As I mentioned on a prior thread my son and I are getting our first recurves for Christmas. I will be shooting a right handed bow - his willl be left handed. Is there any relationship between "handedness" and the proper direction of helical on the fletching?
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Left wing unscrews the tip, right wing makes it so darn tight you
can't get it off.
I shoot left offset. With left feathers, the natural curve of the feather will spin the arrow, if your bow is properly tuned you don't need helical.
I shoot Muzzy Phantoms,Snuffers and old Bear razorheads with no problem what so ever.
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Some people have said right handers shoot left wings and left handers shoot right wings for the way the arrow will spin off of bow and not onto it. I have also shot both and both seem to do fine. Seemed to notice it more shooting my old Massie longbows with thier shallow cut for shelf.
I shoot all left wing now due to my JoJan fletch jig and from time to time I see my tips loosen.
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The only time i have seen any difference at all was when shooting our self-bows. On the ones i built, the arrow rests very close to the top of the fist. For a long time, all i had was a jo-jan fletcher with left wing clamps so that is what i used to fletch every arrow that we built. This setup was fine until some of my children started shooting who were left-eye dominant (left handed shooters). Shooting the bows and arrows that i built for them, they would sometimes get a cut across the top of the bow hand. A quick fix was to have them lower their grip a little further down from the shelf. I finally got some different clamps and started fletching with right wing feathers for the lefty's. I don't know if this really cured the problem or not as the lefty's all grew up, moved out, and don't shoot anymore. Nowadays, i straight fletch everything with 4-fletch. I wish i still had all my lefty's at home to shoot with but alas, they have moved on to other things. Now i am teaching their children to shoot---and I LOVE IT!!! However, they are all right handed and some of them even have become so blasphemous as to shoot a c-c-ccc-compound (I can barely bring myself to say that word) so I can't really prove or disprove anything concerning the fletch! LOL. (J/K about the compounds!) Sooooo--I guess that pretty much adds NOTHING of value to this conversation! Happy Holidays to all!!! Eastex
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