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Author Topic: shooting with vanes  (Read 299 times)

Offline pj starrett

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shooting with vanes
« on: November 25, 2009, 05:25:00 PM »
I know ive seen some guys do it so today i was out shooting my martin rebel and I had some arrows with vanes on them.  They shot almost identical to my feathers.

Offline shakeyslim

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Re: shooting with vanes
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2009, 05:50:00 PM »
you gotta be doing something right! / feathers have worked best for me / but shoot what works best for you is way to do it !
a hippie taught me to hunt
i left 1971 way back in 1971

Offline SERGIO VENNERI

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Re: shooting with vanes
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2009, 05:52:00 PM »
I Shoot vanes from my recurve bows , use 4-41/2 shield cut Marco vanes with the small para Rests. Fly great and no weather problems!

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Re: shooting with vanes
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2009, 05:54:00 PM »
Hi, PJ. Good luck on your day hunts. Looking forward to thepics.

Bisch

Offline pj starrett

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Re: shooting with vanes
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2009, 06:20:00 PM »
Thanks Bisch, i need all the luck i can get brother.

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Re: shooting with vanes
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2009, 08:00:00 PM »
I found that vanes build up a memory and are not as forgiving off the shelf as feathers are.my opinion only.
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Offline woodchucker

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Re: shooting with vanes
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2009, 08:34:00 PM »
I have had good luck shooting vanes right off the shelf of my Mikuta longbow. They were cheap Game Getter aluminiums without the uni-nocks and were fletched for cock vane down(for the forked rests on wheely bows)

I put the cock vane up and they flew GREAT!!!!!   :thumbsup:
I only shoot WOOD arrows... My kid makes them, fast as I can break them!

There is a fine line between Hunting, & Sitting there looking Stupid...

May The Great Spirit Guide Your Arrows..... Happy Hunting!!!

Offline ron w

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Re: shooting with vanes
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2009, 08:36:00 AM »
I saw a video, Masters of the Barebow maybe, Fred Echlier shot vanes cock feather in and got good arrow flite. He said he kept one in the quiver in case he got rained on.I gave it a try and in seemed to work fine.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few...So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind...This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.  Shunryu Suzuki

Offline Stone Knife

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Re: shooting with vanes
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2009, 06:21:00 PM »
I shoot three four inch off a flipper rest on my Titan. Cock out you can spray foot powder on them to check your clearance, if the touch at all it will show.
Proverbs 12:27
The lazy do not roast any game,
but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.


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