Originally Posted by
Valentine
for newbies; the infrequent practicer; the infrequent user of shooting an arrow out of a bow.
The theory is if the hunter isn't going to practice much, the cost of some plastic 'vanes' will get covered.
I mean if you only shoot ten arrows a year, spending money on a fletcher might seem like a lot of money.
These manufacturers have newbie stuff down cold.
I shoot about 500 arrows a week, fletch my ow arrows a lot.
( we have a lot of archers and a small range so things get shot in a bunch a lot...)
But they do have a marketing strategy that works and a product that matches their words.
Just to show, yesterday I had a small competition with some of the guys at the range.
At 50 yards/metres I shot FOBs and one guy shot blazers, one guy quickspins. The total distance between three of our arrows was measured. So you just connected the dots from one arrow closed to another. I had a distance of 1cm and 6cm while the others had 4 and 6, and 7 and 5.
We repeated the same game a few times and the grouping of the FOBS allways came out on top. The other two were target shooters and non hunters.