new to shooting - couple of questions

[canthitathing]

The Blazer vanes may well be harder than the cheaper long plastic vanes, and for a whisker biscuit, the cheap plastic vanes get stretched and go wavy while the blazer vanes keep their shape.

[DGM999]

Skuba, your getting solid advise from the guys here, Snowwalker has the orientation of the off colour fletching right, the dark coloured section on the bottom of the whisker biscuit is actually stiffer material, this holds your arrow in a repeatable position as an arrow rest should, with off colour fletching up you'll notice that all 3 vanes will pass thru the lighter coloured bristles, this provides even resistance all round. One thing to keep in mind about having your bow set to 70 lbs, when its warm and your standing and shooting 70 lbs is no big deal. When its cold, you've sat motionless for hours in a stand and you need to smoothly draw the bow its another story. 60 lbs is plenty of power on a compound, ran some numbers, for every 5 lbs of draw you get or lose 10 feet per second of speed, given that the speed of sound is 4 to 5 times faster than your arrow there's no real advantage to 10 or 20 feet per second either way. Quiet and accurate will serve you best, pick a weight where you can slowly draw your bow with your arm straight out in front of you, it should be fairly effortless.

[ghost1324]

Then you want the odd colored one up. There is a section of dark strands at the bottom of the arrow rest, the fletchings should not touch or go thru them. They are likely to touch the riser window if they do. Which is why the biscuit has the colored section marked off.

sorry to hijack you thread but guy at shop told me to put it down. So i have been doing it wrong? I just got my bow a couple months ago been practicing shooting 30 a night @ 20 yards. Will this aftect my sights by putting odd colour up now i just got them figured out besides me torquing the bow a little once and a while.

[ghost1324]

That would explain why i had to adjust sights so much. Good thing I looked at this thread Thanks!!!!

[SongDog]

Skuba, your getting solid advise from the guys here, Snowwalker has the orientation of the off colour fletching right, the dark coloured section on the bottom of the whisker biscuit is actually stiffer material, this holds your arrow in a repeatable position as an arrow rest should, with off colour fletching up you'll notice that all 3 vanes will pass thru the lighter coloured bristles, this provides even resistance all round. One thing to keep in mind about having your bow set to 70 lbs, when its warm and your standing and shooting 70 lbs is no big deal. When its cold, you've sat motionless for hours in a stand and you need to smoothly draw the bow its another story. 60 lbs is plenty of power on a compound, ran some numbers, for every 5 lbs of draw you get or lose 10 feet per second of speed, given that the speed of sound is 4 to 5 times faster than your arrow there's no real advantage to 10 or 20 feet per second either way. Quiet and accurate will serve you best, pick a weight where you can slowly draw your bow with your arm straight out in front of you, it should be fairly effortless.

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63 lbs is more than enough. Put on a big jacket and point your bow straight down and try to draw back, if you have no problem pulling it back in that position I would say that Is perfect weight, when that big buck is standing broadside 20 yards away, you want to draw as smooth as possible with the least amount of motion. If your lifting the bow way up to draw it's too heavy.....something to think about

[justinmonk]

Absolutely use the same type of arrows for hunting. You will know exactly how your arrows will fly when the moment of truth arrives. The bow shop technician was correct in lowering your draw weight as your muscles will have time to react to the added stress of drawing 70 pounds. You still have about 2 months to "crank it up" to 70. Have fun, practice frequently and don't forget to post your pictures come October!

Fixerman please pm me, want to buy your bow press if still available.

[canthitathing]

I just bought some NAP Quikfletch "Orange Crush" (Lee & Tiffany Lakosky label) "Quickspin" vanes from Amazon.ca because it looked like the NAP Quikfletch "Twister" ones (that I started using last year) were a longer delivery. These "Quickspin" vanes seem softer than the "Twister" ones and have a little airfoil on the top edge. I just fired a couple of arrows with them through my Whisker Biscuit. I have one vane starting to tear at the start of the airfoil as it looks like the vane just hits the edge of the stiffer bristles around the bottom arc of the Whisker Biscuit (my fault I guess for not aligning them better but it appears to potentially be a weak point of this "Quickspin" design for Whisker Bicuit use, even if going through the regular bristles after a while). Going to order some more "Twister" ones and forget about the "Quickspin" ones.

I give a thumbs up to the "Quikfletch" in general, no thumbs up for "Quickspin", but a definite thumbs up for Tiffany.