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Who isn't using 2" Blazer vanes or tried them yet?

Hardcorehunter

Hardcorehunter

UL Shelter/Stove Geek
I used to use feathers, but once I tried 2" Blazers, I was sold. They are durable and stabilize a broadhead or field tip awesome and provide excellent flight. These have taken the archery world by storm. Tried them or using them?
 
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I tried them for the first time almost two years ago and haven't even considered using anything else since.
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I am using the quick spin version of blazer..... NICE!

They make muzzys fly like bullets. I was accurate with muzzys but they seemed to make a BIG circle to the right out of my bow. I thought maybe my arrows were not splined right or something and a buddy said he was having the same trouble and that switching to the 2in quick spins was the ticket. After shooting a couple of his arrows with my practice broadheads I was on the phone to order some.

AWESOME GROUPS.

Dean
 
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Tried them or using them?

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No, and no.
 
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I have prefect flight with a 2" blazer on field tips or broadheads. They are the most used and talked about fletch that I read about on Archery Talk or Huntingnet. I have used them for a year with no complaints.
 
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In retrospect, I didn't see any difference between the 2" blazers and the 4 inchers that came on the shats. Both fletchings shot the same groups. The six arrows with Blazers and the six arrows with the original fletching still made 12" groups.
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Anybody wanna calculate MOA on that?

Seriously though, I bought the Blazers to try and cure my problem. It was only after I got some help with my form and set up (thanks again Muddy) that I was able to make much smaller groups with both fletchings. With my limited abillity the money I spent on blazers may not have been worth it. If you are a skilled archer shooting very tight groups and you want them tighter, then spend the money if you feel they will help. If you are a beginner like me, fletchings are not the panacea or cure all for bad form, poor set up or lack of abillity. Along those same lines, I heard a football coach say practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

Oh yeah, I killed deer this year with both fletchings.

The 'Bonker
 
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If you are a skilled archer shooting very tight groups and you want them tighter, then spend the money if you feel they will help.

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I don't think I am a skilled archer but I also don't think a flething change will make a significant change in my groups. One thing I have found is that most every bad shot of mine is not caused by the equipment or would be corrected by an equipment change (operator error). When I use up my oversupply of vanes, maybe then I will try them.

Having not shot the Blazer, I am not qualified in saying that if you think the vanes will help, your best bet is to use longer vanes and helical twist.
 
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I like them because they are so durable. I shoot a trophy taker drop away and fletching contact isn't an issue for me. The Whisker Biscuit shooters really like the Blazers as they hold up to the fletching contact and abuse that a WB puts on a vane. I have read tons of testimonials from WB and drop away shooters on how much they love the blazers. I do too, and just passing on the info.
 
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Tried 'em a couple years ago and it's all I've used since. Love 'em.
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The Whisker Biscuit shooters really like the Blazers as they hold up to the fletching contact and abuse that a WB puts on a vane.

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This is what I've been shooting for about the last 1 1/2 or so, no complaints about this set up at all. Although I'm probably going to a drop-a-way on my new bow, I'll stick to the Blazers.
 
I shoot the blazers and like them but this past fall when I was starting to practice for season I was haveing a hard time getting my muzzies to fly the way I wanted them to. The only change I had made was a five pound increase in draw weight. I finaly switched to Grim Reapers to fix the problem. So I dont know if it was the vanes or arrow speed or spine. I dont think it was spine do to the fix with the new heads.
 
I also have a question, Bohning states that a two degree offset is the best for the blazers. I have a Bitzenburger and I put as much helical as I can get. So am I hurting or helping my arrow flight?
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I don't know if you're hurting your arrow flight, but I fletch my Blazers with a straight clamp and a little bit of offset. They've always flown great.

Bohning recommends this setup so I've never even tried a helical clamp. I wouldn't think you'd get as much benefit with the helical since the vanes are so short.
 
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I also have a question, Bohning states that a two degree offset is the best for the blazers. I have a Bitzenburger and I put as much helical as I can get. So am I hurting or helping my arrow flight?
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I've always fletched Blazers straight with a slight offset. The other day I figured I'd try as much helical as I could get. I think the reason everyone fletches them straight with offset is because of how short they are (not worth trying helical). I got a pretty good right helical on my current arrows. There is no reason why it shouldn't help get a little more twist. I sure don't think it can hurt anything. Haven't shot the arrows yet though. NOTE: I'm shooting a fall-away. I wouldn't give them a helical if your shooting a Whisker Biscuit.
 
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I wouldn't think you'd get as much benefit with the helical since the vanes are so short.


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I think they have good helical on them for being two inches. I dont know if it helps but looks like it would spin the arrow more than the two degree offset.
As for rest I shot a drop away the Drop Zone.
 
I like them too, its amazing how quiet they fly. For a simple test have a buddy you trust shoot an arrow with blazers into a target, while you are standing about 3/4 down range so the arrow flys by you. Then take a 4 inch or 5 inch vane and do the same thing. You barely even know the Blazer blew by, while the 4-5 inch vanes sound like a jet engine rolling by. Again use a buddy you trust!!!
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"I like them because they are so durable. I shoot a trophy taker drop away and fletching contact isn't an issue for me. The Whisker Biscuit shooters really like the Blazers as they hold up to the fletching contact and abuse that a WB puts on a vane."

My thoughts exactly Hardcorehunter.
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I am not going ot lie to you I shot them and hated them. I felt like I picked up speed but had a help of a time with my new muzzy, MX-4. But then again I couldn't them to fly right at all with anything.

I guess it could of been my cheap 55-75 goldtips, haha. The were crap. I got som axis's now.
 
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