 left or right
Ascham suggested you should have some arrows with left wing fletches and some with right. He thought that you needed to pick the wing according to the wind, and that you shouldn't have the feather and wind going the same way or "the shaft will be caryed to much". I do not know of any modern support for this theory. However I do seem to recall that if you spin a cylinder in an airflow, a low pressure side is created so perhaps there is something in it. I just don't think my archery is good enough to need this level of refinement!!!!
tom |