Brightest Fletching at Dusk

[SERGIO VENNERI]

Where can you purchase the Tracers? Anyone?

[BowHuntingFool]

Originally posted by 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

I hear ya there! I use all orange feather with orange wraps! Works great, I would like to try the tracer feathers, they look great in the above picture!

[JEFF B]

lime green and other choice orange. all 3 feathers same colour

[LBR]

Chartruese nock, cap, and feathers for me--and chartruese tracers on some of my hunting arrows.

Sergio, I think 3-Rivers sells them.  I just bought a big pack of marribou feathers at a hobby shop for about $1.  Strip them off the quill and glue them on.  They don't hold up all that well for target shooting, but work great on hunting arrows.

Chad

[dino]

Couple of years back I shot at a deer with about 15 minutes of legal light left.  It was the first year that I was shooting arrows with chartruese caps feathers nocks.  That arrow TOTALLY DISAPEARED.  Something about the light that time of night I could not see that arrow at all. Missed the deer (another story) but I couldn't see arrow till I got out of my stand and seen it standing up in the ground.  Never shot them again.  Went back to white unless it is snow covered I shooted yellow caps with yellow feathers.  Chartruese is good for target shooting for me, but never hunting again.  Don't want to take a change of not seeing an arrow.

[hawgslayer]

[zilla]

White wraps, flour yellow 5" feathers..

[Deff]

I use three chartreuse or florescent Lime feathers over a reflective white arrow wrap. The wrap really helps to intensify the glow of the fletches.

[joe skipp]

Taken last evening...Left to Right...

 

Blaze Orange/Chart Feathers
White Crown/White Feathers
Chart Dip/2 White 1 Chart Feather
White Crown/Partial Blaze Orange/ Flo Orange feathers
White Crown/Partial Aurora Pink/ Pink Feathers

Low light conditions....

[Talondale]

I picked up some maribou feathers and bobber lights this past weekend.  Found the feathers hard to get to stick to the arrows with fletching tape but got enough to check out the effect. Wasn't as much an improvement as I wanted so I'm going to make a couple of lighted nocks.  Before I couldn't use those because my aluminum shafts were tapered but this last dozen use unibushing nocks so I'm going to give it a try.

[Footed Shaft]

I am going to use  home made lighted noks this year, it does not matter what color fletching you wanna use then. The way these things streak to the target is just TOO neat!!!

[StickBowManMI]

Chartruce Wrap and three chartruce 5inch feathers show up great for me. Never had a problem with deer seeing them. They usually see me first through movement. Hard to see still on the ground for a long period of time. Just when you move is when the deer happen to be coming in.

[StickBowManMI]

That should read "Hard to Sit Still"

[bluegrassbowhunter]

Chartuese feathers & wraps.