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Welcome back to Knock-On Podcast and as I promised I'm going to get a few more of these out.

Now that seasons kicked off again and got my mind on shooting, hunting, everything in between.

So I've been getting a few different questions here and there. Several of them were on subjects here recently that I thought I'd cover on the podcast just because I think a lot of you out there that are listening right now are in the process of setting up your gear and getting it ready.

We're only a few weeks away from some of the Midwestern hunting seasons here. A lot of the Western hunters have started.

But again, even though at times we're talking about specifically a hunter that might be asking the question, these are all questions that are relative to target archery as well.

And really when it comes to tuning a bow or setting up your bow or tuning arrows or even just the product opinions or reviews, it's all relative and it's all archery.

So the first question I have here came in from Paul Collins and he said, you know, he said, I see that you're shooting a four-fletch setup right now on your hunting arrows.

And he said, I've always been curious, is it a better setup than a three-fletch arrow or is it just better for stability?

And honestly, you know, I keep saying this time and time again, but each and every year I'd really try to focus on experimenting with a lot of different options to see what gives me the best results.

One person that I see in the industry that does this every year just like I do and usually posts it as well and kind of shows you a few different results.

It is Dan Evans from Trophy Takeer. And Dan pretty much does the same exact thing as I do. You know, we get several different arrows. We kind of decide which bow we want, get different arrows.

And then once we narrow down the arrow that's probably given us the speed that we want or the kinetic that we want or overall is just given us a decent grouping result.

From there, you really try to fine tune it with the fletchings and you have to factor in what type of hunting you're going to go to.

And this is the exact same thing that I used to do for target archery because there were times where if I knew I was going to a certain course that might have been shorter in distance and also really well contained from the wind, I wouldn't have any hesitation shooting a slightly longer fletch.

Whereas if I'm at an event where I know there's going to likely be wind or in places where I know that we're going to be shooting longer distances and that wind can be a factor, then I would always try to go to a shorter vein profile just because it would minimize wind drift.

Now with my arrows this year, I've had to experiment quite a bit just because of my poundage being so much lower than it ever has. So I'm having to try totally new categories of arrows and everything in between.

So what I first tried was the three inch vein, you know, just a three inch low profile vein AAE 260 Elite.

And it, I mean, it's shot fine. It's shot good. And I also tried a two inch high profile vein.

The shorter profile vein probably shot just a little bit better for me. And then what I did just just to see was I went ahead and did the four fletch.

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