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Eastern Two Fletch
burchett.donald:
Thanks guy's...Here's a link on the turtle claw handle...
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,63412.0.html
Gimlis Ghost:
Aside from the end tags your fletching looks exactly like what I used over half a century ago when I made a few arrows for a long bow I made in high school.
Pope stated the only good two vane fletching was on a wind vane but had very good results with mine. I used turkey feathers straight from the bird. I used dental floss to bind the ends.
Pat B:
Many people today use a two fletch of some sort with good results. Building a proper arrow for your bow and your style of shooting, whether it be 2 fletch, 3 fletch or four fletch is irrelevant. You can get an arrow with Eastern Woodland two fletch to fly as well as any other fletching style but you have to understand arrows, paradox and arrow flight first.
Gimlis Ghost:
Seems to me that the extra drag of this sort of fletching would act to improve close and mid range accuracy while limiting maximum range a bit.
Close range penetration should also be improved by dampening yaw. The point being more likely to enter cleanly if there's no yaw.
They found that WW2 era armor piercing bullets penetrated better at 200 yards than at closer ranges because by then the yaw had straightened itself out.
Earlier in smoothbore muzzle loader days they tried putting a cord tail on musket balls, the drag of the cord dampening any tendency to roll.
I seem to remember such a tail being tried with arrows at one time, but can't remember details. Perhaps it was ballista bolts instead of arrows.
burchett.donald:
As far as wind drag effect on 2 vs 3 fletch I haven't experienced any difference...I'm a hunter and try to keep my shots under 20 yds. max, so I'm not sure of long range performance...I do also bare shaft tune each arrow from 5 to 15 yards before fletching to make sure I have good arrow flight in close for maximum penetration...My "main concern" is that the helical fletching spins the shaft and point guarding against wind plain or cross winds in a hunting scenario...My arrows are all well over 600 grains...Here's a few link's to a couple in action...
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,54427.0.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EsTdG_eYTk
Don
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