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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: 8up on January 07, 2007, 02:20:00 PM
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Whether you miss a target or pass the a deer? I know it aggravates me and gets expensive. So today I had a thought. If deer can't see hunter's orange, then why not paint arrows that color. It would make it a lot easier to see them. Ok tell me what you think.
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Good thought 8up. I've used white, yellow, flourescent lime green, flourescent pink (really loud), and those arrows still can still evaporate into thin air.
-Ken
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They may not see them but hunter orange isn't pretty to me !! Anyhow thats what I think, other than that I don't see why you couldn't. I have stained a couple red for stump shooting but usally just used last years hunting arrows
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As long as I don't have anybody sighing behind me, or waiting on me to accompany them to the next target, I enjoy searching for arrows! Poking around in the woods is what I love, and it doesn't much matter what the motivation is.
That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! :readit:
Killdeer :jumper:
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I think bright arrows would be a great idea...Alot of the best shots I know use chartreuse, yellow or white feathers and light color nocks...Myself included...Not only easy to find but will assist you with instictive shooting...
Granted they my not be pretty...But a bright arrow in flight is gonna help your brain remember its trajectory...
Good Luck... >>-----> mike <-----<<
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i'm with killy.thats mainly why i miss targets.
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I wrap a thin strip of reflective tape on mine. If I don't find it right away, I can always come back after dark with a light for another chance. :p
Since I shoot ACCs mostly, I save a bunch of time by using my metal detector on those buried buggers. :D
I'm sure my metal detector has paid for itself in saved arrows. :)
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Sometimes I find them way out behind my target out yonder and wonder who the heck as been shooting at my target and how they get my arrows
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metal detector!
Dan
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I always use bright colors for fletching and nocks. It does make it easier to find arrows, but sometimes they just disappear anyway. I figure those were sacrificed to the arrow gods. I like to make arrows so it doesn't really matter.
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I trained both my labs to find lost arrows. Pretty easy task for them compared to a 250 yard blind retrieve. Plus, the love to do it!!! :thumbsup:
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I THINK (Use Following Info At Your Own Risk) :thumbsup:
They have Barred and Full Colored Feathers Offered.Looks Like They Offer a Full Length, dont know about Pre-Cuts.
I bet Lost Nation, or 3 Rivers Sells 'em!! :archer:
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I like a bright cap, bright nock, and bright feathers. Chartruese and yellow show up best for me (I have tried flourescent orange, white, etc.). Down side is at tournaments, if you are the first shooter and make a good shot, your arrow becomes the target (at least with the bunch I shoot with).
Chad
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I might have shot at your arrows a time or two Chad. If you didn't center them in the ten ring so often they would be safe.
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I use solid yellow from nock to point. It's not purty but at least I find most of them.My 2cents :D :D :D
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All my hunting arrows are crown dipped Blaze Orage, Flo Pink, Flo Chartruese and white. My feathers are Chart on all floruescents and Pink on the white dip. Very easy to see all your hits and find your misses and I never had a deer spook from the colors yet....and I hunt from the ground
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ND Terminator made a very good point about training his labs to find arrows...A couple of seasons ago we were shooting a 3D course with 12 inches of snow on the ground...If it wasn't for a friends dog finding over and under shot arrows...We would have gone home with empty quivers... :) ...
With fresh, undisturbed snow you can look for the little entry hole of your arrow...But if it's covered with foot prints from other archers walking about...It is near impossible without a dog... ;) ...
>>-----> mike <-----<<
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I use a 8" flourescent orange crown dip with four 5 1/2" white or yellow shield cut fletching. The deer don't seem to mind. I like to watch them fly. I still end up making new arrows every year.
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:knothead: I thought I'd be smart and fletched up a doz. white crown dipped with three 5" floresnt orange feathers, orange cresting and orange nocks, thinking I'd never loose them. They went quicker than my green fletched arrows ever thought about. I just learned not to miss. :goldtooth:
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I made up a set of flu-flu's that are fluor orange from one end to the other with fluor yellow feathers and nock. I figure the orange will glow under snow and the yellow will stand out in the weeds. As it turned out, those yellow feathers showed up better and better as it got darker (we were shooting aerials after a day of stumbling around in the woods. Oops, I meant after a day of rabbit hunting!
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Pics below are this years hunting arrows. White dip with Flo Pink partial. Pink feathers and chartruese. Artificial light makes the flo pink look red...buts it not.
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Dang those are bright Joe! You still have JDA Naturals, I haven't seen those in awhile.
David
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Dave...I still have one dozen left of the Original Naturals that Dougherty gave me back in '82. I'm going to be sending them to Mike's Archery next week to get cut and swagged. That was one great color...
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Well I have made almost every color arrow you can think of. One thing I have found is that reds, yellows, oranges, browns, blacks, and greens are all found naturally in the woods. You have to pick a color which is NOT natural. White works ,but not in the snow. I have found blue to be the easiest to find in the woods.
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I made up a few dowel arrows this year for flinging at squirrels. Those seem to be the ones I lose a lot of, so I spray painted them blaze orange. When I hunted, I carried 3 broadheads (shafts all natural, and fletch natural turkey feathers), and 2 of these blaze orange shafts (natural turkey feathers) in a bow quiver. I was in a tree during bow season when I noticed movement about 300 yards away. It was my brother, who was working his way through the woods in my general direction. I figured he would never see me since I was pretty well hidden where I was but he came right toward me as if on a string. When he got under my stand he pointed out that the minute he had topped the rise (probably 300 yards away), those 2 orange shafts were glowing and he saw me instantly.
So, in addition to their value in helping find arrows (which they do), I guess you need to think about whether you want everybody seeing you from a mile away, too. Not a problem to me, so I'll keep using them, I guess. They do help me find the arrows.
B
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nope i wouldnt know anything about bright arrows ....
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I can lose any color arrow.
There was this one infamous "un-loseable 50 cent K-Mart aluminum arrow" we used to try and lose every year at the old "Broken Arrow" deer camp though. It was gamegetter green with one dull yellow and two pale green vanes. It had a translucent pink nock that didn't look especially bright but you could always pick it out in the grass or a bed of leaves, no matter how much you didn't care to find it.
I offered to lose it for good one day. I picked out a dead tree about 50 yards back in the timber and let it fly. It hit a limb high up in the tree and literally knocked the limb from the tree. (so much for under powered stick bows eh?) I walked back into the woods and low and behold, there it was; sticking straight up in the air out of the dead branch; still straight! I retrieved it and took it back to camp. I said "Well if we can't lose it, we may as well display it for everyone to see" so I shot it high up into the trunk of an old cottonwood tree that we used to camp next to. That tree had an arrow from every year we camped there. Kinda looked like a ladder after awhile. As far as I know, that arrow is still there.
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I too use chartreuse fletching and wraps, its not always easy to find the stragglers. They have a way of hiding pretty good. I resort to the metal detector when they put up a good fight,
but have giving up hope for a few, and won't miss them all that much. Kinda like when I would golf with my Dad and one of us would hit an errant shot. After about 2 minutes of looking, he would say- thats enough looking- they make millions of them every day for guys like me that lose them.....
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I've dipped arrows in vermillion and crested them in all white feathers. Believe me, they still disappear!
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Yep, I've aimed at Chad's arrows a few times. :D
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At a 3D shoot a few years back my friend lost an arrow and we had looked for ten minutes for it.
A guy coming up behind us had a lab with him. He saw what we were doing and signaled the dog in.Bingo the dog had that arrow pointed in less than 20 seconds! It was burried under a bunch of brush and we never would have found it. I was totally amazed.
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I use camouflage arrows because I am never behind the Target looking for arrows :bigsmyl: :biglaugh:
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I go with yellow, orange and some with blue on the nock end. Yellow and blue show up good. Don't use blue for trukey hunting.
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I carry a homemade arrow hook in my quiver. Just drag it through the grass and you can locate a lot of lost arrows. Works better than my metal detector.
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If you are willing to use aluminum or carbon, camo and dull all the way, you cant beat a lighted nock. The glow in the grass like an orange flashlight! LEDs are awesome.
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I think I'm joining the stampede to shoot solid yellow, too, Big Dave.
I've noticed others shooting them and they show up nice.
I've got reflective tape on my hunting arrow already; and it shows up.