Do you hate trying to find an arrow?

[joe skipp]

Pics below are this years hunting arrows. White dip with Flo Pink partial. Pink feathers and chartruese. Artificial light makes the flo pink look red...buts it not.

 


 

[Huntrdfk]

Dang those are bright Joe!  You still have JDA Naturals, I haven't seen those in awhile.


David

[joe skipp]

Dave...I still have one dozen left of the Original Naturals that Dougherty gave me back in '82. I'm going to be sending them to Mike's Archery next week to get cut and swagged. That was one great color...

[pointy sticks]

Well I have made almost every color arrow you can think of. One thing I have found is that reds, yellows, oranges, browns, blacks, and greens are all found naturally in the woods. You have to pick a color which is NOT natural. White works ,but not in the snow. I have found blue to be the easiest to find in the woods.

 

[BillJ]

I made up a few dowel arrows this year for flinging at squirrels.  Those seem to be the ones I lose a lot of, so I spray painted them blaze orange.  When I hunted, I carried 3 broadheads (shafts all natural, and fletch natural turkey feathers), and 2 of these blaze orange shafts (natural turkey feathers) in a bow quiver.  I was in a tree during bow season when I noticed movement about 300 yards away.  It was my brother, who was working his way through the woods in my general direction.  I figured he would never see me since I was pretty well hidden where I was but he came right toward me as if on a string.  When he got under my stand he pointed out that the minute he had topped the rise (probably 300 yards away), those 2 orange shafts were glowing and he saw me instantly.  

So, in addition to their value in helping find arrows (which they do), I guess you need to think about whether you want everybody seeing you from a mile away, too.  Not a problem to me, so I'll keep using them, I guess.  They do help me find the arrows.

B

[String Tracker]

nope i wouldnt know anything about bright arrows ....


 

 

[Tom Leemans]

I can lose any color arrow.
There was this one infamous "un-loseable 50 cent K-Mart aluminum arrow" we used to try and lose every year at the old "Broken Arrow" deer camp though. It was gamegetter green with one dull yellow and two pale green vanes. It had a translucent pink nock that didn't look especially bright but you could always pick it out in the grass or a bed of leaves, no matter how much you didn't care to find it.

I offered to lose it for good one day. I picked out a dead tree about 50 yards back in the timber and let it fly. It hit a limb high up in the tree and literally knocked the limb from the tree. (so much for under powered stick bows eh?) I walked back into the woods and low and behold, there it was; sticking straight up in the air out of the dead branch; still straight! I retrieved it and took it back to camp. I said "Well if we can't lose it, we may as well display it for everyone to see" so I shot it high up into the trunk of an old cottonwood tree that we used to camp next to. That tree had an arrow from every year we camped there. Kinda looked like a ladder after awhile. As far as I know, that arrow is still there.

[DRR324]

I too use chartreuse fletching and wraps, its not always easy to find the stragglers.  They have a way of hiding pretty good.  I resort to the metal detector when they put up a good fight,
but have giving up hope for a few, and won't miss them all that much.  Kinda like when I would golf with my Dad and one of us would hit an errant shot.  After about 2 minutes of looking, he would say- thats enough looking- they make millions of them every day for guys like me that lose them.....

[Jeff Strubberg]

I've dipped arrows in vermillion and crested them in all white feathers.  Believe me, they still disappear!

[Al Snow]

Yep, I've aimed at Chad's arrows a few times.     :D

[6 POINT]

At a 3D shoot a few years back my friend lost an arrow and we had looked for ten minutes for it.
A guy coming up behind us had a lab with him. He saw what we were doing and signaled the dog in.Bingo the dog had that arrow pointed in less than 20 seconds! It was burried under a bunch of brush and we never would have found it. I was totally amazed.

[Elk77]

I use camouflage arrows because I am never behind the Target looking for arrows      

[David M. Mathis]

I go with yellow, orange and some with blue on the nock end. Yellow and blue show up good. Don't use blue for trukey hunting.

[non-typical]

I carry a homemade arrow hook in my quiver. Just drag it through the grass and you can locate a lot of lost arrows. Works better than my metal detector.

[bowdude]

If you are willing to use aluminum or carbon, camo and dull all the way, you cant beat a lighted nock.  The glow in the grass like an orange flashlight!  LEDs are awesome.

[Woodduck]

I think I'm joining the stampede to shoot solid yellow, too, Big Dave.

I've noticed others shooting them and they show up nice.
I've got reflective tape on my hunting arrow already; and it shows up.