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    Sep 24, 2020 5 minutes

    Q If I fletch my arrows straight rather than offset will I leave a bit more energy in the arrow? Seems like there must be some sort of trade-off. Am I missing something?

    A While manufacturers put effort into making high quality arrows that are straight, they are not ‘perfectly straight’. Careful testing with my shooting machine shows that if we ensure that the arrows spin about their longitudinal axis the groups will be tighter and we will score more. We can do this by placing the fletches at a small angle to the shaft – 1 or 2 degrees is quite sufficient and in any case is about as much as you can get on a small diameter shaft such as a Protour.

    It does take a small amount of energy to get the arrows spinning, and that energy comes by slightly decreasing the arrow’s speed. However the

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