Honestly, this got twisted into something like a Ford vs. Chevy argument, with one guy saying "I just prefer Fords" and the other saying "You're wrong for liking Fords because......" What ever happened to personal choice?

I shoot feathers because I like them. I've shot full vanes and blazers, and just prefer feathers. I can miss or hit just as easily with either, and I seriously doubt either event was keyed to the type of fletch. I have 5" feathers on my huntin' arrows and 4" on my target arrows. Why? I don't know, it's just my preference. I'd like to believe that the additional wing area on the 5" means a bit more stability in flight, but truth be told, it doesn't really matter to me, it's my choice. Does that make me wrong? not if I'm satisfied, and the results work for me.

Each of my three sons are better archers than I am, and they shoot blazers. But guess what? They shoot feathers with just as much accuracy. Ask them why they shoot blazers rather than feathers and they'll give the same answer as me, "I just like them better." Does anything really matter beyond that?

In our local indoor paper league, two of the top three finishers shoot feathers. The top two make heart shots on animal targets 38 out of 45 tries a night, from up to 25 yards: one shoots feathers and the other shoots blazers. The feathers shooter is pretty well known to me, and trust me when I say that if he honestly thought he could go 45/45 by switching to blazers, he would have done it long ago. (Likewise with the blazers shooter.)

I think it's a bit of a reach to say that blazers "take the human error out of the arrow", because that sounds a bit absolute to me. What's the other kind of error, shall we call it mechanical? Okay, mechanical errors are going to be relatively fixed, and once those are compensated for, the repeatability should be somewhere close to 100%. The only thing that keeps every indoor archer from X-ing 100% of the time, then, is "human error".

Maybe it's like golf balls. Some people prefer Titleist, some prefer Maxfli. But a good score always comes down to putting, where the design of the ball is almost 100% minimized, and it's all up to the individual.