Figuring out exactly what fletching type, number, and orientation gives the absolute best arrow flight for your bow setup and hunting style can sometimes seem like rocket science. And that’s ...

Brands aside, you’ve also got choices today between micro and standard diameters, heavy arrows or light, carbon or aluminum – or both – pre-fletched or bare shafts, and on and on. Instead of choosing ...

Neolithic archers in southern Iberia were true masters of their craft, as evidenced by the discovery of Europe’s oldest known bowstring and fletched arrows. Found in a cave near Granada ...

Where do most mass-produced, pre-made hunting arrows struggle? Most fail to offer a true “helical” fletch with today’s shorter, stiffer, two- to three-inch modern vanes. And why is this important? As ...

An arrow with four lower-profile vanes, however, is a tad quieter. Jace Bauserman I shoot a four-fletch arrow. Why? Because testing with a high-definition microphone has proven to me that four low ...

Otzi carried 14 arrows in his quiver, but only two had arrowheads and feather fletching. Photo courtesy of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/H. Wisthaler Ötzi the Iceman never had a chance to ...

Medieval arrows were fletched, which put a spin on the projectile to make it more accurate and stable during flight. But this could be the first evidence that the arrow was fletched deliberately ...