shooting in trees

PartridgeStalker25 · August 25, 2014, 09:20:00 AM

Went squirrel hunting yesterday shot at 3 up in trees got 2 of them the 3rd was high and missed. Spent an hour looking for my arrow it was 6 fletch flu flu with judo couldn't find it. Thinking about trying some cheap cedars with spiral flu flus and cheap blunts just for shots in the trees. How do you avoid losing your arrows or do you just not take those shots? Hoping to get a partridge this year but my dog likes to go with me and flush them before I get a ground shot.

Slickhead · August 25, 2014, 09:37:00 AM

spiral flus will scare a squirrel before it reaches them. Sounds like a winged predator coming.
Maybe if they are real close.

Really no way to prevent losing arrows. Limit shots to ground and dont take tree shots unless the are facing the tree (not on sides or limbs)

Dont invest more in arrows than you are willing to lose when hunting small game ....is my best advise

Pat B · August 25, 2014, 10:01:00 AM

A nutter is a very good squirrel head and very cheap. Use very bright feather colors that are not natural in nature.

KenH · August 25, 2014, 10:23:00 AM

Cheap arrows, bright colors, big feathers but not spirals, cheap home-made blunts or judo points.

Slickhead · August 25, 2014, 01:57:00 PM

yep
I second the homemade blunts.
A field point filed flat on the tip.
Cut base 4 times at an angle and flare out " make shift" bleeder blades.
Acts as adder point type head.

Can file sharp.

August 25, 2014, 02:32:00 PM

I use older cedars or ones that have had the head break off. I use blunts and pull the blunt onto the arrow shelf, net length arrows fly good. I used to make flu flu arrows for squirrels, but they still flew too far. Now I use shoot aways, I am amazed how easy it is to find a old beater arrow that still flies good and how hard it is to find a new pretty arrow.

Gordon Jabben · August 27, 2014, 10:20:00 PM

Pavan is right. Unless you're a rich man, you have to come up with some cheap losable arrows. On cedar arrows for squirrels, I prefer field points as most of our trees here in Oklahoma are hard enough for the field points to bounce out of with the exception of our cottonwood trees. The field points will stay in the squirrel better than blunts and you will be less likely to loose the squirrel. Judos are terrible about sticking in trees. I splice or foot my broken arrows back together to same money. Here is a picture of some being put back together.

old_goat2 · August 27, 2014, 11:07:00 PM

Sometimes they land in the tree branches, so don't forget to look up also for your arrows and keep a sharp look out in case they get blown out of the trees.

Jerry Jeffer · August 28, 2014, 02:14:00 AM

Arrow probably still in the tree.