitz.  I put as much as I can on them.

 

 

 

[JRY309]

I shoot mine with as much helical as the clamp puts on the feather.

[blind one]

As much as I can get with my Bitz   :D   ...Roy

 

[Cody Roiter]

Thanks Guys,

Cody

[Zradix]

I use as much as possible with my old jo jan.
it slows the arrow a bit but I find it more forgiving.

[Zradix]

here they are.. nothin fancy but they work...

[longbowben]

[freefeet]

I use 3 inch a&a fletch with the bitz jig left winged as far as it'll go.  If you're having probs getting it to hold the fletching in place properly while the glue sets, switch to fletching tape, problem solved.

[Cody Roiter]

Nice arrows guys..............

Cody

[reddogge]

The determining factor on most jigs is getting the feather to lie flat at the back and the front.  If you offset it too much they don't lie right and there isn't enough feather base to grab the shaft.

[Raminshooter]

Cody,

Keep something in mind with regard to heavy helical:  if you bare shaft tune your bow and get your bare shafts shooting close to perfect with out fletching you can get away with a much lower profile feather.  With a high profile, the more radical helical slows the arrow down sooner so keep that in mind.  If you bare shaft tune a milder helical works great and provides just the right amount of stability without "dragging" your arrow down too much.  Have fun whatever you do!

As far as my Jo jan will go with tapered wood shafts and 5.5" feathers out of my Hills.  It gives me a wider spine range of what hits the mark for me.  Only 10 pounds under spine and 25 pounds over spine won't shoot for me out to thirty five yards, most of the time. I keep my arrows to the shortest possible length, that is broadheads touch my finger, and blunts are cut net.

[Bjorn]

Just enough to get them spinning, more and they can pick up noise and lose energy.

[Plug]

Originally posted by reddogge:
The determining factor on most jigs is getting the feather to lie flat at the back and the front.  If you offset it too much they don't lie right and there isn't enough feather base to grab the shaft.

Don't put the feather in the clamp with the quill tight against the edge of the clamp.  Leave about an 1/8" gap and the quill will sit better along the shaft.

[Johnny Reb]

Wundered about the rate of twist myself, but I go as far as my old Jo-Jan will let me,  Figured that the more twist the better it would stabilize.