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Title: Dry Fletching
Post by: monk on October 28, 2012, 09:12:00 PM
What is your BEST method of keeping your feather fletching dry?
Title: Re: Dry Fletching
Post by: on October 28, 2012, 09:16:00 PM
Don't hunt in the rain!  :knothead:  

I have tried feather powder and sprays and the best i have found is Scotchguard. If they really get wet though, the feathers will still lay down.

Bisch
Title: Re: Dry Fletching
Post by: magnus on October 28, 2012, 09:41:00 PM
Use natural turkey or goose fletching.
Title: Re: Dry Fletching
Post by: JamesKerr on October 28, 2012, 09:58:00 PM
I hate those powders that are supposed to keep your fletchings dry. I used them one time a couple years ago. After practicing with my broadhead arrows that day, I put some of the powder on them as it was expected to rain. Come the next morning it did not rain. I did get a shot that morning though and when I released you would have thought a muzzleloader went off because of all the smoke like powder that came off my arrow. I decided right then and there to get a quiver like the Arrowmaster that covers your fletching when hunting in the rain.
Title: Re: Dry Fletching
Post by: archeryx on October 28, 2012, 10:10:00 PM
Swish the fletched end of the arrow around in some Black Magic tire wet.  Whip the arrow several times to shake off excess and let dry a couple of days.  I had a friend who did this and after a year of shooting that arrow.  He dipped it in a tank of water and swished it around.  He then whipped the arrow a couple of times and the feathers retained their normal shape and there was hardly any moisture in them.  Must be the silicone in the tire wet.
Title: Re: Dry Fletching
Post by: Terry Lightle on October 29, 2012, 06:27:00 AM
What magnus said
Title: Re: Dry Fletching
Post by: Paul WA on October 29, 2012, 01:39:00 PM
I use a Jack Bowers side quiver with the hood and put 1/2 a bread bag over the fletching. I also use a product called no snow which works well...PR