What feathers do you guys use??

[JTeLarkin08]

I am shooting some beman 500s with a 150 gr tip cut 30 inches.. I have just regular 5 inch feathers right now.. But some of yalls feathers look bigger.. I was curious what yall use

[trad"Doc"53]

I generally use 5" shield cut or parabolic. Sometimes I like fletching some up with 5.5" banana cut.

[Bisch]

3-4" parabolics on all my arows (except flu-flus; they are a little bigger). I like AMG brand.

Bisch

[JTeLarkin08]

what is a parabolic?? also do yall do right or left hylical

[Bisch]

what is a parabolic?? also do yall do right or left hylical

Parabolic is just a shape of feather. here is a pic with all the different feather cuts or shapes:



I use right helical but it really does not matter unless you are using single bevel broadheads. Then you need to match the feather helical to the broadhead bevel.

Bisch

[JTeLarkin08]

oh ok.. Ya thats what shape im using.. Im using 5 inch..

[roninrus1]

4" Shield True Flight.
Had problems w/Gateway feathers tearing up.

[Ol Man]

4" Shield cuts - love trueflight the best.

[Live2Hunt]

3-5.5" Trueflight Banana cut feathers for me. 2 hen in white and 1 cock in natural barred.

[Ron]

5" Shields, right helical.

[SCRUBBUCK]

I like 5" shield, but nothing wrong with parabolic. Sorry fellows I prefer Gateway over Trueflight. I find them to be more durable on alluminum. The spine is a little thicker on gateways, but maybe on woodies or carbons trueflight may be better.

[williey00]

4 inch sheild,trueflight,right helical

[Deb]

4" parabolic on my woods and 5" shields on my carbons. Right helical on the shields and straight up on the woods.

[jerp]

I read somewhere that shield cut feathers are louder as they fly downrange - true? I like they way they look but do they "whoosh"?

[Thunderwolf13]

I shoot 5" shield cuts, and yes they do make noise while flying. But im wierd cuz that is one of the things i like about them. lol. I love hearing the arrow zip towards the target.