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Originally Posted by kennls  How would you fellow archers like these in fita shooting, where a normal vane bends or break on contact, this will deflect their arrows or be shot off by competitors?
Or is it just for 3d?
The concept seems to look good, but would people hate standing on the same 90 m target with you?
/Kenn |
I was shooting with W_M when he was trying them out last September. Mike Houghton put a tight group around one of W_M's FOB's, and the arrows simply went inside the outer ring of the thing. (W_M had a stray arrow in the gold you see
) We coined the term "A friar tuck", rather than a robin hood). So no, I don't think they are a problem in deflecting other archers arrows away.
Although personally I find them ungainly and prefer my small slim ep vanes. After all, if the arrows and the bow are in tune, and you can shoot a bare shaft without it tumbling, there is very little need for a lot of fletching. Indoors is of course different, as you can get faster taming of the arrow as it leaves the bow. But then again, as a marked distance field archer, my gear is set up for the "bunny" shot, so I'm aiming to score 20 on four faces a close as 20 feet on a walk up shot.