When my son and I owned Screaming Eagle, we did an experiment on our shooting range. We made up two dozen arrows with Fletchtite cement and two dozen with Fletchtape. We let our customers shoot the heck out of them. Almost all the ones made with glue lost feathers. The ones we did with the tape lost NONE!
Up to that point, I had refused to use the tape. Now, that is all I use and it is SOOOO much faster!
To me, the distance from the nock base to the feather is there to clear my fingers. I don't want my fingers to hit the feathers and make noise when I am nocking an arrow. I just measured one of my arrows and the distance between nock base and feather is 5/8 inch.
Too Short