does it matter which way arrows spin?

tabashir

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Bit late to this thread!

After watching the video from Paige showing the two bareshafts going in opposite directions, the thought popped up is that if the dynamic spine of the arrow can actually alter the 'natural' spin direction, then surely when you fletch them, it will alter that since you are effectively stiffening them slightly, so it could be that for some arrows, the bareshaft spins differently to the initial spin of the fletched.

In my mind this would make it impossible to tell from bareshafts which direction you should fletch the arrows.

For most of us archers this means, that you can go with whichever turn you fancy as you'll never be able to tell the difference!

For the pros, then they would fletch both ways and test with thousands of arrows which works best and I would guess that most of them likely do this during their prep in any case.
 
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