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boomhowzer:
I agree with BowEd, those are a good first attempt. I'll be your next ones will be sure flyers.

I know many people on the forum have made good, straight shooting two-fletch arrows, but I've never been able to do it. The helical twist of the feathers has to be pretty spot on, otherwise they won't fly straight. With 3 feathers helping to spin the shaft, there is more forgiveness for beginners like us. As long as all 3 feathers are arranged in a similar angle down the shaft, it'll fly straight. With a two feather fletch, if one is just slightly off-kilter with the other, the arrow will have a harder time making a fast, tight rotation, causing all sorts of whirligigs and whoopdydoos. I would hang those on your wall (or shoot one of them into a ream of plate steal and see how you can improve durability), start straightening another few sticks, and keep posting pictures because we all love to see them.

TimBo:
Judging by the first photo (taken from the nock end), it looks like you have one LW and one RW feather.  If that is true, your flight would not be great since the two fletchings would be fighting each other. 

paulc:
Thanks all...guess I will try to remove the fletching and this shift can be kindling. Timbo,  I can see how it might look like I mixed feathers...I am confident I did not. I did Def malform the feathers trying to get them tight. So there is one lesson learned....

Thanks, yall are the best. Paul

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