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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: anw0625 on August 04, 2012, 01:01:00 PM
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Do any of you guys use vanes instead of feathers? Have you tried the range-o-matic vanes?
Thanks for all your help!
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Most vane shooters use elevated rest for clearance. Fairly popular in areas where it rains often.
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I always liked feathers(and goose feathers for water or silicone spray), if vanes make contact with the shelf on a regular basis shooting they will get a wavy edge to them, feathers are more forgiving all around.JMHO
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You will get some flack for using vanes but they work well off an elevated rest. I shoot them off my bow set up with a flipper rest and they fly good and in a driving rain they just laugh ;)
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I use them both. I use all kinds of vanes...Blazers, Fusions, QuikSpins to steer my Abowyers or Snuffers. I hunt in a lot of places where I can't pick the weather I hunt in and it is tough to dry my feathers out in a tiny tent in Alaska.
If you look closely at the shafts in my quiver with this bear, you can see a mix of feathers and vanes. I shot and killed this bear with a feathered shaft about a half hour after a soaking rain. A few more minutes of rain and the feathers would have been soaked enough for me to switch out to one of the vaned shafts.
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b351/osminski/2012%20Manitoba%20Bear/Favorite.jpg)
They both shoot well off an elevated rest.