Okay, yall's opinions do carry serrious weight with me.
Now I can start blaming my vanes instead of just my bad shots!
Seriously, my own error is definitely more at fault than my arrows and I've missed far with feathers and hit dead on with vanes but I think with a
proper feather fletching job would be significantly supierior. I made the ones I have now last summer and the transistion is kind of rough, as the scar on my left index knuckle can attest too.
That was also before I learned about the higher knocking point for when you are shooting off the knuckle.
. But I don't cut my knuckle too much anymore.
I've got a new batch of arrows that are definitely getting some turkey feathers and this summer I'll revamp my old ones so the transition is a little smoother.
I litteraly went outside about five minutes ago and even put my hand right below the knocking point and the vanes still didn't cut my hands. However, I have tried to make DT Vanes into 'feathers' before and shooting those off the knuckle hurt a lot.
Jon, squirrel is young, still sometimes a bit brash and annoying, but he's around that middle school/freshman age where most guys think they know
way more than they actually do. I can't judge because I know I wasn't too different a few years ago (I'm 16 now). I have seen a bow of his but, despite his great interest in primitive weapons, he's still pretty new and has a lot to learn.
Squirrel(regarding the above), just keeping it real man. I've had a few people give me similar critism before and it really helped me go in the right direction. Being able to take that constructive humbling critisim well is a big step in the direction of maturity. Guys need that.
To all, I might still use DT vanes for Stumping, but I'll stick to the feathers for serious work. Thanks guys!
Dan
