fletching arrows

[bigwood95]

Hi gang. I'm trying my hand at arrow fletching. I'm useing a helicdal RW natural turkey feather, everything looks good and the feathers are staying put, but after shooting the arrows only a couple of times, the bottom feathers are looking realy beat up.
 I'm shooting a 76# fred bear recurve with a raised shelf.
 I don't have a lot of expierience with traditional equipment, so I don't know if its the feathers the helical fletch or the raised shelf.
 I've put a couple of questions up here before and you guys have been a great help to the newbe
 Thanks.

[JamesKerr]

Can you post some pictures of how your rest is setup on your bow and of the fletching of your arrows.

[Overspined]

The raised shelf is likely the issue.  Feathers don't typically wear out for me after a ton of shooting off a leather shelf.

[see]

Check the height of your nocking point.

[The Whittler]

Try with cock feather in towards the riser.

[lpcjon2]

Whats the shelf material and side plate made of?

[Scattergun2570]

Originally posted by bigwood95:
Hi gang. I'm trying my hand at arrow fletching. I'm useing a helicdal RW natural turkey feather, everything looks good and the feathers are staying put, but after shooting the arrows only a couple of times, the bottom feathers are looking realy beat up.
 I'm shooting a 76# fred bear recurve with a raised shelf.
 I don't have a lot of expierience with traditional equipment, so I don't know if its the feathers the helical fletch or the raised shelf.
 I've put a couple of questions up here before and you guys have been a great help to the newbe
 Thanks.

Had the same issue recently..nocking point was too low.