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flu flu fletching
riarcher:
Also found that when you do the spiral,,, if you do it so the feather curls forward it'll slow the arrow faster. (sometimes good / sometimes not)
Either way, they sound cool in flight. Like a flock of grouse taking to wing.
Wetting the base of the feather and breaking it over a rather sharp corner first makes it a lot easier to work with too.
If they seem to slow you down too fast, just trim as needed on the height.
I used all the junk shafts I could fine for mine. Spine match didn't seem overly important. Probably because all that fletch made it run true pretty quick out of the chute (?).
That and being 10 yds. and (well) under in range for shots.
Pat B:
Flu flus are noisier than regular feathers because of more wind resistance and because of the extra length of the feather barbs. Reversing the feather will slow the flu flu quicker and it will be noisier. If you are hunting with flu flus you will want to keep them as quiet as possible because the noise alerts the critters.
I have accidentally put flu flus on in reverse and noticed they don't last as long because the barbs are bending backwards and not laying down like a regular fletched flu flu or standard fletching.
Swamp Bow:
--- Quote from: Pat B on February 12, 2010, 11:02:40 am --- I have accidentally put flu flus on in reverse and noticed they don't last as long because the barbs are bending backwards and not laying down like a regular fletched flu flu or standard fletching.
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Good to know!
Swamp
aero86:
what about if you use the other side of a large feather? im stripping some turkey feathers, and some of the sides that isnt the side im using, are pretty long. could i use that? know what i mean?
Pat B:
You can use both sides of the feathers but you have to keep them separate because they act like right wing and left wing. Keep the rear portion of the feathers together and the forward portions together and don't mix them.
With spiral flu flus it doesn't matter because you are using only one feather per arrow and left wing arrows and right wing arrows fly similarly enough.
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