I've been shooting either yellow or chartreuse feathers recently. But I'm looking to change it up. I like all three feathers to be the same color because I like to see a blur of one color out to the target a differnt cock feather gives me a wobbly effect in my mind, probably just my imagination. I'm thinking of going all blue with a yellow nock or all orange with a yellow nock. Give me your thoughts and opinions and pictures would help too! Thanks in advance, Paul
Pink, hard to loose an arrow with pink feathers.
I GO PINK ALSO A REAL GOOD BLURR OF COLOR THERE
I can loose pink arrows all day long.
But I do like pink on a chartruese wrap.
I like contrast on my target arrows but like chartreuse barred usually without a wrap on my hunting arrows.
If you want a blur of color when you shoot, have you tried fur tracers behind the Fletch.
I like pink or white. I also like orange feathers on a baby blue cap, like the vintage Bear arrows. I usually do three the same color for the same reason like you.
Blue shows up great. Nothing blue in the woods!
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Thanks for the opinions guys. That blue looks nice Seth! I'm leaning towars alll blue with yellow nock... like you said nothing blue in the woods.Thanks
I like all pink, but my favorite is all white because thats the color I see in flight the best.
I like chartreuse or florescent orange best. They show up great in flight during low light and since switching to those I seem to have a much better idea on exactly where I have hit an animal. That helps me to make good decisions on blood trailing and when to follow up.
For turkey hunting though I give up ability to see the arrow in flight and go with something dark and natural, usually natural barred turkey feathers. Turkeys see colors, and if I try going with high vis fletching with them they bust me more often than not.
You could use 2 yellow hen feathers & a yellow barred cock feather & a yellow nock.....??? :thumbsup:
Hot pink for me for everything except turkeys and then it's natural turkey feathers.
Thanks again for the input fellas. I find it interesting that orange or blue isn't that popular for fletch. Maybe they aren't that visible?
I find white the most visible in flight or in the target. A white fur tracer sure adds to the area of color facing me too.
Lot to be said for blue if you're trying to find an arrow in the grass, but I can't pick up the darker colors as well in flight.
My friend shoots orange and just this weekend we commented on how hard it was to see the fletching in the target. I'd avoid it and red.
I like white, flo pink, chartreuse, flo yellow for 3-D
I use 3 fletch the same color also. I use either white or flo. yellow. Here is a thought white crown with 3 blue base and 3 white spliced toward the nock, and a white nock.
You could the same with orange with white or flo. yellow towards the nock, and white, yellow, or orange nock.
By useing the white or flo. yellow towards the nock you will be able to see the arrow better. Just my thoughts.
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Thanks again for the input fellas. I find it interesting that orange or blue isn't that popular for fletch. Maybe they aren't that visible?
No shortage of opinion on fletch color!
I use no blue on any hunting equipment. Some research shows that the UV receptors in deer eyes see blue as a glowing object. Supposedly the glow is enhanced by laundry brighteners. The brighteners are also alleged to make even your camo glow!
I got busted by a lead cow when wearing blue jeans once. Light, wind, etc was all in my favor but she looked my way and turned back taking the whole herd with her.
Non flourescent Orange loses a lot of it's visibility in fading light. I'm another pink guy.
I think I should re-think the pink! It is so interesting to hear the different opinions concerning fletch colors...It's just as personnel if not more so than wood combo's for bow choices.
I do like yellow and chartreuse but was hoping for a change,maybe pink...
I've used blue and found that when the sun is up it is very visible, but it goes dark pretty quick when the sun goes down and before it's up. Chartreuse and white are still the best for me; haven't tried pink.
Team Pink....I like all Pink with a hot pink crown dip. Last year I made up all white arrows with white/chart feathers.
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Chartruese/White on my Bear hunting arrows
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Chartruese/White on my Doug Fir
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A 7" white wrap, with 5" white shield cut feathers. If there is snow on the ground. A chartreuse wrap with chartreuse feathers.
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I love to watch the arrows fly. Here is last year's bear hunting arrows...
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Everything looks better covered in blood...
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And here is this year's moose hunting arrows. I call these the "MV" fletch...
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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.
BLUE
you can spot it from a long way.
Im making some squirrel arrows soon and will use blue fletchings and blue cap wraps.
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.
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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...
By the way Mike tell me more about those MV feathers. Unique. Whats the reason for the drastic angle? Good flight?
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 .
Flo yellow and flo pink for me
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hard to beat pink, or yellow
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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"...
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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
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Flo yellow and flo pink for me
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Been using yellow and white but those are sharp. May have to trade out the white for pink
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.
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I'll always shoot yellow...just like it.
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.
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!
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.
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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!
Thank you, the quiver is a Bud's ST Jude Quiver. The quiver has been very good to me. The arrows are GT Blems with home made wild turkey fletching... I am relatively new to trad archery but not to bowhunting, I've always shot dark arrows. As far as seeing my arrows, I usually know where they're going when I loose them, lol. :goldtooth:
White, chartreuse, yellow, or bright red. Always the same color for all 3
I use all orange. Feathers, wraps, and nocks.
I think that pink and blue are the easiest to find in woods and grass. I use pink or blue for practice and stumping and fletch up some with natural barred for hunting.
Here's an interesting chart from the 'net that's used by RC aircraft folks: (http://i.imgur.com/C0dZ2EI.jpg)
And this from a page on ambulance visibility:
Green colours are located in the region of 490-560nm and yellow colours fall between 560-590nm.
During daylight conditions, human visual sensitivity peaks at 555nm, then shifting to 510nm when light is low. The reflectance values for lime-yellow paints (such as DuPont Imron 7741â,,¢) peak at 550nm during daylight and between 520-530nm at night. These reflectance values almost exactly match the peak human sensitivity curve under all viewing conditions (both photopic and scotopic vision).
The eye resolves green-yellow better than any other colour. Green-yellow is unaffected by the Krovkov effect. The colour performs well in fog and under adverse weather conditions such as heavy rain and overcast skies. Green-yellow is virtually unknown as a colour in nature and is rare as a motor vehicle colour. It contrasts with almost every urban and rural background.
Solomon states (p71) that a comparison between DuPont Imron lime-yellow (7744)TM and Imron red (674)TM paints demonstrates that lime-yellow has a peak eye response approximately 4.9 times greater than red during daylight conditions. At night, the response is approximately 93 times greater, due to red being practicably invisible at night.
In a lateral angle situation when two vehicles are crossing an intersection at 90 degrees to each other, lime-yellow is detected significantly earlier than red, providing a longer time period to react and initiate an avoidance response.:
When I bowhunt during NY rifle season, it's the only time I use a bow quiver and my arrows are crown dipped Flo Orange w/AMG flo orage feathers.
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White or yellow for me. Yellow for winter roving.
Joe,another simple yet beautiful set of arrows. Any problems seeing them in low light conditions?I'm happy to see other folks using all the same color fletch like myself. I was starting to feel "weird"! Those color charts are quite interesting also. Apparently a lot of time is put into this color game...
So would chartreuse be the lime/yellow color referred to??
That's my guess monterey. I do see that color the best. That hot pink may be hard to beat though...
And, just back from a rove in the spring growth - gotta fletch some more yellows!
I use white nocks and white feathers on fluorescent pink wrap. White feathers show up the best in flight and fluorescent pink shows up the best for me on the ground or in an elk.
according to that color chart orange is excellent.
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So would chartreuse be the lime/yellow color referred to??
It really depends on who makes them one company will call chartreuse, flow green. Another company will call chartreuse flow yellow. The next might call chartreuse, flo lime so it's kind of a guessing game until you get them from somewhere and get the ones you like and know what they call the color you like. Or you can do tons of research.
I always saw white about as well as anything. Bright yellow, red or orange also worked fairly well for me. Here lately I have been messing around with lighted nocks and they work really well! I am going to fletch up some hunting arrows with Black goose feathers and black vanes and just shoot them with a lighted nock.
Another reason I like using flo colors is the fact that they glow under uv light. Which has helped me find a lost arrow on several occasions. I wrap about a 2" piece of white reflective tape in front of my wraps and a 3/8's piece on my nock collars which helps locating them with white light.
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QuoteOriginally posted by monterey:
So would chartreuse be the lime/yellow color referred to??
It really depends on who makes them one company will call chartreuse, flow green. Another company will call chartreuse flow yellow. The next might call chartreuse, flo lime so it's kind of a guessing game until you get them from somewhere and get the ones you like and know what they call the color you like. Or you can do tons of research.
This is what Trueflight calls chartreuse. I think the actual feather may be slightly lighter than this picture shows. This is my choice for visibility.
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After seeing a good handful of those chartreuse or flo/green feathers I think I'll be going back to all three feathers Chartreuse in a shield cut with a matching cap color or white. Flecther those are a simple classy arrow! Thanks for sharing everyone.
I'm an all orange or yellow guy. Yellow and yellow barred looks sharp. Although my hunting arrows are all orange currently.
-Jeremy :coffee:
I had a wonderful weekend stumpshooting, and I can say that orange makes an arrow easy to find!
F-Manny
F-Manny, how were the orange arrows to see during flight? What type of feather cut were you using?
White, or Yellow or red
Interesting how cameras / computers influence how colors appear. One of my favorite combos is purple / chartreuse. These are more lavender / chartreuse and the cresting starts at my brace height.
homebru
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I went with chartreuse 4-fletch (5" long shield) on white wraps last Fall hunting and found that they blended too much with the aspen leaves in Colorado. This year I'll go with white 4-fletch on fluorescent pink wraps.
Orange and yellow disappear around here once the leaves change and start falling. I was out looking at my usual pink and white fletching today with the camera on my phone turned to black and white. I was a little surprised how bright would look to a deer. The pink turned a nice light gray and all but disappeared. My hunting arrows will be pink now!
All Orange on my arrows .
Yes you can see them in flight and they have good contrast on deer and bears . I rarely loose them when I miiiiss!
Had Gary at D & M Custom Arrows put these together this past year...figure they ought to show up under most conditions.
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I have shot some combination Hot Pink in the past for visibility but have started shooting Chartreuse colors more recently. I am happy with Chartreuse too for the visibility. Last seasons hunting shafts.
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Hmm! the fletches look more yellow in the picture. I really like these Super nocks too.
Here's a photo comparison of my old chartreuse fletching on fluorescent yellow wraps compared to my new white fletching on fluorescent pink wraps. The white fletching show up best in flight and the fluorescent pink wraps show up best in an animal or after a pass-thru. The chartreuse fletching look great but blend in too much with the foliage. (//%5Burl=http://s1077.photobucket.com/user/macdonaldarchitect/media/20150613_111050_zpswea6b6xt.jpg.html%5D%20%5Bimg%5Dhttp://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w469/macdonaldarchitect/20150613_111050_zpswea6b6xt.jpg)[/url] [/IMG]
I use different colors as the seasons change. Orange or Red in spring and summer and White or a combo with white,try finding red, orange, green, or yellow in the fall in the Midwest,deep into winter anything but White.
I love this thread! So many different opinions but it does seem like Chartreuse is very popular. Pinky those fletches in your picture look yellow but I think it's an illusion due to the bright yellow cap.I like the bright flo-green nocks too! LongbowArcitect I like both sets of fletches you have in the quiver.They do blend in so well with the background foliage but I bet they look great in flight or against the dark hair of an anmial. Like a tracer! I'm starting to think pink but goodness it just seems a bit out of in the woods.Thanks for all the input.
I like all yellow, all chartreuse, or all white for visibility. Having said that - I'm a fletching addict so my arrows tend to look different every season.
Another one that I can see very well in flight is the "lime" color from AMG Feathers. At low light conditions, that color literally glows.
Believe it or not, white is the easiest color for a deer to pick up. I avoid white while hunting. I use a 4 fletch, 4.5 inch parabolic, hot pink on uncrested doug fir shafts.
I use a camo fletching cover over my white fletching just in case Newhouse is correct.
I must say when hunting I'm an all red guy