What Feathers Do You See Best?

[Nala]

Hey all,

I am having some trouble seeing my current fletching when I shoot.  I have a WHITE wrap with 2 YELLOW feathers and 1 RED feather.  My feathers are 4 inc SHIELD Cut.  I thought they would be nice and brite and they are when you sit and look at them sitting on your bowstring, but when I let them fly it seems I can hardly pick them up.  So before I re-do all my arrows in a couple of weeks I thought I would ask around and hopefully get some ideas as to what others have found works well.

What Feather colors have your found easiest to pick up?

Thanks

Nala

[BMOELLER]

I use chartreuse wrap with 1 barred chart. and 2 solid chart. feathers.  Can be seen easily by me anyway.  I used to use all white but the chartruese is better.

[JBiorn]

[Deadbolt]

Pink and char...they stick out for sure!  I do 2 pink one char and they sure are bright!

Another good combo was 2 red one orange with a yellow knock...really stuck out in flight b/c you could pick that bright yellow nock in the center of the bright red orange combo really worked well

[bowmofo]

I use 4 fletch white and white nock,I use three of the same color when I only 3 fletch, with the white indexing  nock for better viability. Mike

[Dave Bulla]

I use the exact same combo as Brian above with the clear yellowish green nocks.  The chartreuse really shows up well.

One tip, if you are using bright feathers but they dont' show up as well as you'd expect, check your helical.  If you are using straight fletch or very little helical all that shows is the very back edge of the feather.  (provided they are flying straight)  A feather with more helical or offsett will show more of the side surface of the feather.  Just a thought.

[varmint]

Yellow nock,yellow dip,yellow cock feather,and 2 flourescent orange and yellow striped hen feathers on my 3D arrows.I like a white nock,white dip,and 3 natural barred feathers for hunting.

[Nala]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

I totally understand about the amount of helical in the fletching.  I DO fletch my arrows with RIGHT WING helical fletching, but the carbon arrows I am using aren't very big and I can't get too much helical on them or I won't get good contact with the glue to hold them on good.  Lately I have been experimenting with the Fletching TAPE and it seems to work pretty well.  The Fletching TAPE MAY allow me to get more of a helical fletch on my feathers and that would hopefully let me see them better.  But I'm still gonna get different colors.

Thanks all.

Nala

[Danny J]

I use 3 or 4 fletch bright yellow or white. I mark or splice the cock feather but leave the rear of the cock feather matching the other two. Makes it great for viewing rotation in flight. I have found, for myself anyway, if the rear of the cock feather does not match the other two it makes it look like the arrow is flying out of balance. I prefer to study the arrow flight and know where it hits its target.

[dino]

I shoot white cap dipped arrows, 4-5" fletch, 2 grey goose, 2 white turkey feathers, white nock. I can see them very well in flight and makes all the difference in the world when hunting. dino

[indianalongbowshooter]

white dip, white 5 in. feathers...

[LBR]

Chartruese, yellow, and pink.  For my hunting arrows, I use a fur (rabbit) or feather tracer wrapped in front of my nock--white or chartruese.  Rabbit hides can be picked up cheap at some shoots, and you can make gobs of tracers.  Marribou feathers can be picked up at a hobby store for about $1--strip them and have enough for several years.  Won't affect arrow flight, and are the next best thing to a lighted nock, except they show up really well even in broad daylight.

Chad

[John Nail]

hot peeeenk, with flo red nock

[Jerry Jeffer]

I like a yello or orange nock, with black fletch. If your shot is good, you should see a yellow dot on a black circle all the way to your mark.

[Steelhead]

3, 5 inch chartruese with a bright nock.

[vermonster13]

I like chartreuse with a chartreuse nock

[Jwilliam]

I use a white cresting wrap, 3-5" white feathers, and a white nock. My eyes pickup all white really good.


Bill

[ALW]

White nock, two chart. yellow and one blue.  Blue stands out pretty good against the colors of the woods.

Aaron

[**DONOTDELETE**]

3 fletch = 2 Pink/1White
4 fletch = 2 pink/2 white
6 fletch = 3 pink/3 white *


*Note* My flu-flu's full hight, Plus I have 2 arrows that have 6 nan cut feathers and flies great, just little more noise from them cutting the air ( arrow's Paradox ). going to try some BH's on them and see how they fly/sound

[hickstick]

pic is worth a thousand words  
 


I will say, however, that I just discovered on another thread how to make home made lighting nocks and LOVE them.