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Title: Ugly Arrows
Post by: centaur on December 02, 2011, 09:26:00 PM
I generally try and make my arrows halfway attractive, but I am going to make a valiant attempt to shoot some Arizona quail before too long, so I think i will need some high visibility arrows. These would gag a maggot, but they sure ought to be able to be seen when they end up in some cholla thicket.
  (http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac67/peastes/1d7f2f22.jpg)
Anybody else make less than attractive arrows for purposes like stump shooting or small game?
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Dave Coalter on December 02, 2011, 09:33:00 PM
Gee I didn't know there was such a thing as an ugly arrow.    :)
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: karrow on December 02, 2011, 09:49:00 PM
ugly is wright   :)
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: moleman on December 02, 2011, 09:56:00 PM
Ive flash burned my eyes many times in my carreer as a welder but never from arrows till now.  :biglaugh:  Good luck on your hunt.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Canyon on December 02, 2011, 10:00:00 PM
I doubt you'll lose any but if I find those laying around in my AZ Quail haunts I know who to return them to.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Caleb Andes on December 02, 2011, 10:00:00 PM
They are all beautiful flying off the string..
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: RAU on December 02, 2011, 10:03:00 PM
I dont know what a cholla thicket is but i think your arrows look sharp!!! Like tracer rounds!!!
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: ron w on December 02, 2011, 10:04:00 PM
LOL.....UGLY????   :thumbsup:   I like'm
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: monterey on December 02, 2011, 11:17:00 PM
Did you fletch RW feathers in a LW jig?

Those aren't ugly!  They look better than my best arrows!  :D
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Brently on December 02, 2011, 11:21:00 PM
I make some ugly arrows also, they are yellow and red striped like a barber pole and use hot pink feathers. They are weird enough that they are easy to see out in the woods.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Plaigh on December 02, 2011, 11:32:00 PM
I was expecting to see some "ugly" arrows & I like em... But then again if it's not bright NEON it's not loud enough.   ;)
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Ground Hunter on December 03, 2011, 09:17:00 AM
Trouble is you will never loose them.    ;)
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: on December 03, 2011, 09:27:00 AM
Geesh....those are kinda ugly! I hope you find them and get your limit of quail.

Bisch
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Big Ed on December 03, 2011, 09:38:00 AM
Probably land a plane with those things.LOL
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: kat on December 03, 2011, 09:45:00 AM
Good visible colors there. I would say that you  did a fine job in accomplishing your goal.
They may not win any beauty contests, but you will be able to find them.  Good job.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: macksdad on December 03, 2011, 09:49:00 AM
Oughta be able to see them babies, they sure are ugly. LOL
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: BowHuntingFool on December 03, 2011, 10:32:00 AM
Good luck losing those ugly puppies! LOL!
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: wooddamon1 on December 03, 2011, 10:37:00 AM
Unplug those things! LOL
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: PaddyMac on December 03, 2011, 11:16:00 AM
y'know... I'm hunting in the snow right now with my white wraps and white nocks and white four fletch feathers and those look pretty damn good to me.

   :knothead:
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: owlbait on December 03, 2011, 12:10:00 PM
Here's some that were called ugly: maybe it's the pyschodelic wraps?
   (http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa7/owlbait/IMG_0707.jpg)
Good luck with the quail, sounds like fun.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: PaddyMac on December 03, 2011, 12:11:00 PM
Owlbait, groovy.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Doc Nock on December 03, 2011, 01:10:00 PM
All I read here tells me you're a dead-eye...

And we all know that the arrow falls where the bird does, right?

You'll just use them beacon arras to find your downed quail, ain't?  :)
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: centaur on December 03, 2011, 04:52:00 PM
Doc,
If you would have seen my shooting at a turkey a few hours ago, you would know that I am no dead eye. It wasn't pretty.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: RonL on December 03, 2011, 06:26:00 PM
Let us know how you do. And if you come across and old guy with a yellow lab and a 20 gage that could be me. I can't hit them with a shotgun let alone a bow.

RonL
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on December 03, 2011, 06:40:00 PM
You may see them ion the Challa thicket but chose not to go after them.

Its like that in our mulitfloral rose thickets.

I am fixing up some arrows for my nephew (age 4). They will have the ugly arrow contest beat!

I will post pics when done.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: centaur on December 03, 2011, 06:55:00 PM
Yeah, prickly pears are child's play compared to those dang jumping cactus.
RonL, I might see you out in the desert. I will be out around Queen Valley. Lots of those little running quail out there.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: arrow flynn on December 07, 2011, 12:29:00 AM
to each their own
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: sawtoothscream on December 07, 2011, 01:11:00 AM
my arrows are GT nuge arrows. they are pink zebra strip aand have white feathers.  i dont care what my arrows look like as long as they fly good and i can find them after i miss. haha
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on December 08, 2011, 06:47:00 PM
TTT

working on the uglies now.   ;)  

just wanted to keep this in sight for easy finding when I am done   :readit:  

Gotta show off the hideous things but you young ones might want to close your eyes.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Stump_pounder on December 08, 2011, 10:06:00 PM
I think Id stick with the shot gun
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: joe ashton on December 08, 2011, 10:54:00 PM
yup they are ugly!
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on December 11, 2011, 09:53:00 PM
As promised.  Here are my uglies. I fixed up some old arrows that were laying around, painted them with paint I already had and fletched them with feathers which were generously offered by a fellow tradganger Statedriller.  Thank you. They will go great with his new bow for Christmas.

   (http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m637/cjohntalk/Arrows/1323657149.jpg)

   (http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m637/cjohntalk/Arrows/1323657155.jpg)

Capped with Blaze Orange. Crested with Blue and Black. Fletched with green an white.

Oddly enough, I actually like them   :saywhat:    :knothead:
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: statedriller on December 12, 2011, 07:49:00 AM
Man, there isn't a clump of grass those arrows will be able to hide in...   :D
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: centaur on December 12, 2011, 07:55:00 AM
Yep, those babies are ugly as a mud fence. Not that mine are much to brag about.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: ron w on December 12, 2011, 08:52:00 AM
Ugly is good ......no one will steal your arrows   :biglaugh:
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on December 12, 2011, 10:26:00 AM
Figured Oliver, age 4 will be digging these out of the grass. Not only were they CHEAP but they will do, until I can make him some nice ones in a year or so.

He will be shooting at balloons from 10 yards or less for the winter.

Everytime he goes to Grandpas he asks to shoot the bows.  Albeit his attention span is short, he seems to love it.
Title: Re: Ugly Arrows
Post by: Doc Nock on December 12, 2011, 11:29:00 AM
Can you imagine if we'd have gotten into this at that young age! Wow! We'd either be wore down to a nub or darned good at it by now!

Excellent.

When they slither under the grass, don't matter how bright they are...but in the leaf duff, it does help!

I kinda like them... like some of those fancy pheasants, eh?  :)