Left wing vs Right wing

[Dry Creek]

Thanks guys!
I thought it would interesting to see what was the most popular. I started using left wing back in the 80's for reasons unknown and never looked back!

Craig

[dbd870]

Right, because that's what the Bitz I bought had!

[lt-m-grow]

Poll results surprised me.   Right down the middle.  Damn near the flip-of-a-coin.

My left wing and right wing Jo-Jans are set up the same as precisely as I can measure them.  I made a four fletch arrow with two left wings and two right wings.  I wanted to have an arrow that i could hand people and pull a little spoof on them. The spoof was on me, I never tested it, when I handed my joke arrow to one of my friends, the dang thing flew just like the rest, it just didn't rotate on its way to the target.

[David Mitchell]

I am so conservative I won't even shoot left wing feathers.    :rolleyes:

So would a centrist shoot tail feather then?

[alex321]

I read on here, I think, that if you are right handed and shooting off-hand then one should use LW feathers to stop them digging into the hand

With some bows and some shooters that like to have the arrow ride the finger, the quill can rough up the finger a bit when shooting right wing three fletch out of a right hand bow.  However, with the Jo-Jan fletching jigs, I find that with four fletch there is a better feather position with right wing out of a right hand bow and left wing out of left hand bow as far as finger wear is concerned.

[ScottinPA]

Fletch with RW since I started building my own 20+ years ago.  I recently bought a LW clamp and am going to try them as I get excessive wear on the outside of my shelf.  Posted about it a few years ago on here and that was the consensus to the problem.  I'm just a little slow in making the change to prove it.

[FlintNSteel]

I have shot left wing since I started almost 5 decades ago.  I bought a multi-fletcher with left-wing helical clamps, so have always used left.

Personally, I don't think it matters though.

I gave someone a Slimline 58" 54# recurve, he gave it back to me.  I went out to tune it a little. I had a mix of 8 arrows, some right and some left. That bow didn't care it damaged four of those aluminum arrows packing them together too tight.

[flyguysc]

Makes no different it's in your head and form.