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Old 08-05-2013 | 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Jbergy
If your fletchings are touching your cables even a little bit will affect the flight of your arrows, so you should get a cable guard and you can get those pretty much at any bow shop or cabelas etc. also if your cables are touching each other you definitely need a cable guard
This will be increasingly noticeable once you switch to broadheads. A broadhead will exaggerate the effect of fletching contact on the cables and your groups will be larger. Feathers will help but will not eliminate the problem.
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