On my traditional bows, all I use are feathers. But on my compound, I use vanes. I have had bad experiences with feathers getting wet or absorbing moisture. It doesn' t take much to through off the FOC and effect arrow flight. I won' t argue that feathers are more durable, or are more forgiving then vanes because they are. Around here though, I am ussually hunting in rain or snow about 50% of the time. So vanes just make sense. I also like the quiteness of the vanes compared to feathers, and I can honestly say that I have never had feathers fly as quiet as vanes. I got some turbo nocks the other day that I plan on giving a try. They look aweful goofy, and I can' t imagine them working as well as fletchings, but I will try them out. They are suppose to start spinning the arrow much more quicker then any helical out there.