Will The Bananas Hit Low?

[Dick in Seattle]

maybe this will help relieve the brain cramp...

I just got up and that title, "Will the bananas hit too low",  hit my poor coffee starved brain and jiggled the memory of that old song, "Will the Spearmint Change Its Flavor on the Bedpost Over Night?"  If you remember the tune, try this:

If the feathers get too high,
Will the bananas hit too low?
If the feathers get too high?
Will the bananas hit too low?
Will they whistle while they travel?
Will they scare the deer away?
If the feathers get too high,
Will the bananas hit too low?

Sorry about that... I'm having a silly spell because I finished my first arrows yesterday.  I shaped high rounded feathers (not actually bananas) and they do whistle.   Kinda like it... Robin Hood shooting the proclamation out of the Sheriff of Nottingham's hand... whissh, thunk... gotta go get my feathered hat.

Okay... I'll go off and get my coffee now and return you to your regular programming....

Dick in Seattle

[Dick in Seattle]

Still haven't had my coffee (soon, soon, soon!) but I think I improved the effort while showering.  I now offer you:

"The Fletchers Song" or "The Banana Song"

(to the tune of “Does the Spearmint Change Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight”  … more or less…)


If my feathers get too high,
Will my bananas hit too low?
Will they travel much too slowly,
As they fly off from my bow?
Will they whistle as they travel?
Will they scare the game away?
If my feathers get too high,
Will I miss a deer today?

Alright, alright, I'm off for the coffee.   What can I say, 30 years of standup just won't go away...

Dick in Seattle

[NEB]

Here is my experience with them out of a 55# Quinn Stallion:  3-5.5" fly just like 3-5" out to about 35 yards, then they fall faster; 4-4" fly just like 3-5" out to infinity, only they appear to be more forgiving.  In my brief shooting of nanners I think they are more forgiving than other fletch shapes.  I don't hear any differnce with them, except some that I tried splicing - now those guys look great but sound like a rocket in the air!  They are my 3-D arrows, and I kind of like the fact that they scream!!

By the way, if you own a Lil Chopper, and wish to use up the entire full feather I have discovered something neat.  You can cut the 5.5" out of one end of the feather.  Then you tape a pop-sickle stick to the straight edge on the Chopper and it serves as a new straight edge that will cut 4" low profile nanners.  This works great as long as you are not anal about the feathers (i.e., you don't mind if some of them are not perfect) or as long as you don't use fletch tape (tape is picky about the quill size).

[JImmyDee]

Originally posted by Orion:
If one calculated the area of a standard size nanner, I bet it would be very close to, and perhaps even a bit less than, the area of a standard shield or parabolic cut feather; the high point is just in the middle rather than the back end, and it has two low points, each end.  Any mathemeticians out there care to take this one on?

I did the arithemtic and found that banannas had a bit more surface area than parabolics of the same height