ORIGINAL: bigcountry
ORIGINAL: Black Stick
Originally, because that was what I was told at my pro shop, but being the way I am, I tried orienting the cock fletch in just about every direction. I found that I had fletching clearance issues whenever any one of the feathers were pointed down within about a 20° range from being perfectly vertical. I was not using my limb driver for these test. I used the QAD Ultra HD. This caused me to conclude that by orienting the cock fletch up, there would be more room for the fletchings to clear the arm. Make sense?
Sure it makes sense. But if you time the HD right, and have proper clearance from the riser/cables, a guy should be able to have any type of direction he wants.
It seems its real critical for guys with quikspins, and blazers and other wider blades. You got to love feathers because it doesn't mean anything to them.
Yea, I did this little test before I read SC's step by step for setting up a QAD. Still, the test proves that cock fletch up will give the fletchings more room to pass by.