fletching type...
#1
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: florida
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fletching type...
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.
iwas wondering what y'all thought of them verses regular vanes (plastic and feathers),...thanks in advance.
#3
RE: fletching type...
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.
If you Search the Blazers there has been lots posted on them...and everything I'm reading is positive.
#4
RE: fletching type...
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.
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Bandera, Texas
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RE: fletching type...
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]
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2006
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RE: fletching type...
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.
#7
Nontypical Buck
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Location: Bandera, Texas
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RE: fletching type...
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.
#8
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RE: fletching type...
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! [:'(]), I shoot lots of different bows, lots of different ways andfor lots of different reasons. Feathers are versatile enough to accomodate all my shooting.
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! [:'(]), I shoot lots of different bows, lots of different ways andfor lots of different reasons. Feathers are versatile enough to accomodate all my shooting.
#9
Fork Horn
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RE: fletching type...
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.
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Bandera, Texas
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RE: fletching type...
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]