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Brightest Fletching at Dusk

Started by Talondale, August 22, 2008, 11:50:00 AM

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Talondale

I've always gone with muted fletching so I didn't have to worry about it alerting game. Grey with blue or green/blue.  I've decided now that I want something a little more visible during those first and last 30 minutes of light.  I can't follow my arrow flight, especially if under a canopy of trees and aiming at a dark deer.  I'm not sure I want white feathers during hunting season and was wondering what fletching colors show up real well during the lower light conditions.  Suggestions?

Orion

My brother uses flourescent yellow/chartreuse.  Very bright.  According to him, he hasn't had problems spooking game with the bright fletching.

Peachey


swampbuck

I shoot 4 4" 2 fl yellow 2 pink ...they stand out pretty good
Shoot straight and have FUN!!

PA stickbow boy

a chartreuse arrow wrap w/ 3 5" chartreuse feathers shows up great... it's almost like they glow
Keep the sun at your back and the wind in your face.

BobW

don't re-do your set up.  Put on feather tracers.  I use fl yellow / lime green.  Show outstanding....
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blueline

I think everyones eye's pick up a little different. However for me the chartreuse is great, I also will be using barred hot pink this year.
Blueline

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Morrison 58" 54 @ 28
Bear grizzly 58" 45@28

DEERDOG

Same here as PA stickbow boy. The wrap really helps out!
"Go afield with a good attitude, respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience.It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person."

Fred Bear

Apex Predator

Chartreuse for me, but everyone sees things a little differently.
I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables!

mnbwhtr

Whats wrong with white? Been going that way for over 30 years and It works for me. Slip over cover for bow quiver hides and protects from rain.

Danny Roberts

I shoot Fred Bear's 'ole favorite, orange, and don't have any problems. Good luck !

Pat B

White tracers work very well in low light. I have found white to work best of any color under all conditions. If you look around the woods you hunt in you will see, naturally, every color from white to black and all colors in between...and deer don't see colors as we do.    
 I used to use a white crown dip and red barred feathers with a 1" white splice at the back and white plastic nocks. In low light conditions, they were hard for me to see.   Pat
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!
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woodchucker

I like Chartruse.....(but Joe Skipp will say....."Think Pink")
I only shoot WOOD arrows... My kid makes them, fast as I can break them!

There is a fine line between Hunting, & Sitting there looking Stupid...

May The Great Spirit Guide Your Arrows..... Happy Hunting!!!

imskippy

I've always had some sort of combo with 2 whites and purple or blue. This year I'm making up some cedars with 2 whites and 1 flo. orange. It looks pretty bright. I may dip them white aswell. Skippy
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Red Beastmaster

White looks too much like a deer tail to be safely used here in PA. The morons in charge of things here allow rifles and in-lines in Oct. My buddy was almost shot at because of his white feathers.

Personally, I use chartruse and orange w/flourescent yellow nock.
There is no great fun, satisfaction, or joy derived from doing something that's easy.  Coach John Wooden

Talondale

Found this thread while looking for the glow nocks thread.  More info about the same subject.
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=051526;p=3
Looks like I'll have to experiment.  I put white nocks on last year but can't see them much better than the chartruse nocks I had on before.  Will try to get some maribo feathers tonight and still looking for the lighted nock thread.  I figure fishing stuff should be on clearance and I might be able to find the bobber lights cheap.

Onestringer

Flo Yellow works for me, but I am going to shoot pink this year.  I am comfortable in my manhood and there is nothing pink in the wood, and I need all the help I can get finding my arrows.
Sights, SIGHTS, we don't need no stinkin sights!!!!!

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Pat B

Red, if they are stupid enough to shoot at a flash of white then they are stupid enough to shoot at sounds. You had better wear bells as you walk through the woods. javascript:void(0)
Wink  
 I am fortunately to hunt private land and have never had to worry about being in the same block of woods with a thousand other guys.     Pat
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!
TGMM Family of the Bow

BobW

Tracers on Black & Red feathers....

 

The tracers lay down on the shot, so no effect on arrow.  You will see them in flight, though it will not work to diagnose arrow flight issues.

Good luck.

BobW
"A sagittis hungarorum libera nos Domine"
>>---TGMM-Family-of-the-Bow--->
Member: Double-T Archery Club, Amherst, NY
St. Judes - $100k for 2010 - WE DID IT!!!!

Talondale

Well I mix it up between private & public (and sometimes my private property seems public, stupid poachers/tresspassers).  I've been using reflective white arrow wraps and nocks and still can't see the flight that well so I'm thinking of ways to brighten it up since most of my buck shots come in those low light situations. So I'm thinking lighted nocks and experiment with a couple tracer colors.

SteveO had some lighted nock demos that I found:
 http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=329794  

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMqLT-4ezzk

KyleAllen did one back on 06
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=037004;p=1


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