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Author Topic: What's your favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows?  (Read 449 times)

Offline eflanders

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I am curious what is everyone's favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows  and   why?

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I use four four inch shield cut..works out good for my anchor (feather to nose) and gives me sixteen inches of feather for steering big heads..seems a little more forgiving and just looks cool.
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Offline Leland

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Five inch shield cut.Might be to much feather,but I just like the looks of them.
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5 inch shield. Shields because I use the back of the feather on my nose as a secondary anchor. I use 5" because I want all of the stabilizing I can reasonably get. Plus, the arrows look good to my eye with this fletch.
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Offline Hummer3T

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5 inch Parabolic, Parabolic cut is quietest and I'm all about my bow shooting the quietest it can / I can make it.  Five inch seems to give it enough rotation.
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Offline Ragnarok Forge

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3 inch shield cut in 4 fletch.   Gives me the same surface area as 3 - 4 inch fletch and has way less noise than longer arrows.
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Offline TRAD101

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tried just about all size and shape,settled on
5" shield.

Offline Rock 'N Bow

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4 inch parabolic 3 fletch.
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3 inch A&A cut four fletch
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4 inch parabolic 3 fletch.Its enough feather for me with the carbons that are tuned well.Thier quiet and not too expensive.You can get 2 fletchings from one full length feather to save some cash as well if you wanna go that way.

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Re: What's your favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows?
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2012, 05:31:00 PM »
3 4" shield cut.

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Re: What's your favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows?
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2012, 05:54:00 PM »
I also use 3, 4" feathers. I prefer shield cut (aesthetics) but I have parabolic on my current arrows.

My arrows are only 27-27.5" long with my 26" draw. I also hunt with single bevel broadheads that match the helical of my feathers. I just don't need longer feathers to stablizied my well-tuned arrows.

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Re: What's your favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows?
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2012, 09:39:00 PM »
I use three 4" feathers, both parabolic and shield.
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Re: What's your favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows?
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2012, 09:48:00 PM »
4" 4 fletch shield cut.

Offline stujay

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Re: What's your favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows?
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2012, 10:09:00 PM »
I use both 4" parabolic and 4" shield cut feathers

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Re: What's your favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows?
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2012, 10:43:00 PM »
4" parabolic.  I'd use 3 if I could get good flight.

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Re: What's your favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows?
« Reply #16 on: March 03, 2012, 01:06:00 AM »
4 inch, 3 fletch parabolic cut. Just like them better.

Offline Keith Langford

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Re: What's your favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows?
« Reply #17 on: March 03, 2012, 07:06:00 AM »
3 fletch- 4" shield, used to use 5" because I thought I needed it for good broadhead flight, but that is not the case,perfect flight with 4" and less drag,less noise,that can only be a plus
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Re: What's your favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows?
« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2012, 07:11:00 AM »
4X4" parabolic for the wife and I

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Re: What's your favorite feather length and shape for their carbon arrows?
« Reply #19 on: March 03, 2012, 07:19:00 AM »
5" 3 fletch shield cut with as much helix that i can get out of my fletching jig,just like the looks, have tried 4" 4 fletch but kep going back to the 5" 3 fletch.
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