ORIGINAL: PA Bow/Flinter
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Not trying to let this go too far.......
I just learned something today that I didn't know. According to an article I read today on Hunter's Friend......an arrow that is fletched with straight fletching does NOT spin.
I had no idea. I thought they all did.
Your information is wrong. All arrows spin....some may only spin a little bit, but they do. I shoot very close to a straight fletch and the orientation of my fletchings in the target are not the same as when they left my bow. I can't believe an arrow could be made symmetrical enough to not spinat all. Heck, I think even bare shafts spin when shot....not a lot, but some.
Not saying your wrong, and you probably know more about this than i do, but I just shot my Blazers with only a slight helical 10 times. I put a blue dot on the cock vane down blazer and 10 out of 10 times the blue dot fletching was facing down just as it was knocked on the arrow. Note that this was at about 8 yrds in my apartment so i dont know if distance has anything to do with it or not.
Dubbya- Thanks for the Math lesson. I guess figuring it was easier than i thought.