Listening to a pro talk fletchings — spoke of testing the natural rotation on a bare shaft arrow, then match your natural rotation to the helical. Is there any merit to this or is this just the stuff that separates the pro's from the rest of us?
Tested this a few months ago and bare shaft and straight fletched arrows rotate left at 10', and of course left helical rotates left. Right helical rotate right at 10'. Helical in either direction will rotate more through the whisker biscuit. Arrows were shot with qad hdx and whisker biscuit pro. Personally didn't think it was worth it to refletch all my arrows or refletch the few that I fletched left. Apparently the 3° helical over matched the influence the string had on natural rotation.
Is rotation related to string twist, or serving twist? I am ignorant to string building and unaware if the two must rotate the same, or can be opposite of each other.
I have a set of rogue strings in a bow (backwards of most) and it still puts a ccw rotation on my arrow, tho not as much as some of the others. Serving is backwards as well. So not positive it's direction of string or serving twist, might have more to do with loop twist while at anchor or something.
I have a friend that's says he has had them rotate in different directions within the same batch of arrows, I haven't experienced that.
Is serving direction dictated by the string twist? Or can the same twist direction string have serving twisted either way?
I've only tested speeds at point blank range and saw no difference between left or right helical through same rest but straight fletched was 2 fps faster through the whisker biscuit. As far as drop I don't see enough difference to matter personally but I don't shoot out to 100 yards. 5 pin fixed sights and 665 grain arrows I shoot at 65 yards with bottom pin.Interestingly nice. Curious. Did you perform any other tests farther down range, like down range speed or drop?
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What about using a straight clamp with an offset to one side or the other? Anyone tried that?
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