Spinwings left or right

[jthain]

The ones that came on the arrows appeared to be straight and the new ones are straight.
Maybe I should have put a wee bit of offset like Murray has done with his spinwings.

[Murray]

Originally Posted by bimble

...arrows rotate naturally from finger release...

B*ll*cks It is the drag force on the fletchings which rotates the arrow. If you shoot a bareshaft, there may be some natural rotation, but it's negligible.

[joetapley]

I've shot both both left and right handed spin wings (right handed) attached straight with no apparent difference. There is a marginal clearance issue, which normally shouldn't matter but if your very tight on clearance it might. If you offset the spin wing then it does matter as you always offset a fletching in the direction to maximise clearance and obviously the rotation sense of the offset and the natural direction of the spin wing need to be in the same direction.

[jthain]

Thanks everyone for clearing that up, but Murray what has bullocks got to do with it

[Cimbian]

Originally Posted by bimble

My coach and I were talking about this and whether lefties would be able to shoot Quikspins (righthand only). He was saying that as the arrows rotate naturally from finger release if you try to cause them to spin the "wrong" way with fletchings you end up with arrows who's momentum is going one way and the vanes are trying to make them go the other. This in turn causes fishtailing and not very good flight.

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