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Hey everybody this is PJ Reilly from Lancaster Archery. Today what we're gonna

do is fletch our arrows that we've got for hunting. Our Black Eagle Rampage 300.

We're just gonna fletch them up and show you how that process works and put some

wraps on them. What you want to keep in mind with fletching, kind of the industry

standard today, is a two-inch high profile vein this is what you're gonna

see on most arrows. Nine times out of ten that's gonna be that's gonna work for

whitetail bow hunters in the woods treestands shooting twenty yards or so.

If you want to make sure that you have the most accurate setup you're gonna

want to experiment there are fletchings of all different shapes and sizes and

different lengths. This one here is 2.25 inches. It's a lower profile and look. In

here we've got a three-inch parabolic. This one here is about two and a half

inches and it's called a heat vane. It's of extra stiff material so there's all

different kinds of fletchings out there. And what you want to do is play with

them, try different combinations see what works best for your setup. Everybody's

going to be different. Something's gonna work you know for one guy may work

differently for another. What I like to use this is the Last Chance

Archery Vane Master Pro. This is kind of the Cadillac of fletching jigs.

But with this fletching jig I can do everything. So we I can do left or right

offset left or right helical. I can do either with this jig. I've got different

knobs that I can put in as you can see here. I can do a three vane fletch or I

can also switch out some components and I can do four fletch to try. And you know

just to experiment try different things not all fletching jigs give you that

versatility. The Vane Master Pro of course does. There are others that give

you that versatility as well, but my point is I want you to be able to

play with some different things so that you can find a good setup for your bow.

As I mentioned about helical and offset in our previous video, we determined that

my arrows spin counterclockwise so I want to set my fletching jig with a left

helical and left offset. I want my vanes to sit to the left so that my arrow, it

just encourages my arrow to keep spinning to the left. So what I've preset

here is I've got my fletching jig set up with a 4 degree left helical we're going

to begin our process with a wrap. We've got a Lancaster Archery Supply arrow wrap.

A lot of guys are using these today. What's the benefit of it? Well carbon if

you were to glue vanes directly on to the carbon and then let's say one comes

off, where you want to change vanes or something like that you peel it off you

start sanding it down. Eventually you can gouge into the carbon and over time.

That's gonna put undue wear on your arrows you don't want that. With a wrap

you can just peel the wrap off and the fletching comes with it and then your

shaft underneath is untouched. It's perfect. So we like to use wraps. Besides

that they're neat, you can customize your arrows so they look unique to you. You can

see here, we're going to use white that's going to make this arrow - it's going to

make it really stand out. You know it show us what kind of blood we've got when

you get a pass-through shot. And I'm gonna line it up just below the nock. This is a

perfect surface. This is like a carpeted surface so I can push down on to it. If

you do it on a hard surface it's not it doesn't work quite as well. So you can

get a pad or you can do it on the carpet at home and also I'm going to do is line

up and I'm kind of pressing down as I roll the vane on you can see there I get

a perfect wrap then I'm gonna bring over to my fletching jig.

I'm gonna set this in. I want to make sure I don't roll over the seam. Get

yourself a good fletching glue. Here this stuff sets really fast - this Maxi-cure.

And I'm just gonna put a thin bead. You don't want too much glue but

you need enough right down the center. I want to make sure I got a nice solid

line of glue set on here. As you like to just press and hold together for a 10

count and then this glue is so fast setting that I could just after a 10

count I can remove my jig spin the arrow move to the next one. Make sure I clean

off my arms there. Just to keep the vane from sticking to this fletching jig. I said

it's got different dials for 3 vane and 4 vane and whichever one

you want... when you rotate the arrow it's going to

click and it's going to perfectly space those vanes apart. So that you know

you're getting the correct adhesion for your vanes to the arrow. You can have

them in the right placement around the shaft. We've got lots of different

fletching jigs at Lancaster Archery Supply on our website LancasterArchery.com

you can go there and pick out whichever one you think will work for

you. And there you have it. You've got a perfectly spaced fletching job there. And

you can see we have a left offset that's 4 degrees left.

I also put a helical. Incidentally helical means that it's curving the vein

around the shaft rather than just simply placing it straight on the shaft at an

offset. That's what the offset is doing. It just turns it to one side sets

it on helical kind of curves it around just gives it a little more spin in the

arrow shaft. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube page so you can see videos like

this and lots of other things pertaining to archery. And as always if you have any

questions you can visit us at LancasterArchery.com