single bevel braodheads, right or left?

[tnhornhter1099]

I am shooting single bevel broad heads,  I shoot left wing feathers, does it really matter if the broad head is right or left and if so Why?

[Vml]

Yes, the forces are working against each other. Right wing feather, right bevel and vice versa

[Alexander Traditional]

Some people say it doesn't make much difference,but I always match the fletch to the bevel.

[TradBrewSC]

Yes match with the wing. It will make a difference on HP bows

[Mike Bolin]

I have always shot right wing feathers so I shoot a right bevel head. You want to match them for optimum performance/penetration.

When the original Grizzlies were only right wing, I made left wingers from blank Hills, so I could shoot left wing feathers.  Shooting with the arrow riding on my finger occasionally nabbed my finger with the feather.   Some of us here have mixed them back and forth.  On whitetail deer, we see very little, if any, difference for those that mix and match.  On larger tougher game, I would match rotations.

[KentuckyTJ]

Shot my right bevel grizzly into a box of foam. Drew a straight black line on shaft beforehand so you could watch it turn back out of the path it went in on.  I wouldn't want the shaft to have to change rotation directions when it hit something, that would be counter productive.

   

[Steve O]

Match the bevel with the fletch. Even if it took away 1% of the single bevel advantage, why give up any?  It is simple enough to do it right.

[TSHOOTER]

I may be the only one but I don't see a difference.  The arrow is rotating very slowly in relation to the impact force driving forward.  A double bevel head stops and goes straight in.  I don't think reversing from a few revolutions per second is  going to limit penetration measurably.  I've killed deer with left bevel grizzly heads with both right wing helical and left wing helical and I've had only complete pass throughs on whitetails.

We have the same results, but what is even far worse.  i have found that i myself personally, get more blood on the ground quicker when I serrate single bevel heads from the bevel side angled forward towards the flat. With a pure toothed edge, provided by the jutting teeth corners of a safety edged file, I get tiny forward pointing cutting hooks.  Oh, I know just terrible, but those deer have been bleeding fast and going down hard.   The Elburgs showed me the serrating options from the flat to the bevel, I disagree with that as it puts that leading edge of the serration cut on the nonworking side of the edge.   Sure KME works  great,  A file with a safety edge carries along on the hunt easier, I want to be able to trust my field sharpening, this works for me.  For myself I have been matching rotation since the first Grizzlies came out, i argued with my buddy about his left wing preference using right wing Grizzlies on deer, but it was a lost argument because he was getting pass throughs and short blood trails.   Deer ain't cape buffalo, we don't have many of them around here..