Ok guys just a quick question before I place my order here at Bowhunting.com. With a Whisker Biscuit and 2' Blazer Vanes I can only have straight helical correct? Someone I spoke with at (cough) Cabela's said "The only choice I have is straight helical offset to like 1 degree and feathers won't last through a biscuit after a few shots stay with blazers." I am fine with that but it's Cabela's I wanted to see what some of your thoughts were. Shooting set up in my sig. Thanks!
http://www.trophyridge.com/arrow-rests/whisker-biscuit/ The makers of the whisker biscuit say this: Does the Whisker Biscuit Arrow Rest® work with plastic vanes, or only with feathers? The Whisker Biscuit Arrow Rest ® works equally well with vanes or feathers. Speed loss will be the same, but the dynamics are different. Feathers lie down presenting a lower but wider profile to the bristles. Vanes stand up straight but pass through close to the base of the bristles where they are more densely packed together. The result is that both vanes and feathers fly at the same speed and accuracy at hunting distances. http://www.trophyridge.com/service/faq/
Link is broken, I think I get the drift more importantly now is teh helical question. Thanks brucelanthier for the response.
I would use a helical fletch. Maybe not an offset helical like I use with a drop away but I would still use a helical.
I looked for that on their website earlier and couldn't find any fletch orientation recommendation. Where do they make this recommendation?
Yeh I would think a straight 1 deg would be optimum..but what the hell do i know?? I think my arrow flies to the target crooket! when it is not! LOL! shouldn't have taken all those hits of acid in my teens!! J/k!!! never touched the stuff!
Helical on a Blazer isn't really helical. The 2" fletchings aren't long enough to really begin to twist much. I fletch mine Left Helical with my WB....works perfectly fine - and I personally think it does better than an offset, because that tiny bit of twist that is just starting may help get the arrow spinning a tad sooner than offset would. Bottom line, either way is fine if you are shooting 2" fletch of any type.