ORIGINAL: gzg38b
It has to effect it. I think the degree to which your bow is tuned determines how much the mesh affects the arrow flight. A perfectly tuned bow shooting bullet holes through paper would likely not be affected much. But an arrow coming off the bow with anyfishtail could be affected quite a bit, don't you think?
Yes and no.
For the same reason that its sometimes difficult to paper tune a bow from six feet, shooting through mesh at less than a foot won't effect it much if any. The arrow [at that distance] doesn't have any real time to stabalize, so the fletching really hasn't started to do its job.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't noticed much effect out to 40 yards or so.