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Author Topic: Quick tuning question  (Read 446 times)

Offline JDunlap

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Quick tuning question
« on: February 18, 2014, 01:59:00 PM »
If fletching on one arrow is a quarter inch closer to the nock than on another arrow, will it change how they fly?
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Offline MCS

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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2014, 02:09:00 PM »
Probably not. I would say no.

Offline Bladepeek

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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2014, 02:36:00 PM »
Sounds like a good project for a lab exercise   :)
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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2014, 02:45:00 PM »
Nope but cut 1/4" off if it bothers you.
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Offline ChuckC

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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2014, 02:50:00 PM »
Technically. .  Probably.  But We Would Never Notice It.
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Offline JDunlap

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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2014, 03:53:00 PM »
I believe I am detecting a little well deserved sarcasm!! And I know I'm being nit picky -- but if you've ever tried to tune for the big 160 grain snuffers - they are a BEARCAT to get them flying perfect. All joking aside, thanks for your input guys!
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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2014, 06:23:00 PM »
Any affect on flight would be so small as to be unmeasurable.

Offline Easykeeper

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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2014, 09:13:00 PM »
Wouldn't matter in the least as far as shooting.  

It would drive me crazy aesthetically so I'd strip the feathers off and it would be a bare-shaft tuning arrow.

Offline olddogrib

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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2014, 12:53:00 PM »
Joe,
Nothing wrong with picky.  You won't notice any flight difference, but it's a very important consideration if you use the nose to back of cock fletch as a second(of 3 in my case) anchor. That dimension will determine a consistent draw length!
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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2014, 12:24:00 AM »
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Originally posted by olddogrib:
Joe,
Nothing wrong with picky.  You won't notice any flight difference, but it's a very important consideration if you use the nose to back of cock fletch as a second(of 3 in my case) anchor. That dimension will determine a consistent draw length!
Don't mean to hi-jack the thread.... but i always wondered about what happens when your feathers get wet to the guys using the feather to nose anchor point?....   :dunno:

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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2014, 12:34:00 AM »
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Originally posted by Kirkll:
 
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Originally posted by olddogrib:
Joe,
Nothing wrong with picky.  You won't notice any flight difference, but it's a very important consideration if you use the nose to back of cock fletch as a second(of 3 in my case) anchor. That dimension will determine a consistent draw length!
Don't mean to hi-jack the thread.... but i always wondered about what happens when your feathers get wet to the guys using the feather to nose anchor point?....    :dunno:  [/b]
then it's time to blow their nose and maybe take a decongestant:)
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Offline soy

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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2014, 03:27:00 AM »
Now that is funny   :laughing:

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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2014, 06:05:00 AM »
Kirk,
LOL,I can answer that...I don't hunt in the rain.  Almost lost a nice deer due to a washed-out blood trail years ago(and it wasn't raining when I shot). After I had given, up I lucked up and nearly tripped over it on my way out. Never again, I can do better. I also don't shoot parabolics for lack of nasal contact and I'm not overly fond of the flight of broadhead-tipped arrows with wet fletching. As Budweiser so aptly stated...rituals are only strange if they don't work!
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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2014, 06:27:00 AM »
You might think its Wet, but itSnot.....  :rolleyes:
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Offline hvyhitter

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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2014, 03:49:00 PM »
I've been using the big snuffers over 20 yrs and a well tuned arrow flys great with about any broadhead even with wet/torn fetching. If you are having flight problems with slight variations in the fletching it sounds more like a spine/tuning issue that your fletching is correcting/covering up................YMMV
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Re: Quick tuning question
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2014, 07:32:00 PM »
I don't have flight problems with wet fletching that I'm aware of, never tried it. Perhaps I should have more accurately stated I was not fond of the concept...I always thought the advice "never bare shaft with broadheads" sounded like it came from somebody who had let his umbrella policy premiums lapse and tried it,lol!
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