What's your favorite feather cut/shape?

[chad graham]

5" shield

[sleepingbear]

5" parabolic

[snag]

4-4" shield  

Gottabow, I like to place the fletching about 1" from the groove in the nock. This allows me to be able to at full draw have the point of the feather touch my nose as another anchor pt.

[amicus]

4" low profile nanners. Very quite.

[K. Mogensen]

Awesome pics guys.

Quick question for all you nana lovers, what do you like about them? The shape, or do they fly better/quieter? Just curious is all.

[Dave Bulla]

I voted "other".

I used to use fletch exactly like what Guru showed and still do sometimes but to me that shape is not a true shield nor is it a Pope & Young either.  Mainly due to the curve in the back edge.  Shield is different and in P&Y it's not there at all.

For the last few years I'm mostly going with my own twist on a banana fletch.  Here's a picture of it.  I was going for a look similar to a chestnut oak leaf.  Feather burners sure are a versatile tool eh?

 

Interestingly, this shape does NOT whistle like many banana cuts do.

[Arrow4Christ]

My favorite for off-the-shelf is 3 5.5" Bananas with 4 4" Shields not far behind. I have some of each in my quiver. I don't have noise issues with either.

Craig

[K. Mogensen]

Dave, those are COOL!  

[Ike 403]

I voted shield, but I've never really used any thing else...  :rolleyes:

[seabound]

low-pro banana's all the way. standard 3x120º

[crossstickspro]

I voted other, because I use a 5.5 bananna feather chopper, but I cut my full length feathers down to the best usable 10in then in half. Next i use a "tomahawk" to trim them down to a lower profile....if im in a hurry to flech some arrows then I use 5in shield.......

[highelk]

[RRock]

Traditional, but I cut off the tip to get rid of the whistle.

[Steve Clandinin]

51/4-51/2" Traditional shield I burn myself,seams to stabalize anything.I'm half deaf so it doesn't make any noise at all !

[30coupe]

I like 5" shield, yellow, white or pink. They look good. I see them in flight, and since I am kinda deaf like Steve, they are very quiet. None of the deer I have shot complained about the noise either!

[Chuck Hoopes]

5 1/2" Floresent Chartruese Bannana Cut-- I like to see my arrows fly so I can root for them.  Also provides better feed back training as the trajectory is more clearly visible.  One of the joys of trad. archery is actually seeing the arrow cut thru the air-- anyway you can enhance the view is a good thing  IMO.

[term]

Banana and t-hawk

[Tree Killer]

I use a 5.5" Swift

[Guru]

Yes Dave, Feather burners are cool....that's how I got the one's you saw...

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I was looking for something low profile and "different"...

Haven't noticed any extra noise either with the sharp back end...

[Chortdraw]

I prefer the 4" shields all white but also shoot 4" parabolic. The ones I like the most are the ones that go where I am aiming.