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Author Topic: What color Fletch?  (Read 1091 times)

Offline d from phx

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What color Fletch?
« on: September 28, 2011, 02:41:00 PM »
I am having some arrows done to hunt with and can not decide what color to use. I will be hunting Javelina in January. Help.

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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2011, 02:42:00 PM »
I like white or yellow.. Those are the 2 best colors that i can see in flight
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Offline Javi

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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2011, 02:48:00 PM »
white, yellow, blaze orange, lime green...
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Offline PaddyMac

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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2011, 02:51:00 PM »
four white 4-inch shields with a white 6" wrap and a 1" blood red crest (to commemorate what they're for) and a white nock.

Tried four barred, pretty as all get out, but couldn't see it worth a damn.

Mine are easy to see.
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2011, 02:53:00 PM »
Pink feathers with a orange wrap or cap dip is what i like.
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2011, 02:54:00 PM »
yellow with white cap!  Great to see!
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2011, 02:57:00 PM »
Anything visible  to your eye when you shoot it. Whatever you like. Remember   red is the first color to drop out of the light spectrum  when low light conditions prevail   so not always as visible as other colors .
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2011, 03:01:00 PM »
blood stained red is a great   :readit:    :bigsmyl:
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2011, 03:02:00 PM »
All white or yellow and mark the cock feather with a sharpie .
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2011, 03:19:00 PM »
I've always liked natural barred feathers in natural colors, like brown,grey,natural barred,green,black ect.for hunting. If I'm stumping or shooting 3D I like all white feathers and a white cap. I can't stand gawdy colors like orange, purple, fluorescent greens, blues.

As long as this has been brought up I've never understood why we get camo'd head to toe and then decide to use a big white cap and white feathers.
White is a danger sign in Mother Nature to most animals. I do have hunting arrows where I have a splice of a 1/2" of white feather in the back with a 1/2" of white cap.
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2011, 03:23:00 PM »
Kinda with MikeW on white, but not on gaudy colors, b/c I use orange.
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Offline Gen273

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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2011, 03:26:00 PM »
All 3 white/ 2 white and one barred/ 2 white one orange

Those are my picks
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Offline KodiakMag

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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2011, 03:28:00 PM »
I use yellow. Easy to see in flight and easier to find in the snow if you miss. But, since you are in AZ I don't think you get as much snow as we do up here.  :)
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2011, 03:37:00 PM »
Blue all the way.  It's the only color that really stands out in a world of gray, green, brown, yellow and orange in the fall.  White will get you shot in my neck of the woods.
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2011, 03:43:00 PM »
I started using some pink low bananas recently. They are so much easier for me to see than any of the other colors I've used in the past. They're not pretty, no doubt about it, but they stick out like a sore thumb. That I like.

I thought about blue, too. But deer do see blue colors. It probably wouldn't matter, though.

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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2011, 03:50:00 PM »
I use all white. It is easy to see and is not an unnatural color in the woods.
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #16 on: September 28, 2011, 03:56:00 PM »
I like all blue or 2 blue and one lime
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2011, 04:02:00 PM »
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Originally posted by JamesKerr:
I use all white. It is easy to see and is not an unnatural color in the woods.
No but it's a big red flag to deer...what do deer do when they are spooked or something isn't right? Or rabbits for that matter.
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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #18 on: September 28, 2011, 04:07:00 PM »
I used Blazer Orange wrap with Yellow feathers. Easy for me to see.

Offline Night Wing

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Re: What color Fletch?
« Reply #19 on: September 28, 2011, 04:09:00 PM »
I use 3, 5" all white feathers as white is the last color I can see as it starts getting light in the morning as well as it's the last color I can see in the fading light of dusk before darkness falls signaling the beginning of night.
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