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which ones do y'all use....i just got a dozen of mine refletched recently with the blazers (?: short more round ones)..forgot to ask the name of them)
iwas wondering what y'all thought of them verses regular vanes (plastic and feathers),...thanks in advance.

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I have some fletched with the Blazer broadhead vanes and some fletched with 4" feathers. I prefer feathers.

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fl.huntress, I just fletched a dozen ACC's with the 2" Blazers and the only shooting I've done so far is testing several bows...they fly great...

If you Search the Blazers there has been lots posted on them...and everything I'm reading is positive.

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I shoot 5" feathers. Well, should I say, used to. I love my feathers. But, I decided to give the blazers a shot. I shot a feathered arrow, then the blazer arrow. I shot the feather off of the previous. They fly very well. No complaints here. They are now on all of my arrows. Impervious to moisture and they stabilize every bit as well.

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I fletch my own using the wing feathers of the turkeys I shoot. Gateway feathers offers once a year to cut them down for .22 a piece or so. You can even trade like left wing feathers for right wing feathers, meaning if you have a dozen right wing cut to order and have left ones you trade it to them for cutting the right ones. Got some fletched up now, and will use them, say once i get out of here....... they look so good on the shaft and knowing that they came from a bird I shot, it is pride in the shot.......[8D]

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feathers 4" shot the blazers (guy said itd gain speed) 2-5fps slower every time feathers are just unreal. half of the feather missing, no big deal, still shoots straight. my accuracy was a heck of alot better switching to feathers.

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bradkoz, have to agree, my feathers take a beating through my WB and still fly and if i wanted I could keep using them. Was having trouble with vanes, so now I will only use feathers for flight and lasting power.

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I tested Blazers for the shop I was shooting for. I found theywork as long as you stick to mechanicals or smaller fixed blade heads, like no bigger than 1 1/8" diameter. Put on a bigbroadhead with unvented blades, like a Magnus I or Zwicky Delta, and they can't handle it.

I'veonly gotten them towork on carbon, too. They're not worth a flip on a 2315. [:-]

Blazers are not nearly as versatile as feathers are but, as long as you've got 'em fletched with adequate offset and if you stay within their capabilities, they are okay. No way they stabilize as well as feathers though.

Feathers let me shoot field points for practice. Broadheads for anythingjackrabbit size and bigger. Judo's and blunts for cottontail size and smaller. Snaro's for quail and dove... Big broadheads, small broadheads, in-between broadheads... Vented or unvented blades... Carbon, fiberglass, aluminum or wood arrows... Compound, recurve, longbow or selfbow... Off atricked out arrowrest, or off the shelfor off my knuckle...

Rather than just being a guy who shoots one specific kind of setup and only hunts one specific animal (specialists! :eek:[:'(]), I shoot lots of different bows, lots of different ways andfor lots of different reasons. Feathers are versatile enough to accomodate all my shooting.

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i shot over 1500 shots (probably more like 2000) with my arrows this year and i still could have shot them more but i just had some feathers left from fletching other peoples arrows and had the time so i put new ones on. they are very duarable.

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yepper dont need to replace them, but sort of personal thing. I take the ones off that I have used all season for practice and re-wrap and fletch them, those now are the hunting arrows for fall, guess I feel that the deer deserve the best I got if i take them. Then I take last seasons hunting and they become practice arrows. Now I shoot the new ones several times with broad heads to verify everything and even shoot the old ones with broadheads, as a back up should I need them. Guess I have them on a rotational schedule! [8D]

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I just put my Jo-Jan away after refletching a 1/2 dozen of my Axis STs. I put 2" Blazers on with a right helical. The vanes I took off were 2" Blazers with no offset or helical. My arrows flew great with the old vanes that were on the shafts the day I bought them but I really wanted to try with an offset. That is the only reason I changed them. I have shot them hundreds of times and they were like new. Blazers are tough and I like how they fly with both my feild tips and my Muzzy's. One arrow has passed through 2 hogs and those blazers were still in great shape after I washed the blood off.

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I haven't tried the Blazers yet. I've meant to, just haven't. Duravanes with a right helical or feathers with a right helical. The feathers are just great. All there is to it. I bought some Quickspins but after reading more about them haven't even put them on. Probably won't.

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Both blazers and duravanes and those like them always work good in all types of weather. Feathersworkfine ingood weather but with rain or coldconditions over time (like a week long elk hunt) theyseem to have problems no matter what you try to protect them with.Right now I am a big fan of the quickspins!

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thanks y'all...i feel much better.

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[&:]not sure I feel better with all the talk about blazers I feel old fashion or out of touch! [&o]

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I'll never use any other vane's ,I love these Blazer's they're much lighter and they fly awsome ,they stabilize my arrow's during flight just as well as my 4" vane's did .

nubo

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I Guess I will chime in with my 2cents.I bought 2 sets of blazers
to try but after shooting them with my 4 inch I am a believer!!
I called the dealer I bought mine from he is now sold out of white
ones[:@]. O well I will be shooting them.I have 2, 4 inch fletched
they shoot the same place so I will leave them alone.But the rest will be BLAZERS!!!