I think the feathers have been pretty well talked over. I think sooner or later, you could regret permanently glueing those inserts in. I just had a few shafts I found in the back of the closet that had the tips siezed into the inserts. Not sure what caused it, but they were buried in there for a long time. If the inserts would not have been installed with hot melt, I' d be out 4 shafts right now. Besides that senario, I like to aline all my broadhead blades the same way. They don' t have to match the feathers or vanes, they just have to all look the same. I prefer to have one blade straight up at full draw. I know I' m just being picky, but I couldn' t do that without hot melt.