Cock vain up or down
 

Those who shoot with feathers. Do you shoot with the cock vain up or down ? Does it matter if you use a drop away?

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

If you're shooting a drop-away it shouldn't matter, no.

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

This is not always true. I have a Trophy Taker Shakey Hunter and I have to have my cock vane down and to the left. This makes it so one of the vanes is pointing straight up. If I were to shoot them any other way the vanes would hit my rest. The feathers may not be affected by the rest though, buthaving the feathers hit the rest wouldn't do anything good for the arrows flight.

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

The whole point of shooting a drop away rest is to eliminate as much contact with the arrow as possible. If you're getting contact, especially with your vanes, I would take a look at how you've got the rest set up. You shouldn't get any contact at all.

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

This is true, but I am unable to get perfect clearance on my rest without having nocks turned a certain way. If I just stuck my arrows on my string the vanes would hit my cable.

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

I've got the same problem as Zak, but its not really a problem.. If I had my cock feather straight up or Straight down, I'd have clearance issues with my cables. I start out with cock vane up but rotate the nock so the vane is angled towards the riser. Its almost like my old fingers set-up for my flipper rest with the cock vane pointing left. I have no clearance problems with my drop away.

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

YOU MUST TUNE YOUR DROP IT SHOULD WORK

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

Modern bows are so fast even drop aways are having problems getting out of the way. I have to turn mine a certain way also or will get contact. But at 280 fps. that drop away needs to fly away.

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

On my old Fred Bear Whitetail II bow, which have a two prong rest, my arrows' cock vane is pointed down.

On my PSE Nitro, which have a Bodoodle Zapper 400 rest, which have three prongs (10,2 and6 o'clock positions)...my arrows' cock vane is pointed straight up.

Use whichever way that works best for you......

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

I got a whisker biscuit.. Mine is pointed up

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

I suggest that you buy a real drop away like the muzzy zero effect then u can shoot whatever way u like!! your rest is actually a fall away inertia operated not forced out of the way.

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

Hard Question ..Let me rub it and see.......down!

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

With a drop away I would tend to prefer to shoot cock vane up but with the extra forgiveness that a feather provides I am not sure that it would be as crucial.

RE: Cock vain up or down
 

The cock feather is just a visual referencethat assures that shooterwhen they nock any tuned arrow, all clearance issues with respect to a choosen rest, cables, etc have been addressed, and arrow flight is consistant with the last. Up, down, sideways, whatever. Traditionally prong rests are typically cock down, side mounted riser rests (old school) where cock out, and small diameter carbon launcher rests were cock up. I have NO experience w/ the drop aways, or whisker bisquit style, so whatever addresses any clearance issues - get-r-done!

Many of us don't even address the cock feather issue, our arrows are dipped (or wrapped) have all one color (usually white or some other bright color) and reference the nock. These arrowsvideo really nice. If you get the angle right, they look like a tracer, and the point of impact on the animal really shows up.