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Left wing vs Right wing

Started by Dry Creek, April 15, 2017, 09:03:00 PM

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Dry Creek

What is everybody using?
Right wing, left wing or both?
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Mike Vines

I once saw a bunch of left wings that, on the surface, appeared OK, but just weren't all there, and they NEVER flew the same as the others.  

 So I diverted my attention to right wings, and too, I found them to be pleasing, but with a few "fliers", just nowhere near as many as the left wings.

Then I tried straight (Independent) and found my place.

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goingoldskool

I've shot both and have both in my quiver. I don't see any difference in flight and point of impacts are identical.  I find that fletching right wing feathers are easier for me, so that is what I primarily use.

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Deno

Stared with LW long ago.  Just never switched.

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monterey

Same as deno.  In years past LW were more readily available.
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BOHO

left for me. I shoot right handed but wish I had gotten right. wouldnt have to keep tightening my points all the time. since I have left jig and everything else though I'll just stay with it.
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QuoteOriginally posted by BOHO:
left for me. I shoot right handed but wish I had gotten right. wouldnt have to keep tightening my points all the time.
Yes you would!!!!!

Bisch

JRY309

I shoot both LW and RW,see no difference on well tuned arrows!

Pat B

Like most I used primarily left wing because they were always available commercially. Now I use whatever I have available and it doesn't make a difference in my arrow flight. I use a JoJan straight Multifletch and just offset it one way or the other a little depending on left or right wing feathers.
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Hot Hap

The only thing left wing about me is my feathers!

DarrinG

I know lots of folks say that either is fine, but years ago when I started fletching my own arrows, the line of thought that it would be better for the arrow to start spinning away from my riser instead of in to it seemed to make sense. So being a lefty I've been using RW feathers ever since. I've saw so-mo video and the like and many folks who say it don't matter, and maybe it don't, but it makes me feel better about it anyhow, so I shoot RW to get spin away from my riser since Im a lefty.
Mark 1:17

DarrinG

And to add...I also like a pretty radical helical on my arrows. My Bitz is set for a goodly amount of helical and I like same for shooting broadheads to get quick stabilization if I happen to get the perfect shot on a windy day into a crosswind.
Mark 1:17

Longtoke

Left wing

why?

Because I was gifted a jojan with a leftwing clamp. If I had bought it myself I would have went right wing
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Sam McMichael

I started using left wing in the early days, because "they" said that a right handed shooter should do this. Since then I have used right wing fletching with no noticeable difference in performance.
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JamesV

I fletch straight offset and have used both on the same arrow with no problems.
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mj seratt

I have Bitz in R, L, and straight.  I use the right almost exclusively, reason being, I want the arrow to spin just like a football when I throw it. If that ain't scientific enough for you, I'm afraid we can't be friends.  (Just kidding)

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David Mitchell

When I was a kid I had an Indian Archery lemonwood bow that got ignored totally in high school and college.  Years later when getting back into it I decided to make my own arrows so went to an archery shop to buy feathers. The guy asked if I wanted left or right wing....I ask, "What's the difference?" the guy says left wing comes off the left wing of a turkey and right wing comes off the right wing of a turkey.  I figure he had to be pulling my leg...."Yeah right!".  Then he showed me the different curve in the feathers.  By golly, learned something that day.    :biglaugh:
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I shoot left and right handed regularly. So when I go four fletch I put on two left wing feathers with my left wing jig and I put on two right wing feathers with my right wing jig.

JR Belk

I use both. Lefts on a 3 fletch and rights on a 4 fletch
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