Cock feather in?

[Greg Szalewski]

I recently paper tuned bare shafts and they shot great but after installing the feathers they were kicking tail high off the shelf. I turned them 180 and shot fine. Cock feather in from now on.

[Bear Heart]

I shoot  with my top feather just to the right of my string (left handed) so that the tip of the feather touches my nose.  This is pretty close to a full cock feather in but not quite.  This only works when my feathers are not all wetted down from the Washington State rain.

[JParanee]

Either way makes no difference

[PeteA]

I shot cock feather in for a while. I did it because the top hen feather then gave me an additional anchor point touching the tip of my nose. With the 2 solid anchors groups got tighter.

[daniel boon]

Cock feather in for me. Some of my bows like a 3/8" nock point, and the flethed arrow was kicking of the shelf, while the bare shaft was good. cock feather in fixed that. so now I shoot that way with all my bows

[Richie]

I've found that I have better flight with cock feather in while shoting a long bow. Has become habit now.

[screamin]

Originally posted by PeteA:
I shot cock feather in for a while. I did it because the top hen feather then gave me an additional anchor point touching the tip of my nose. With the 2 solid anchors groups got tighter.

yep, same here    

[Night Wing]

I'm right handed, shoot a right handed bow using a split finger tab with the tab being one over, two under.

I tried cock feather in. Unlike the rest of you in this thread, it didn't do as well for me as cock feather out does. I attribute this to some variable in my shooting form.

This is why I prefer to shoot cock feather out.

[stujay]

Mine is out, best feather clearance for me.

[Shakes.602]

I agree with stujay, but whichever direction gets the arrow where you want it to go is the best way!

[cacciatore]

Originally posted by daniel boon:
Cock feather in for me. Some of my bows like a 3/8" nock point, and the flethed arrow was kicking of the shelf, while the bare shaft was good. cock feather in fixed that. so now I shoot that way with all my bows

And also it gives me a second anchor point touching the point of my nose with a feather.

[Bob Stager]

I have been shooting cock feather in for as long as I can remember. It improved my arrow flight.

[Gary Sorensen]

I started shooting cock feather in a couple of years ago when I notice that in hunting situations with the cock feather out it would create noise as it grazed against the stubble of my beard.  I had never noticed it during normal shooting, but it sounded very loud in the quiet moment of drawing on an animal. I see no adverse effect on arrow flight.