Broadhead and fletching

vaporbowhunter · 09-20-2004, 12:19 PM

I was talking to my cousin and he was saying that when shooting a 2blade broadhead cut on impact that you have to use a straight fletch and when using a 3blad broadhead you have to use helical. Is there any truth to this?

LBR · 09-20-2004, 12:56 PM

Not that I have seen. I shoot helical regardless. My arrows fly like darts with either broadhead.

Chad

Grey Taylor · 09-20-2004, 01:38 PM

I use helical on every arrow I make, irregardless of what tip it has.
I would think that a two blade's possibly greater tendancy to plane would mean that helical would be even more important.

Guy

BobCo19-65 · 09-20-2004, 01:45 PM

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Is there any truth to this?

In short - nope.

brb6687 · 09-20-2004, 01:55 PM

Helical always stabilizes anything better. Think about the spin put on a bullet by the rifling of a gun barrel. Now think about what that bullet would look like with no spin.

UncleNorby · 09-20-2004, 02:41 PM

BS.

Helical is the way to go. You can vary the amount of offset, but stick with helical.