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Does your arrow spin in flight?
03-11-2008 | 03:12 PM
#41
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: Eureka, MO
RE: Does your arrow spin in flight?
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.
We'll play with Dubbya's numbers 300 fps, 1100 rpm. Your target is at 8 yards or 24 feet. At 300 fps, the arrow will strike the target in .08 second. 1100 rpm is 18.3 rounds per second. 18.3 X .08 = 1.46
So, the very most your arrow could spin in 24 ft is 1 1/2 revolutions,and it's not likely to startspinning at all in that short of a distance.
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Thanks Arthur! I figured it would probably take some time to start spinning I just didnt know how long, and at what distance it would start.
03-11-2008 | 03:30 PM
#42
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Jul 2004
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From: Fairbanks, AK
RE: Does your arrow spin in flight?
ORIGINAL: Arthur P
We who shoot traditional don't qestion it, bigcountry,because our arrows fly slow enough we can see them do it. But most of these guys with their rocket launcher compounds don't have a clue. I bet a lot of 'em have never seen an arrow fly from their bow because they close their eyes at release and the arrow is sticking in the target by the time they open them again. 
Arrow speed, rate of spin and distance all affect how many revolutions your arrow will make on it's way to the target. Not to mention that the fletching won't even induce spin until the arrow is some distance from the bow. The faster the bow shoots, the further the arrowtravels before the fletching catches the wind and even begins to spin and stabilize it.
We'll play with Dubbya's numbers 300 fps, 1100 rpm. Your target is at 8 yards or 24 feet. At 300 fps, the arrow will strike the target in .08 second. 1100 rpm is 18.3 rounds per second. 18.3 X .08 = 1.46
So, the very most your arrow could spin in 24 ft is 1 1/2 revolutions,and it's not likely to startspinning at all in that short of a distance.
Is this like a trick question or do people really question wheather thier arrows spin?
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.
We'll play with Dubbya's numbers 300 fps, 1100 rpm. Your target is at 8 yards or 24 feet. At 300 fps, the arrow will strike the target in .08 second. 1100 rpm is 18.3 rounds per second. 18.3 X .08 = 1.46
So, the very most your arrow could spin in 24 ft is 1 1/2 revolutions,and it's not likely to startspinning at all in that short of a distance.
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Go look at the link I gave you. It's not MY information.
You can take it up with them.
Go look at the link I gave you. It's not MY information.
You can take it up with them.
03-11-2008 | 04:22 PM
#43
Fork Horn
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Georgia
RE: Does your arrow spin in flight?
Mine must spin, I shoot with the cock-vane up and when I retrieve it from the target the cock-vaneain't up, don't know how many times it spins, but it does.
I fletch straight with offset (2" blazers), and have also done right helical, they spin too.
I fletch straight with offset (2" blazers), and have also done right helical, they spin too.
03-11-2008 | 07:19 PM
#48
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Nov 2004
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From: Wadena, MN
RE: Does your arrow spin in flight?
98% vote yes, why do we have all these polls? Jeff you have spent on your sights than most have on their setups. You know arrows spin. You have a Traditional set up, a hunting set up and a 3-d set up. Alll of which are less than 1 year old. You know arows spin. Why all the threads?
PM's from fathers! Rob
03-11-2008 | 08:33 PM
#50
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Feb 2007
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From: Nashville, Ohio
RE: Does your arrow spin in flight?
I voted i don't know i have really never checked i suppose they probably do. I set my blazers to the most agressive helical i get and still contact the arrow on both ends of the fletch.