My experience. Stock fletching from the factory fletched Gold Tip arrows last damn near forever. When re-fletching my arrows (mostly damaged from other arrows) I use Bohning vanes. They also last a LONG time. I shoot a minimum of 24 arrows a day in the winter and up to a 100 arrows a day in the summer. I currently have 24 arrows that I bought in June. I have probably shot 5000 shots since then with this group of arrows out of the WB and 20 of the 24 still have the original GT vanes on them.