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Fletching - What do you use? Why? As a kid I always used those 4 inch feathers, then again at that time 180 fps speeds were "blistering". Now it seems like everyone is using Blazer vanes (me included) but I've not played with other products. I read this and it got me to thinking. Wondering what the folks here used, why/how they got to that point etc.
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I like blazers for 2 reasons. 1) they stabilize the arrow better IMO. A little bendin a 4 inch vane will effect the arrows flight path. 2) noise reduction. I've stood close to a target (out of harms way) and listened while a 4" vaned arrow and a 2" blazer vaned arrow were shot from the same bow. The 4" vaned arrow made much more noise flying 30 yards to the target.
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I shoot Blazers too, another reason is durability, my bow will bury the veins in a block or similar target on occasion, I have to pull the arrows on through the target out the backside, the Blazers hold up very well when this happens.
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I use 4 inch Plastic Vanes with my Compound Bows and five inch feathers with my Longbows .
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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5" shield cut feathers out of recurves.
2" Blazers out of compounds.
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5" shield cut feathers out of recurves.
2" Blazers out of compounds. Similar here. 5" shield from full length feathers burned to shape on stick bows. On compounds, (4) 1.5" Blazers fletched with a helical clamp on a Bitzenberger jig.
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I'm shooting 2.1 fusions now. Shot blazers with no issues. I just like the looks of fusions over blazers. They are just as durable and I think they steer broadheads just as good.
"A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph or otherwise outwit birds or animals is hardly normal. He is supercivilized, and I for one do not know how to deal with him." ~ Aldo Leopold
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I use FOB's because they are simple to use, work great in cold weather, and making tuning your bow a snap.
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I use FOB's because they are simple to use, work great in cold weather, and making tuning your bow a snap. +1 FOBS are the real deal.
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