Turkey feathers or blazer vanes

Thought about going too turkey feathers instead of blazer vanes anyone had any luck with feathers or should I stick too my blazers

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I never cared for blazer. Inconsistent - loud - tall.

Nothing will steer your BH better that Trueflight feathers but they have drawbacks too. Need water proofing (simple) - loud to the touch - noisy in flight when damaged.

Flexfletch (FFP-360) on most of my arrows - 4" feathers on the rest of them.

 

I would look at a longer plastic vane before feathers... They are way more durable!! I don't think there is any reason to shoot feathers out of a compound for hunting purposes unless you shoot a trad. I like the AAE max stealths personally. They're a 3 inch vane, crazy durable, and steer like no ones business. Theres probably people out there that will disagree with me but I like bomb proof designs and the feather just isn't.

 

I've used blazers, AAE 4 inch and feathers 3,4,5 inch feathers. I don't like blazers. That said it comes down to durability and what you want. I agree that feathers are much less durable. They are also much more expensive. However, I have never found anything as consistent as 3- 4" helical feathers from a coumpound. I don't hunt in heavy rain and have never had to waterproof feathers. They are less noisy than vanes when damaged and will still fly good with pieces missing. I can see feathers in flight better than anything I've shot other than lighted nocks. I enjoy the arrow buiding process and fletch and refletch all my arrows for compound and trad bows. I'll probably always shoot feathers but if I had to shoot vanes I'd shoot AAE 3 or 4 inch. Good luck.

 

Thanks for the advice guys made the switch over too trueflight feathers, but I really like them little more expensive but overall there great my broadheads never flew as straight as they do now, can't wait for that buck too stop by now,


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Have used the 2 inch Rayzr feathers for quite a few years and prefer them over any vane. fly like darts. an added bonus is feathers are 1/3 the weight of vanes so there's an increase in FOC.

 

Some of my arrows blow threw the Target now ,can't wait for that pass threw on that big old buck now.

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