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Pappy:
I usually use 4 or 4 1/2 inch,for no other reason than thats all I need to get the arrows to fly if they are set up for my bow.  :) Larger heavy helical feathers really slow the arrow down and are sometimes noisy and I don't like either.  :) I am not into speed but see no use in slowing it down for no reason.  :)
   Pappy

JW_Halverson:
Lotta people don't like to "bare shaft" test their arrows and go for the More Fletching The Better school of thought.  While it is true that more fletching will correct arrow flight faster, you gotta remember what it is that is correcting the arrow flight: Drag.  It's a drag, man, bummer drag.

Pappy has it right, no sense slowing an arrow down for no reason.  When that arrow shaft comes off your bow 'as straight as an arrow', the least little bit of fletching is all you need to get the shaft spinning and stabilizing the flight.  And before someone jumps in and adds the arguement that you need more fletching if you shoot broadheads take into account that even if you have a broadhead on the shaft, an arrow matched more closely to the bow must recover faster because the wind planing is less severe than a poorly matched shaft.  That being said, I reserve the outermost turkey primaries for hunting arrows because they are much stiffer and I leave them taller than target, stump, roving, and general plinking arrows.  They end up about 3/8" high at the back and 1/4" high at the front, straight cut, 5 inches long. Kinda Sioux looking, ya know?

I now yield the soapbox to the next person, thank you.  Hope I didn't sound too much like a know-it-all.

Pappy:
Dead on JW. :)
   Pappy

aero86:
nope, you make perfect sense.  the reason i use precut is because i like a bit of uniformity to my arrows.  make them look like i knew what i was doing.  but thank you for your answers, it makes sense to me now. 

TheWildCat:
  I'm with ya. make sure your spine for the arrow is correct first. Then see what feather length ya actually need. As fer controllin Broadheads. It is common to want more feather to controll Broadhead flight. However, one of the Senior Archers at my club told me that unless an arrow is travillin at least 165 fps or faster, a broadhead dose not tend to fly on ya. Don't know how true that is, but it seems to work fer me. I do things the hard way, so I sacrafice a arrow with a broadhead, and trim the feathers off shorter with each shot, utill it starts gettin poor flight. I stop there, re-fletch and see ifin that works. Usually dose. Thats my feather length, fer that set of arrows, with the particular broadhead I am usin at that time.

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