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Author Topic: 3 fletch 5.5" highback shields on MFX shafts?  (Read 430 times)

Offline Morning Star

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3 fletch 5.5" highback shields on MFX shafts?
« on: July 15, 2008, 12:37:00 PM »
Anyone make this work?
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Offline Kevin L.

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Re: 3 fletch 5.5" highback shields on MFX shafts?
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2008, 12:44:00 PM »
I haven't tried that combo, but I'm fletching some Cabela's Stalker Xtremes up with RH 5.5" banana-cut right now. Hope they fly good, gonna just do 3 for the moment.
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Re: 3 fletch 5.5" highback shields on MFX shafts?
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2008, 12:47:00 PM »
On a bitzenburg jig I've fletched many dozen MFX's with 5.5 shields in both left and right helical.  Should work on other jigs just as well, I just use bitzenburgs myself. dino
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Re: 3 fletch 5.5" highback shields on MFX shafts?
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2008, 12:56:00 PM »
I use 5.75" "MaxiFletch" Parabolics in a 3-Fletch configuration with a decent bit of helical.  Bitz handles them nicely.  I need as much stabilization as I can get.

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Re: 3 fletch 5.5" highback shields on MFX shafts?
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2008, 12:59:00 PM »
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 I need as much stabilization as I can get.
You got a hatchet on the end of that arrow Bob?   ;)

Thanks guys, I have a bitz myself.  Will be ordering some 5.5's
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Re: 3 fletch 5.5" highback shields on MFX shafts?
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2008, 01:03:00 PM »
M-Star:

Strange things happen when you pull a bow this far......

That is a 32" draw on a 56" bow......
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Re: 3 fletch 5.5" highback shields on MFX shafts?
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2008, 01:15:00 PM »
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That is a 32" draw on a 56" bow......  
:saywhat:  

So the fletching must be there to slow the arrow down after it leaves the animal.  :D
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