Offsetting Blazer Vanes ???

[Cornfed]

Hey anyone out there have any experience fletching their blazers offset? .... by that I mean staggering them up the shaft from the nock about 1/2 the length of the vane. I briefly talked with Boyd at Buck Hollow a couple of years ago about this as he was shooting them some like this at the time. Maybe Boyd can chime in here if he sees this post....

I saw a video online where an archer was talking about the improved steering with this vane configuration... plus he claimed it was less affected by the wind?

I don't plan on messing with my vanes now during the season since everything is dialed in nicely... but would be worth considering in the offseason.

 

[jjohnson]

I've fletched them straight and I've fletched them with slight offsets. It don't take much of an offset. I've also fletched them with helical. You don't get much helical but any little bit will make them spin. Just make sure your getting good contact with the whole vane.

With an offset your arrows should fly better. All your doing is getting them to spin quicker thus correcting your arrow flight quicker.

I'm assuming this would also help with planing in windy situations.

You probably won't notice much if any difference at short distances but the quicker an arrow spins the better it will steer the arrow.

 

[iowabucks]

I'm still kinda green on the subject of building arrows. Just started building some this year, but i would think you would want at least a little bit of offset in any kind of fletchings to help stabilize the arrow.

 

[Full Quiver]

Somewhere I read about this (either in a mag or on Archerytalk). Did all kinds of test situations of regular fletching v. staggered fletching. Dont' rememeber a lot about it, but basically ended up saying there was not much difference in the two, I believe.

 

[Cornfed]

I know I did not do a very good job of explaining this... I am not referring to putting a slight helical or twist on the vane. I always do that to help the arrow spin.

What I am referring to is the vane is fletched with some helical or twist... then the next vane is fletched approx. 1/2 a vane length closer to the tip of the arrow... then the next one is 1/2 vane length closer still... so thus the vanes are not exactly side by side but staggered up the shaft, but fletched in their normal helical... I have read that this stabilizes the arrow even better than a larger vane but also is less affected by a cross wind.... now have I confused everyone?... or can you visualize what I am talking about? /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif