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Your experience with Impact Collars: Iron Will vs. Easton

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#1 ·
I need to build some new arrows for the upcoming season. My original plan was to order cut arrows and build my own with iron will impact collars. Then I got to looking a little closer at Lancaster and I notice they have a nice option to buy the Easton arrows I was looking at with the HIT insert and impact collar. I was going to pull the trigger because of the price and convenienve, but then I read a review stating that the Easton collars were not "snug" (see screenshot). Does anyone have experience with the Easton collars and are they "snug?"

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Looking at these options:
Easton Axis 5mm Match Grade Shafts w/HIT Inserts and Collars
Easton FMJ 5mm Match Grade Shafts w/HIT Inserts and Collars

Thanks!
 
#4 ·
I’ve used the iw collars and now I’m using the Easton collars. The #3 fits a 340 spine decently but the weights are sorta random, some are 15.2gr and others are 17.5ge while most are 16gr. It’s slightly cheaper to use the Easton but not by much. Made in Korea where the IW stuff is made in the US, not sure if that’s important to you ? Iron will collars are better fit and finished weight consistency.
 
#8 ·
Just started using collars for the first time on my latest arrows and ended up going with iron will because they were the closest to the OD of the shaft. They fit perfectly (0.01 wider than shaft if I remember correctly) and weights are within .5gr of advertised. I’d say go for whoever has the closest sizing and the weights you want.