birds of a feather............

I use bouth plastic and feathers; it depends if i' m looking for a heavier arrow or a lighter one. When I use feathers I use a 4" eliptical and for the weather I always use 3COM Schotch Gard, you can find this product in any Store and it doesnt cost much, and one good thing is that it' s odorless.




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On my traditional bows, all I use are feathers. But on my compound, I use vanes. I have had bad experiences with feathers getting wet or absorbing moisture. It doesn' t take much to through off the FOC and effect arrow flight. I won' t argue that feathers are more durable, or are more forgiving then vanes because they are. Around here though, I am ussually hunting in rain or snow about 50% of the time. So vanes just make sense. I also like the quiteness of the vanes compared to feathers, and I can honestly say that I have never had feathers fly as quiet as vanes. I got some turbo nocks the other day that I plan on giving a try. They look aweful goofy, and I can' t imagine them working as well as fletchings, but I will try them out. They are suppose to start spinning the arrow much more quicker then any helical out there.

I shoot vanes with as great an off set as I can possibly put on them now that I shoot a Trophy Taker. I get incredible flight and none of the in-flight noise associated with feathers......gotta say though, that an arrow that is crested and has feathers is a thing of beauty.....right now I shoot 3 white vanes and a white nock.....pretty boring.....

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Carolina Archery Products makes something they call No-Snow specifically for keeping your feathers dry. It isn' t just silicone either, but it does keep the feathers dry.Lots of people think they made this stuff for the whisker biscuit but the biscuits don' t need it the feathers do.

Quit putting yer darn arrows where I want to shoot!

I use feathers for hunting. As already stated, there are several products available to help protect feathers from getting wet.

And if it is raining hard enough to still get them wet, it is raining too hard to shoot past 15-20 yards anyhow.

I' ve always used feathers but I' m thinking about trying vanes this year. Mostly because I' m getting another dozen that come with factory vanes and I' m too lazy to strip them all and refletch them Once they wear out I' ll probably do like Arthur and go back to feathers.

Arthur P,

Thanks for the tip....I' ll give that a try next tiem I have some sticks with feathers!

I use both. Mostly for hunting I use a 4" Duravane & 3-D duravanes for target. I will say I will always have a certain love affair with feathers, nothing says archery like a feather on a shaft! But for hunting I will stick to vanes.