Applied the TradGang arrow wraps last night to a bunch of old olive green Gamegetter 1920's last night. I trimmed off the white TradGang part (will use that on some other arrows), and the snakeskin part looks awesome with these old olive shafts. Question now is this:
What nock/fletching colors would look best? Usually I don't solicit any kind of help and come up with some very cool color combos or splices on my own, but I'm not sure where to go next. I pulled out all my feathers/nocks and just couldn't pull the trigger on any of them. Any of you come up with some neat combos to go with the same arrow wraps?
Put up a picture of what you have so far. Might help to generate some ideas.
I did some copperhead skins with nat turkey feather with a hint of chartruse in em I think they look good.
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p31/smallwood1972/pichers1.jpg)
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Sorry, guys, but I'm at work and the arrows (and camera and conversion dealybop cables) are at home.
Best I can tell you is that the arrows are a dark olive green and the wrap looks like a python or maybe a copperhead to me. Copper is kind of the dominant color in the snakeskin. I just figured (hoped) that since they were TradGang wraps that some of you might recall how you did yours up.
I generally like bright colored fletching (or at least a bright nock/bright splice at the rear of the feathers), but I just couldn't find a combo last night I liked.
Actually black nock/black feathers looked pretty good (but I'd not want to shoot them in low light). I also thought natural turkey barred would look decent.
The wraps have a touch of gold in them as well. I didn't look too hard last night, but are there olive nocks or gold nocks available anywhere?
And sorry I can't give you any visuals yet...
Bryce, I've seen some copperhead wraps that were done up w/ Orange and Orange barred fletching that looked pretty sharp....
good luck :thumbsup:
Bryce,
just given ya a hard time buddy.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Killdeer/TG%20Uploads/Archery%20Equipment/Tools/Img_0831.jpg)
These were on Autumn Orange shafts, with yellow nocks. Thought I had pics of the finished dozen on PhotoBucket, but I can't find 'em. Solid olive green feathers with white, or black, I think are good, too. The leaves in my neck of the woods are pretty deep on the ground, so I like a lot of yellow or white in the fletch.
Killdeer
Killdeer, That is one cool looking arrow! I bet it smelled really good while making it! Where did you get those feathers? Any chance you might bring these along to Baltimore?
Those got sent to Red Boar in Florida. Wish I had them, but I'm now fletching up a few recycled AO's that were standing in the corner. Don't remember what they did to deserve such a long "time out", but they better not do it again!
Killdeer :D
Wow Kathy I can smell them from here :bigsmyl: I use flo green, I cant do pics because the wife dropped the camera in a puddle. And we all know what happens then :banghead:
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f137/swankeer/copperheadarrows001.jpg)
Smallwood, no harm. The guy with the 'pichers' sign reminds me of my distance running crew in high school and college. Well, except for the beard. :)
Appreciate the input thus far and hope to have some pictures for you at some point. Those wraps are VERY COOL. I'm leaning toward something barred or maybe straight white. Or going with something of a stealth mode to match the shafts. Or... Dang, I'm no closer to deciding yet. :)
heres my two cents hen feathers tre brown and cock feather tre yellow
http://gatewayfeathers.com/camo_feathers.html
i dont have any pics but you can see them on gateways website