Which vanes to use?
 

I' m going to put together some new Beman ACS arrows and wanted some recomendations between the Arizona, Bohning, or Easton plastic vanes. I' m switching from feathers to vanes this year. The glue I' ve used in the past is Bohning Bond-tite. Thanks for any help.

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Bohning vanes are relatively heavy duty and seem to last really well. I use bond-tite to fletch most plastic vanes to carbon. If you go with the AAE vanes or similar types, they have a reactant already on the vane. In that case fast-set gel works pretty well.

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From my experience, the Eastons and the Arizona are basically the same fletching. Except the arizona don' t have an emblem on it. I use the arizonas and have no problem with them at all.

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I have been using Arizonas for years and see no reason for me to change. very durable. I use a super glue type glue called Future Glue and it is a good combination.

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I had a friend fletch some of my arrows with Bohning vanes in the past. Very durable vanes. I do have some arrows fletched with Duravanes and these are also very durable with good flight. I shoot using the Whisker Biscuit and the Duravanes seem to hold up very well.

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I too prefer feathers, but there are oocasions where spine requirements necessitate vanes for my set-ups.

Duravanes (norways), AAE or " Arizonas" (And the Easton Diamonds which are made by AAE), are the most popular and are a rubber type vane. They are super easy to fletch and that I believe is the main reason they have become so popular. They do work pretty well, and are inexpensive.

Bohnings are fairly tough regarding arrow hits, but are stiff and deteriorate quickly.

The best vanes on the market are the Flex Fletch (and to a somewhat lesser extent the Mullen-Marco brand). They are a bit more time consuming to fletch (bases need to be cleaned throughly and a slow set glue like Saunders NPV, Flex Bond or Ambroid is needed), but they are nigh indestructible: shrugging off most arrow hits, and will zip through a target and come back to shape w/ no fiddling. Once glued on properly, they won' t come off. They are expensive though, almost rivaling the cost of feathers.

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My bow shop owner told me like this.....If birds had plastic wings, then use plastic vanes....However I purchased a couple arrows with plastic vanes for rainy weather. The vanes seem to group as well as the feathers... I don' t know anything about the glue and stuff though...

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I always used to use the Easton Vanes 4.75, but they recently stopped making them. As others have said, I can' t tell the difference between the Arizone AAE vanes and the Eastons. Except for the price. I use the Arizona 4.75 inch vane now pretty much exclusively on my compound anyway.

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I use the duraves on my 3D arrows and they work great. Goat tuff is the adhesive I use, and that stuff is awesome, pricey but awesome.

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i agree with reylamb duravanes and goat tuff,great combo

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Duravanes and Goat Tuff here too. Works super. I think the smallest bead of glue you can lay on works great. Never had one come off.

-Chief

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Goattuff & Duravanes here as well.

I used to use Bohning vanes but I like flourescent colors and for some reasons the base on the bohning colors would not take to the arrow shaft using Goattuff, which doesn' t happen with duravanes. Plus the Bohning vanes were not usable if you left them sit around more than 6 months.

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I' ve found the same as JeffB.

Flex-Fletch are the toughest things around, but you' ll pay a bit more for them. They can handle multiple passthroughs on a target that would' ve made other vanes unuseable. They have execptional resiliency.

Teamed up with their Flex-bond glue, they are one tough combo. Takes more time to fletch them, but worth it in the long run because you don' t have to replace the vanes as much.

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gotta go with 4 inch durvanes and goat tuff great combo

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I flecthed arrows for the first time this past weekend.I use duravanes.they did a great job.I also used AAE fasset gel.did a great job.used carbon 250 shafts.i put a 2 degree offset on them.they flew great the next ones i do i might try a 1 degree offset .keep them in the " X"

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gotta agree with Black Frog

flex fletch are the best. they are as tough as can be.
in two years of using them ive only had to refletch one arrow cause of a hole in the vane. That was because i was shooting broadheads.

like everyone else said though, they are kinda spendy, and you really have to prep the shafts before putting them on.

use flex bond glue and they won' t come off

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OK - so I just got my CXL250' s for 3d - and a pack of itty-bitty black flexfletch' s - I planned on using Goat-Tuff - and I know I have to clean the vanes with acetone - but - should I switch glues or should I use the Goat Tuff??

TIA!

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Duravanes rock, great product made by some great people.

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I have been using the easton diamonds 3.75 for several years with great success. They are the same as the AAE but they have the little " e" on them which I like even though they cost more. They are very easy to fletch with the aae fast set glue.....

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Durvanes Work Well For Me,with Saunders NPV.