I've owned literally 7 bowtechs and never had a stock cable slide fail, and I've never personally heard a first hand account of one failing. I typically changed them out for a Hicks slide within a few thousand shots of buying those bows, but never had one fail and I've got a good combined 10,000 shots on stock slides between those various bows. I have however had 6 different Mathews bows with the roller guards, and 2x of those failed me and had to be taken apart and cleaned or replaced. One of those the cable kept hopping off the track completely and caused damage to the cables.

Both are great bows but trust me when I say the cable slide Bowtech supplies is fine and a quality piece. It's just not designed for a super high profile vane type(like the Blazer) pointing almost straight at the cables. If you do shoot the Blazer vanes, you either turn the nock so that it is slightly angled like mentioned above, and if you have to use one of the very fewrest types thatwon't accomodate(because they don't drop fast enough) this you buy a $5 slide.