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Old 07-24-2008 | 07:00 PM
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I just picked up my new Gold Tips and had blazer vanes put on. I shot and paper tuned and am now shooting bullet holes. My concern is when I got home from the archery shop is when I draw back and release the one vane on the cable side (right handed = right side) just barely grazes the cable, should I be concerned?
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Old 07-24-2008 | 07:12 PM
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I would say ...Yes, anytime you have fletchings touching it would be a concern for me. I bought some new ones last year (GT's)and they didn't have any shafts that weren't fletched, so I wound up with them too. I was having issues with the clearance....They stick out farther from the shaft than a normal vane or feather,I didn't sweat it long and went back to feathers...
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Old 07-24-2008 | 07:40 PM
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Try an after market cable slide. I think some of them keep the cable a little tighter to the cable guard. This might provide enough extra clearence to solve your problem. Good luck.
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Old 07-24-2008 | 08:15 PM
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Try an after market cable slide. I think some of them keep the cable a little tighter to the cable guard. This might provide enough extra clearence to solve your problem. Good luck.
I had to do that, it worked good.
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Old 07-24-2008 | 08:43 PM
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I had clearence trouble with Blazers on my X Force, but I was able to turn the cable rod a little (which moved the cable further away) and solve the problem. Can you move / adjust the cable rod?
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Old 07-24-2008 | 09:01 PM
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I had issues when I put blazers on my GT ultra 22 series. I just had to twist the nock a bit....with a drop away rest it was no big deal.
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Old 07-25-2008 | 06:45 AM
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yeh I was gonna say...just turn the nock a little if you are shooting a drop away.
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Old 07-25-2008 | 07:36 AM
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i'm shooting a prong style rest...i'm going to go the archery shop tonight and have them look at it
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Old 07-25-2008 | 02:47 PM
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Have them fix the problem, there is no reason you should have any clearance problems with standard vanes on your arrows!
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Old 07-25-2008 | 07:05 PM
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I thought it was proven that blazers had the same height as normal vanes!?!
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