Shooting Vanes from a Traditional Bow

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morning guys I'm Dave Canterbury with the Pathfinder school and what I'd like to do this morning is I'd like to answer a very common question about traditional archery a lot of guys asked me on some of my pages on Facebook and places like that Dave what type of arrows do I need to shoot from my traditional style long boat or recurve the patented answer to that is that you should shoot arrows with feathered fletchings in other words the fletchings on that arrow should be made from actual feathers because a traditional bow has a solid rest and your arrow sits in the corner of that rest and if you have plastic vanes that cannot compress as it passes by that arrows show it will deflect the back of your arrow causing accuracy problems the simple fix to that is to put an elevated rest on your traditional bow and you can then shoot any arrow from that bow without suffering those accuracy problems an elevated arrow rest like a weather rest by bear archery is less than ten dollars and that enables me to take this bow and shoot any arrow I want to shoot from Walmart Kmart Dick's Gander Mountain doesn't matter where I buy those carbon arrows with the colorful plastic fletchings on them they will all shoot from this bow now and I will not suffer accuracy problems that I would have had if I had not put the elevated rest on so let's look at this up close for a minute and talk about that so that you better understand it okay let's look at this bow and I'm going to turn it around left handed but it doesn't matter whether you're on the left side of the right side of the bow and most of these older bows like this we're made ambidextrous these fiberglass ones so you can shoot them left over right handed because they use them a lot in schools and Scouts and things like that for training they never know which kid was going to be left-handed which kid is going to be right hand so we're just going to use the left hand side of the shelf for the example because I have the rest the elevated rest on the right hand side and when I say right hand side I'm talking about right hand shooting side not right hand side of the bow now if I take an arrow that has a plastic vein on it instead of an actual feather it does not compress like a feather would when you run your hand across it and what that does is it causes a deflection to happen when you shoot this arrow from the bow and it passes by the rest even if you have the cock feather out which is the colored feather you still have deflection of two of these vanes because they will not compress they're going to deflect the back of that arrow because they can't compress like a real feather so the way you fix that is by using an elevated rest like this bare weather rest and what that does is it allows you to put that on your bow and you can put this on any bow because it's just a stick-on device I've trimmed this one down a little bit for the width of these width of this riser because it was a little wider than the riser was so I just trimmed it down with a pair of scissors not going to hurt anything only part of it I need is this elevation portion now when I put my arrow in the bow to shoot it it sits on that elevated rest and now I have space between here and the arrow so that those veins no longer matter I've taken those veins out of the equation and now I can shoot these plastic vein compound bow style arrows from my traditional bow and these weather rests cost less than $10 I usually carry an extra one in my archery box just to make sure I have it if I need it and I'll show you the type of box that I carry in a minute for when I'm using carbon and aluminum type arrows with my traditional bows

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so here's the bottom line guys get yourself set up with your bow to shoot the type of arrows that you can get readily or have access to if you need to shoot plastic veins to practice archery then get yourself an elevated rest that will give you the best chance at accuracy over time if you're a beginner if you can afford to buy feathered fletchings and you want to stay absolutely traditional and shoot wood arrows with feathered fletchings you don't need the elevated rest but if you're going to shoot plastic veins you're going to have to get yourself an elevated rest for your longbow or your recurve to get that arrow up off the bottom shelf and away from the side of the riser so you don't have deflection with those plastic veins I appreciate your views today I appreciate your support I thank you for the thing to do for our school for our family apart business for all of our sponsors instructors affiliates and friends now we back to another video since I can thanks guys [Music]