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Offline bow101

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Installing Fletching
« on: December 21, 2015, 05:52:01 pm »
How far do you attach the fletching from the nock  1/2"     -   3/4"....?
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Installing Fletching
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2015, 05:58:53 pm »
bout an inch from the bottom of the nock......
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Offline Knoll

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Re: Installing Fletching
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2015, 12:04:15 am »
Or teeny bit further down if ya tie on one of those tracer feathers Bill uses.   8)
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Re: Installing Fletching
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2015, 01:16:57 am »
Quote from: Danzn Bar on December 21, 2015, 05:58:53 pm
bout an inch from the bottom of the nock......
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Re: Installing Fletching
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2015, 12:56:06 pm »
Far enough so the back edge of the feather doesn't get mixed up with fingers drawing the arrow.
Fletching with a trailing edge gets put further forward than something like a shield or parabolic shape, which don't have a trailing edge.

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