anyone shooting 4-fletch?

[jcprintz]

For more years than I remember . My current set up is 4" bananas @ 60/120

[JAG]

5" low profile nanners!

[misfire]

4 4" LW on both the longbow and recurve. It's working well so far.

[SELFBOW19953]

All I shoot is 4 fletch, unless I'm trying to recreate 50's style arrows.

[damascusdave]

Why would you think that 16 inches of total fletch would not shoot just as well as 15 inches?

DDave

[buckeyebowhunter]

Originally posted by damascusdave:
Why would you think that 16 inches of total fletch would not shoot just as well as 15 inches?

DDave

Interesting thought, I think it does but for some reason the 4-fletch seems to straighten up a little quicker. I notice this when shooting at longer distances... cant explain why though    

[xtrema312]

Originally posted by buckeyebowhunter:
 

Originally posted by damascusdave:
Why would you think that 16 inches of total fletch would not shoot just as well as 15 inches?

DDave

Interesting thought, I think it does but for some reason the 4-fletch seems to straighten up a little quicker. I notice this when shooting at longer distances... cant explain why though      [/b]

could be feather clearance. You probably have very little difference in feather area of using the same cut shape.

[ChuckC]

I have gone to 4-4" bananna cut feathers.  Three will stabilize a field point right nice and it seems to do so for my broadheads, but I prefer the extra for actual hunting.  I   think you will find they fly well and are much quieter. They also make less noise in the quiver and don't tickle your nose at full draw.

We have had quite an extensive discussion or three about this concept years ago.  Maybe do some searches.

Of course, your arrow set up needs to be pretty close to well balanced in the first place.

Some folks (I used to) think that you need as much feather as you can get on the arrow during hunting.  That's fine too, but for my shooting, the 4" feathers seem to work fine.

ChuckC

[Terry Green]

Not just shooting 4 Fletch...but killing with them...Here's a few special kill arrows.

This pic is a few years old ....dominated by 4 flech arrows and a few 3 fletch...got about 15 more to add that are all 4 fletch and a few flu flus.

5 inch shields...    


 

[JamesKerr]

I use both 3 fletch and 4 fletch just depending on what I want to do with that arrow. To me it makes no difference.

[pitt98]

Switched over to 4" 4 fletch parabolic and love them.  Doubt I'll ever go 3-fletch again for any reason.

[bowhunterportugal]

4x5" feathers is all I shoot.

They don't loose any speed, at least that you notice naked eye, and the stability in windy days is awesome. Also a plus when shooting wide bh like simmons.

[Tradcat]

I SWEAR by (4)5" Parabolic feathers...super quiet AND steers a broadhead well when you make a bad release or pluck the string. Use the most helical that the ARROW will allow !!!
                                 Tradcat

[tippit]

Four fletch 4" parabolic with rabbit fur tracers...tippit

 

[Beanbag]

I've been shooting 4-3.5" with low profile banannas for awhile. Like darts. I use 3.5 because it's easier to get two fletchs out of a feather.

[KentuckyTJ]

4 - 4" here.

[Fritz]

4X4 only for me.

[beachbowhunter]

4x3 on regular sized shafts and 4X2 on MFX/skinny shafts. IMHO huge fletching covers up a lot of bad tuning problems and causes problems in windy conditions out in the open.

[Rob DiStefano]

been using a 4.25" 75x105 lo-pro banana fletch on hunting carbons for quite a few years.

 

[Kris]

I shoot 3x4" on carbons that I front load to about 23% - 28% FoC.  They fly really good even with big wide BH's.  I am of the opinion you should not use more fletching than you have to, otherwise your driving with the breaks on.  I also believe lower profile fletching clears the hor/vert rests better, also contributing to better arrow flight.  Use fletches as small as you can while still obtaining perfect arrow flight w/your BH's.  This is why bare shaft is an important tool .

Give it shot, you'll be surprised.

Good luck -

Kris