I’d ask what your arrow set up and use case. I can’t speak to 3D or target shooting but for hunting I’ve used AAE Max Stealth as well with excellent results. My arrow setup was around 650gr with about 17% foc and they flew light darts.
Pretty sure I have seen blazer feathers..
A 5” trad cut traditional will have lots of drag and sound like a startled grouse.
Nothing wrong with vanes..
I was super interested in these but TAC are lighter and don’t have the memory issues.I would have recommended AAE Max Stealth and to use the full prep kit they sell. They have more surface area than a Blazer and stabilize my arrows very well with a helical and are quiet in flight.
HOWEVER, AAE just came out with this
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which is basically an improved version of the Max Stealth but needs no primer, wipes, and glue
I wish I didn't have a dozen with the older version on there, or I'd use these....kinda makes me wanna strip my vanes off but I won't
I was under the impression u wanna straight fletch feathers? Not sure if that's correct but that is what I do...the feather got natural curl correct? That's why we buy either right or left wingCut back on the helical and they quiet up as well.
I have a 3" chopper. Works nice as a 4 fletch.
I was under the impression u wanna straight fletch feathers? Not sure if that's correct but that is what I do...the feather got natural curl correct? That's why we buy either right or left wing
There's at least a couple different 2" feathers....gateway razor and trueflight are what i have used
Bloody/dirty birds are gateway and the clean 1s trueflight
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yes, and slow them down. However you can get significant stabilization from feathers with a big helical. Ages ago we shot big feathers, first on lincoln log aluminums and later on beman hunters. Even on a poorly tuned bow with finger releases and lots of shelf contact, a 5" feather with a full helical will stabilize it. When I first got into archery hunting and my dad got back into it he was shooting an old Browning x-cellerator with the wood riser and a stick on arrow rest like you'd have on a recurve. 29" or 30" 2216's with a 125 rocky mountain 3 blade up front and 5" barred green/brown helical feathers. It was a strikingly pretty combo. It also had to arc them in like a missile as they were only doing about 180 fps. And that bow was 60 lb with 40% letoff. Might as well have been hunting with a good recurve. But those arrows flew straight.But isn't that gonna make em more noisy?
But isn't that gonna make em more noisy?
The hiss of death is sweet music and gives them pause to catch it in the riblets.But isn't that gonna make em more noisy?
I have some 2” feathers here that I hunted the year before last. Shooting them side by side with blazers and aae plastifletches, the feathers have that distinct whoosh as they fly. Blazers are pretty loud too. AAE and tac drivers are both quieter.It seems less prevalent with the shorter cuts. Just my observation.