Pope & Young Fletching

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I like the way this fletching looks and plan on using my burner to cut some.  

Do these type fletching tend to hit you in the face at full draw?

I don't like the hard face contact, I dont mind a little, would I be better off with a Sheild cut?  

These feathers are 5 1/4" long?

any thoughts and opinions are welcome.

I will get some pictures up tonight of the arrows.

[Bowmania]

I heard they make noise.  Sure look cool, though.

I'll be watching this thread, because I almost ordered some anyway.

Bowmania

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Noise isnt an issue. In fact I like noise, except while hunting.

I was thinking about making these arrows for targets only anyhow.  Thanks for the insight Todd    

I didnt even consider the noise factor!  

[Izzy]

They make a lot of noise, really cool ffffffffft! noise.

[Rick Butler]

Izzy's right, they're noisy but way cool!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Do they tickle your face any?

[Rick Butler]

Mine don't

[Easykeeper]

I've got a chopper in that shape.  I don't remember any tickle, but will never forget the noise.  Sounds like a flock of 'bills coming in on a still October morning...

[Zradix]

I like the look of them.

I didn't have any problem with a tickle.
I guess you can always fletch them up in a way so they don't bother you.

I just didn't like the noise in the woods.
I ended up trimming mine off like this....

 

It really helped with the noise. I thought they looked nice this way too.

[Grey Taylor]

Depending upon how long you make them, where they are positioned on the arrow, and what your draw check is, they may tickle or hit your face. I used them on one guy's arrows and he likes the way they look but due to a combination of all the above, one feather goes right in his nose at full draw. He says it's a little distracting.
Since you have a burner you can make them whatever length you want so don't think you're stuck with 5 1/4".

Guy

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Headed outside for a feather burning party.

I'll post pics when I am done.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Decided to go with a long, lean traditional cut.

 

I wanted 2 barred and one white, but was about 12 short on the barred and the full length whites I had about enough for 11. so I went with 2 whites and one barred trying to use up what I had.

 

After the scenting of the garage with the feather burner.

 

 

Now I need to taper and shoot.

[Shedrock]

Those look great. I have used the P&Y cut before, actually killed an elk, turkey, whitetail doe, and a bison with a dozen shafts fletched with that style. I never heard any noise from them, and niether did the above critters.

[ron w]

Looks good to me, I should be able to aim for those whites at the next 3-D shoot....lol!!!!!!         But I still won't hit them!!

[Shedrock]

Here are the ones I shot. I believe Rusty Izatt built these, (he is on this site), then gave them to Herb Meland. Herb gave them to me. I said those will look great on my wall. Herb told me to kill something with them, so I did.

Thanks to Rusty and Herb!!

Not trying to hijack your thread bud!

I found these to be quiet, and not hit my face at full draw. I like the P&Y fletching style.
 

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Great looking arrows Tracy!            ?

[Shedrock]

They look to be dyed red by Rusty. He did a great job.

You did a great job on yours as well!  

[ripforce56]

I bought a chopper that cuts Traditional, I thought about the Pope & Young may get that in the future too! here are some arrows I just did!

[adkmountainken]

AWESOME arrows!!!! Charlie do i recognize them feathers, maybe the "assistent"?

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Ken,

I have not prosessed the turkey feathers yet. I was going to make up some hunting arrows this fall with the "assitant" feathers.

I did however use a turkey secondary on one because I was short 1 feather, and I had a left wing secondary laying around.

I figured since these will be target arrows, I would just use up the accesories (ie feathers, tips and nocks)  I had laying around.

Most of the feathers you see are just natural barred feathers i ordered last fall from one of the retailers on this site. Problem was, they were only about 8.5 inches long and I could only get 1 fletch out of each.

The whites however, were all almost 12 inches long. I traded some sheild cuts for them. I dont know where he got them, but I would like to find out.

Tonight I will be cutting and tapering them to 29 3/4 iches long BOP.

remember that childrens bow I picked up last night?  It came with a free target. I will test shoot them into this target, so in essence I will be tesrting the arrows and target.  

That's a lot of variables, dont know if I can handle it    LOL.