Best fletching shape

[Tradtical Commando]

What fletching shape does everyone feel is the quietest and best flying?

I am thinking about getting a fletch cutter since I have a lot of turkey wings.

[Biathlonman]

Parabolic or low profile banana.

[Bladepeek]

I think if everyone felt that one particular shape were the best, there would probably be only one shape. If we're voting, I'll take a standard height parabolic.

Bet you get a lot of different answers here  

[Tradtical Commando]

Are there any down falls to a banana or low profile banana?

[tradhunter]

I have loved these for several years now....looks all kinds of wicked, and quiet as well.

[Tradtical Commando]

Those are bad to the bone! My premiss for wanting to know about banana feathers, is that I can buy a single cutter and it will work on both left wing and right wing feathers. As for making my own fletching it seems like it would be more efficient. I just don't have any experience with them.

[tradhunter]

I find that high cut bananas are noisy as heck, but the low bananas fly very well, and you don't have the sound.

[Stump73]

I shoot banna cut they are as quiet than any other I have used. Mine are the standard not the low profile.

[JRY309]

As long as your arrow is tuned well,any shape will be fine.Feather height will makes a feather noisy,not the shape.I like 4-4" parabolic,works great and is quiet.

[Tradtical Commando]

Ok thanks. I will go ahead and get it ordered.

[Jack Hoyt 75]

Parabolic is best overall.  IMO I would want arrow steering over a little noise.  I recently got a 5" LW shield cutter and like them a lot also.  Low profile could create flight issues maybe??

[timbermoose]

all i use is the banana. cuts both right and left. I don't notice any noise. i fletch 4 5.5" with a R or L helical. but only use left helical out of selfbows, i found with right helical the feathers contact and cut my knuckle. right handed.

[katman]

I also find parabolic or low profile banana's quieter than shield. The A&A fletch is very quiet but you need a high foc. In the real world it probably does not matter regarding the sound of the fletch. Don't sacrifice stability for noise.

[BUFF]

I use 5-1/2" banana cut and they are very noisy.
BUT they just look too cool to change

[dnovo]

I've always liked the banana and think the noise is cool. I've never had the fletching noise bother the deer either. I have several choppers, but now I burn them and can make them any height and length I want. Right now I have them at 4 1/2" and about 5/8 tall.
Besides, isn't trad archery all about looking COOL?

[D]

I shoot shields and they seemed to be a little loud so I took my chopper and put a shim on the bottow where the quill sets and made them a lower profile and this helped out.  3 Rivers has a chopper shape called the swift and I think it look pretty cool to me.  Just shoot what YOU like best.

[Rob DiStefano]

as with bows and strings and shafts, there no best overall fletch shape.  that would make life too easy.

[BAK]

Nothing with a trailing edge is going to be as quiet as a parabolic.  May look cooler, but when hunting I want performance, not esthetics.

[DJTJR]

Yea I find that it's the broad head that really annoys the deer not the noise;)

[Slickhead]

Ive used the 5.5 magnum for years (since I switched to trad)
Mine are pretty silent.
But I like the look of sheild cut, and may switch this year.