Brightest Fletching at Dusk

[Deadbolt]

For my eyes chartruse glows in those conditions you described...I often shoot at night and I can see them suckers a mile away.

[Froggy]

Chartreuse.... Like a beacon in the night !!

[joe skipp]

Flo Chartruese and white especially on a crown dip of flo chartruese or blaze orange. White on white is also very effective. Hot Pink...great visibility but not when the "zipper" starts to come down deep in those woods.

[woodchucker]

WHAT!!!!!   :eek:          Ya suprized me Joe!!!!!

(I still LOVE the Chartruse arrows you did for me!!!!!)

[Red Beastmaster]

Pat B.

Yeah, get this, our Game Commission has put a ML week and a four day rifle season in the third week of Oct. The four day season is for youth and seniors, the two age groups with the worst judgement. With the amount of cover we have at that time it's pretty dangerous for us archers.

My friend walked out of the woods at dusk with his recurve bow quiver full of white fletched arrows. He was wearing the required orange vest and hat. When he hit the field edge there was a muzzleloader hunter out in the field ready to shoot. He was sure Mike was a deer but was waiting to see if he was a buck or doe!

I usually stay home that week.

You don't want to hear about Fall turkey season!

[BMOELLER]

Another vote for chartreuse. Then I like flo. orange.  Pink is ok. Then white.

[Rufus]

Several buddies and I have always used orange. Easily seen and actually in the extremely rare circumstance of an arrow missing it's intended point of arrival, (ha), orange is generally easier to find in the grass.  I've caught the attention of animals with white but can't say that orange has ever bothered anything but turkeys. Turkeys be another matter all together.

[Widowbender]

I always have used either chart. or white...use a fletch cover...been thinking about lighted nocks myself...they are not pope and young legal, though...

David

[beyondmyken]

Talondale, I did a lighted nock how to.  see   http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=055042;p=1

Solid fluorescent nocks shows better than translucent ones.
Not sure what deer see with their range of UV light ability but lots of natural stuff lights up with black light flashlight.  Also, I have read that deer see blue quite well.

[Terry Green]

Flo Yellow/Chartreuse

[Daddy Bear]

IIRC the auto insurance industry spent tons of money testing human visibility of colors during day, dusk, and night. I think it was one of the yellows that proved most visible in low light. This was why Fire Departments began switching away from red to yellow. White may have been the best for night which is why many police departments switched to white. I don't recall the best day color, but I do recall that red appears black when the lighting is poor.

Daddy Bear

[Fletcher]

Sounds like the chartreuse pretty popular and it is my preference for low light, too.  I fletch most of my arrows with regular yellow and a few with the chartreuse.  The bright goes on the string when I get on stand.  I can follow plain yellow pretty well, but it doesn't come close to the chartreuse during the first and last 15 minutes.

I like the chartreuse nocks, too.  Put them on over white paint and they get even brighter.

[James Wrenn]

I see chartreuse best at last light.After trying lighted nocks my feathers don't matter as much any more.Those are the best thing since peanut butter for showing where the arrow goes through at.

[AdamH]

Flourescent Yellow or Chartreuce, there were times I lowered my bow to the ground almost Dark, could barely see the ground, but could still see my feathers real well, they are bright, when you really need them to be, and the Turkeys think so too, didn't bother the deer much...

[joe skipp]

Even flo orange, flo lime and even Hot Pink do not show up well in the evening. Great visibility until that darkness settles in. This past spring in Canada, I used hot pink feathers on a white dipped arrow with a partial dip of Aurora Pink...Super until the "zipper starts to come down". Then I switched over to either a blaze orange dip or flo chart dipped arrow with Chartruese feathers. Another great combo is flo chart dip with all white feathers....

[WidowEater]

i like a hot pink crest wrap with pink and white feathers

[b.glass]

white tracers

[Coop]

I like a white wrap or crown dip with white and either lime or chartreuse feathers.

But Red Beastmaster is right you have to be careful here in PA. So I now also use a fletching cover for this reason so when I am walking I don't look like a target. It is no fun to walk out and be in someone sights because they saw the white.

[pointy sticks]

flo green nocks I couldn't beleive how much light they gathered and how easy it was to watch them in flight.

 


only light coming in the room is from a window in another. Note the arrow is positioned so it's not getting direct light.

 

[buckeye_hunter]

I was suprised how easy it was to see arrows fletched with hunter orange feathers and the same color wraps.  We were shootind at targets near dark and it looked like the arrows were illuminated. I bet bright pink would work well too.

-Charlie