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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: bow101 on December 21, 2015, 05:52:01 pm

Title: Installing Fletching
Post by: bow101 on December 21, 2015, 05:52:01 pm

How far do you attach the fletching from the nock  1/2"     -   3/4"....?

Title: Re: Installing Fletching
Post by: Danzn Bar on December 21, 2015, 05:58:53 pm

bout an inch from the bottom of the nock......
DBar

Title: Re: Installing Fletching
Post by: Knoll 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)

Title: Re: Installing Fletching
Post by: DC 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......
DBar

+1

Title: Re: Installing Fletching
Post by: Grasshopper Mouse 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.

Guy