The switch that I made to plastic vanes last year is going to be a one year experiment. I had success with them, taking the only deer that I shot at, but I was never very happy with vanes. I don' t understand why they are supposedly more durable than feathers. I can shoot my feathers with the feathers in bad shape, but if I got one little nick in the plastic vanes that arrow was done until it could be repaired. I guess it' s all in what you like, and I like feathers.