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Choosing a trad vane....

BackSpasm

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How do I wade through the trad archery vane options?

Real Feathers? Synthetic feathers? Synthetic trad vanes?

Parabolic cut? Shield cut?

Length??

I'm a little lost here and would like some general advice on how to go about getting a decent all-around option as a guy coming out of the compound world feeling a 'lil trad curious
 
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BackSpasm said:
How do I wade through the trad archery vane options?

Real Feathers? Synthetic feathers? Synthetic trad vanes?

Parabolic cut? Shield cut?

Length??

I'm a little lost here and would like some general advice on how to go about getting a decent all-around option as a guy coming out of the compound world feeling a 'lil trad curious
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Trad vanes are not trad.
 
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GCTerpfan said:
Agree with above. The only thought I put into feathers is typically "What's cheapest" and "What color can I see best in flight to tell where I hit" (white IMO).
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What wraps or paint are you using? I thought saw white wrap or paint with white canes from your shots the other day.
 
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BTaylor said:
You better pretty them thangs up, life's too short to shoot ugly arrows. ;)
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gcr0003 said:
What wraps or paint are you using? I thought saw white wrap or paint with white canes from your shots the other day.
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I think they are plenty pretty and cheap. :)
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The wraps are white reflective from onestringer. I used his custom design tool to put my dads logo on them. You can kind of see it in the top arrow in the pic above.

I have one arrow fletched with Trad vanes. Fletched one up on a whim. Seems to shoot fine off my shelf in the handful of shots I’ve taken so far (or maybe I’ll use the trad vanes as the excuse the third arrow wasn’t touching also :))
 
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Nothing wrong with feathers. If you're shooting single bevel, get whichever wing your broadheads call for. I've decided on four-fletch with short feathers (Gateway Rayzer and the TrueFlight version of the same). I settled on that based on my reading about the A&A cut feathers. I may change to a more traditional feather later but I'd like to see what this does for me.
 
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HuumanCreed said:
With these 2 items, I'm over a hundred arrows and still on my first roll. Also trad vanes are nice. If you start off with a elevated rest, you can use some of your vanes arrows too.


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Wait. What? Doesn't have to be in this thread, but I speak for all the stickandstring hunters here when I say you must do a thread dedicated to what this is and how it's been working for you.
 
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HuumanCreed said:
With these 2 items, I'm over a hundred arrows and still on my first roll. Also trad vanes are nice. If you start off with a elevated rest, you can use some of your vanes arrows too.


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100 arrows! That’s a lot of money. I think I’ve only had maybe 2 dozen arrows total in the 7 years I’ve been shooting. Whatcha doing to them thangs lol
 
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Red Beard said:
Wait. What? Doesn't have to be in this thread, but I speak for all the stickandstring hunters here when I say you must do a thread dedicated to what this is and how it's been working for you.
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Here it is, I honestly was going to let me 9 year old son do it to show how easy it was, but it was bedtime. @Red Beard @BackSpasm @gcr0003

Making 100+ arrow wraps under $15 budget

As requested by @Red Beard . Taking my son to his first 3D course in 2 weeks. He said he wanted striped wraps so I went a little fancier then my usual plain. Else, it could have been a short. Hope you appreciate the $100,000 I spend on video equipment and editing! Haha, 3rd video I ever posted...
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HuumanCreed said:
Here it is, I honestly was going to let me 9 year old son do it to show how easy it was, but it was bedtime. @Red Beard @BackSpasm @gcr0003

Making 100+ arrow wraps under $15 budget

As requested by @Red Beard . Taking my son to his first 3D course in 2 weeks. He said he wanted striped wraps so I went a little fancier then my usual plain. Else, it could have been a short. Hope you appreciate the $100,000 I spend on video equipment and editing! Haha, 3rd video I ever posted...
saddlehunter.com
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Ah. Ok. I originally thought you were making vanes or feather alternatives out of vinyl sheets and wanted in on that action. Giant let down.;)

Wraps make more sense though.
 
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