Blazer set up

[grooveyguru1]

Hi everyone, I am keen to try some blazers and was wondering how to set them up. Do you fletch them straight or in a helical fashion? Also I have heard of using 4 per shaft. Does this offer any advantages? Any help would be appreciated, Cheers Chris

[spudgrunt]

I use 3 on a slight offset they work fine. I have used them set up helical and found no real difference in groups I have been getting.

[i'm a guy like me]

Three, cranked as far around as my jig will go. For hunting that is.

You won't look back, blazers really are what they're cracked up to be.

[GREG D]

Hey guru, I've just fletched up half a doz shafts on helical using 3 blazers. They seen to work ok but with this constant rain I havent shot them at any distance. I'm hoping they are as good as everyone reports.

Greg

[hutcho]

hey Groovey

still after some blazers?

PM me with your address and I flick some in the post to you.

[grooveyguru1]

Thanks for the info guys. And thanks for the offer Hutcho but I am going to buy some myself, just sorting out how I am going to fletch the little buggers, Cheers Chris

[XTfreak]

I used to use 3.
I now use 4 through my W/B just so I dont have to look when I knock the arrow. I dont have to take my eyes of my target:D
Bill

[NormGunston]

Another vote for helical. Some say there can't be any difference between straight and helical due to the short length of Blazers. I suggest those people haven't seen Blazers spin a broady. You won't look back.
As for the number- I would like to see some test results supporting any advantages for 4 over 3.

[bowhunting4eva]

1 used blazers but then went back to 4'' vanes. i could not get good stabalization with the blazers. i think they just do not have enough surface area to keep the arrow planing like 4'' vanes. if you look at a plane they have really long, big wings with a large surface to they can stabalize and plane in the sky. cannot remember the last time i saw small thick wings on a plane. anyway that was what i found with them and it was probably my setup or a tuning problem

[NormGunston]

Right on B4B- totally hear you on that one, use whatever it most forgiving, and therefore accurate for you and your rig. Don't be afraid to go back.

[XTfreak]

Another vote for helical. Some say there can't be any difference between straight and helical due to the short length of Blazers. I suggest those people haven't seen Blazers spin a broady. You won't look back.
As for the number- I would like to see some test results supporting any advantages for 4 over 3.

Set up your target around the 60 meter mark.
Shoot some arrows with 3 blazers at it and then shoot some arrows with 4 blazers at it.
You will see a difference my friend.
For me I have noticed inside 50 meters there isnt much difference in arrow flight, but beyond 50 meters there seems to be significant difference...
Bill

[Sneaky Pete]

I use 3 blazers fletched with a mild helical. I went from 4" vanes to blazers just a little while ago, just thought I would give them a try and see what all the fuss was about. I fletched 3 arrows with 2" blazers, and shot them at my target bag from as far back as I can get, which is 57 meters (I don't have a pin set at that distance but used my 50 meter pin). When I walked up to the target, I nearly wet myself- the 3 arrows were touching each other in the target. Blazers for me from now on, thanks.
Oh, and BH 4 Eva; the wings on an aircraft are there to provide lift. The things that stabilise it in flight? That's those short, thin, stubby things down the back end- known in aviation as the vertical stabiliser and the horizontal stabiliser. ;)

[snipered]

my last batch of arrows i tried the NAP quickspins but will be going back to blazers as found them much better. also a lot cheaper as well

[howie]

tried both 3 and 4 blazers on a shaft, at hunting ranges with field tips and b/heads, I noticed no difference.

[sharpshooter]

I fletch three blazers per shaft on a slight angle and find them extremely affective with broad heads and field points.
I've also heard from my local archery shop that blazers cannot be fletched using a helical fletching jig.

[rory]

3 x blazers for me,.

I shoot out to 80m and see great flight and accuracy at all ranges with the tough little buggers.