fletch /feather color

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[Mike Vines]

I love to watch the arrows fly.  Here is last year's bear hunting arrows...

     

Everything looks better covered in blood...

   

And here is this year's moose hunting arrows.  I call these the "MV" fletch...

     

[SELFBOW19953]

I've also heard that deer see blue.  I'll use blue for target, but not for hunting.  I prefer chartreuse feathers and crown-much easier for me to follow in flight.

[Slickhead]

BLUE
you can spot it from a long way.

Im making some squirrel arrows soon and will use blue fletchings and blue cap wraps.

[M60gunner]

I reworked some old alum with Flo Orange wraps, yellow cock feather and bright orange feathers with a bright yellow nock. Of course we have lots of sun here so they showed up great. For low lite I use Flo. Yellow wraps, Flo yellow feathers, and a Flo green nock.

[Pine]

[Pine]

[PBNJ]

Wow! Mike Joe and Graps thiose are some fine and highly visible arrows! The pink is nice and bright you surely can't miss them. I was shooting some all white feathers last night and they are  good but I'm thinking maybe yellow or chartreuse maye be the answer, brighter than white but not as shockingly bright as pink. Make sense? Thanks for all your opinions and comments. Keep them coming...

[PBNJ]

By the way Mike tell me more about those MV feathers. Unique. Whats the reason for the drastic angle? Good flight?

[Pine]

I used to shoot chartreuse but when the leaves start to fall , lots of them are the same color . One day I was stumpin and I had lost an arrow that had just skipped off the top edge of a log , looked for about an hour , found it laying on top in plain sight . Was a black shaft and that's what I finally saw .

[Msbow]

Flo yellow and flo pink for me
 

[Son of Rooster]

hard to beat pink, or yellow

[Mike Vines]

Originally posted by PBNJ:
By the way Mike tell me more about those MV feathers. Unique. Whats the reason for the drastic angle? Good flight?

I use a high back banana chopper to cut them and at the rear, I cut them 90% to the quill (look at a Fighter Jet, you will see the similarities).  I read all I could on Dr. Ashby's reports and, just to be different, I changed his recommended fletch size with my version of the MV fletch just to make it my own.

I'm shooting 23% or 24% FOC with these arrows, and my bare shafts with 225 grain Tuffhead Broadheads and 75 grain titanium adapters fly awesome.  I added the MV fletch, as Ashby recommendes, for stability.  

A properly tuned arrow with high FOC needs nothing on the rear, that is how guys are able to bare shaft tune their set up.  With a broadhead design like the Tuffhead, you are able to use the mechanical advantage (long and skinny) to your advantage.  

Honestly, everything I do when Bowhunting I've learned by reading off of Tradgang.com and the PBS website along with trial and error.  I believe I now have the Ultimate arrow/broadhead combination for my Longbow for anything I will ever care to hunt from Moose on down.  

Having confidence in your equipment is step 1 in being a Bowhunter.  Step 2 is if you want to kill an animal with a bow, you need to leave the gun at home.  Step 3 is when a hunt of a lifetime hinges on your broadheads, use broadheads that don't have hinges on them.

Here is a pic of my "MV fletch"...

     

[PBNJ]

Mike thats very interesting. You must have your bow tuned to a high degree. I enjoyed your three steps as well. I've been using 5 to 5 and 1/2 inch shield cuts for a long time. I don't do much bare shaft tuning. I might mess with that more this summer. Thanks for you input. It's appreciated. Paul

[dbd870]

Originally posted by Msbow:
Flo yellow and flo pink for me
 

Been using yellow and white but those are sharp. May have to trade out the white for pink

[Caughtandhobble]

I primarily use wild turkey feathers with black Super Nocks. It seems hunting with wild turkey fletching or darker fletching that I never have any animals "jump the string". At 3D shoots it makes it very hard for some one to shoot at my arrows, lol... I like the darker fletching, I also have a bunch of red barred fletching that I use from time to time. All of my fletchings are 5" shield cut, I just think the shield cut looks cool.

 

[Michael Arnette]

I'll always shoot yellow...just like it.

[BUCKY]

I have used all yellow or all white for years. Was thinking of orange this year but after reading this I'll stay with my yellow or white.

[PBNJ]

Ben what an awesome picture! Love the quiver and the arrows too. And two giant gobblers with paint brushes for beards! I like shield cuts myself...but you need awfully good eyesight to see those arrows in flight!

[Zradix]

I've read that deer see blue pretty well.
..so I don't use blue.
I think blue fletch looks great..but don't use it.