Vanes for your arrows

[anw0625]

Do any of you guys use vanes instead of feathers?  Have you tried the range-o-matic vanes?
Thanks for all your help!

[BWD]

Most vane shooters use elevated rest for clearance. Fairly popular in areas where it rains often.

[lpcjon2]

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

[Stone Knife]

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  

[Steve O]

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.

 

They both shoot well off an elevated rest.