-------------------- "He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze." 2 Samuel 22:35 Posts: 872 | From: Butler Co. Kansas | Registered: Dec 2007
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I am going to the BRIGHT pink also for hunting because of visibility. I am experimenting with 4 4" fletching.
-------------------- Isaiah 49:2...he made me a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver. Wilderness Custom Arrows Posts: 6811 | From: oregon | Registered: Nov 2005
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Another proud member of "Team Pink". 4x4" Vario Hunter...
I also like flouro yellow for some of my arrows...
Either way, I use a flouro yellow nock cause it seems to glow in low light.
-------------------- "Being there was good enough..." Charlie Lamb reflecting on a hunt TGMM Brotherhood of the Bow Posts: 9537 | From: Ranger, GA | Registered: Mar 2003
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My next set will be 3 wild turkey with flo. chartruse spliced into the tail ends. The profile will be banana with the tail end clipped off. They'll be on tonkin shafts with self knocks and silk thread wraps. (purple thread because it'll match my bow)
I'll say this about plastic nock colors though. The flo. pink nocks are virtually unlosable. My buddy used to carry what he called the unlosable arrow. It was a green game getter with a flo pink nock. I don't care how many times he "lost" it while 3D shooting, we always found it. I offered to lose it for him once and he said I couldn't. I shot it into the timber once down at deer camp. It hit a dead limb some 70 yards away and broke the limb off. I only walked 10 yards into the tree line before I saw it! I then shot it into our "broken arrow campsite" tree. It's prolly there still today.
-------------------- Got wood? - Tom Posts: 4823 | From: Illinois | Registered: Mar 2003
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all three are 5.5 high back flo yellow shield cut it's shooting a lantern at a deer.
-------------------- Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem. —President Ronald Reagan Posts: 7953 | From: NJ to GA back to NJ =Lost ;) | Registered: Sep 2009
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I always use 3 orange shield cut or banana LW feathers and an orange nock on my arrows. White to me is an alarm color in the woods. Most everything from a woodpecker to a deer flashes white when it's alarmed. Just an observation. I had a dozen vapors that I made that all ready had white wraps on them. I flectched them with orange feathers. I got nailed by two does last season trying to take a shot and I swear they were focusing on my quiver of arrows..After that I cap dipped them orange with a paint pen (Dykem) that you mark steel plate with. BTW it works great for capping arrows. Lasts forever too and comes in all kinds of colors.
-------------------- USN Retired 1984-2006 God Bless the USA Posts: 22 | From: Maryland | Registered: Mar 2006
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I have been using 3 white feathers for years down here in the south and nothing stands out better when the arrow passes through a deer. It never snows down here so that white on brown is perfect.
-------------------- Joe Van Kilpatrick Posts: 2990 | From: Birmingham AL | Registered: Apr 2009
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"too many people live under the misguided impression that death is the worst possible of natural events" -John G. Mitchell, "The Hunt" Posts: 442 | From: Greenville, North carolina | Registered: May 2009
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"too many people live under the misguided impression that death is the worst possible of natural events" -John G. Mitchell, "The Hunt" Posts: 442 | From: Greenville, North carolina | Registered: May 2009
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quote:Originally posted by longhunter95: desertfox, saw the Trad Rag wraps, my brother frequents the traditional firearms and other pages there. he goes by Mountainrifle.
very cool. I just got over there. wasn't even sure what it was. but free wraps are good. Posts: 31 | From: Arizona | Registered: Aug 2009
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-------------------- But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. Psalms 3:3 Posts: 1917 | From: Crow Mnt., Arkansas | Registered: Nov 2009
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For my hunting arrows i've always liked a white cap, all white feathers and white nocks. In early morning or late evening they really show up well. For the arrows i practice with i like to experiment with different combinations, going to try splicing this winter for the first time too.
Posts: 467 | From: Vandalia,Illinois | Registered: Oct 2009
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Ive used red for years on my hunting arrows. I can see them all the way to the animal and through. For 3d shooting; the brighter the better and still sometimes lose one. Ha! Ha!
-------------------- TRADITIONAL ARCHERY It's been in my blood for 40 plus years. It's priceless! Posts: 368 | From: steeleville illinois | Registered: Jan 2009
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