Anyone use NAP QuickFletch?

[LeeBishop]

I know you guys are generally hardcore about basic archery when it comes to recurves and longbows.

However, I'm not in the position to have a workshop of my own and all of the gear to tinker with to make things with gear like fletching jigs.

So, I started using QuickFletch after last season because I am so far away from where I can go to a proshop or sporting goods shop selling gear for traditional archery.

It's easy to repair messed up arrows with a shrinkwrapping fletching like QuickFletch and it's pretty accurate.

However, you'd need to have an arrow rest instead of shooting off the shelf. I use a cheapo Martin Jaguar right now until I can afford to set myself up with proper arrows and a nice couple of wooden bows that aren't vintage (I have a couple of old bows from Pearson).

I'm just wondering if you guys have tried the stuff out and if you like it. I've found it to keep tight groupings, better than the 4'' silicon vanes.

Here is the sort of grouping I get at 20 yards.  I've been practicing just about every day for a few minutes when the heat cools off outside.  

I'm getting REALLY psyched for our early archery season this year on Sept. 15. I just hope we start getting rain so the bucks will come out of the river.

[jcar315]

Good shooting!

Never tried these though.....glad they work for you. Would love to see a picture of your bow set up.

[JamesKerr]

How is your arrow flight with those on there? I would suspect it wouldn't take that big of a broadhead to start causing planing problems.

[LeeBishop]

My arrow flight is fine. One of the arrows looks a bit skewed but the target is on rocks and it shifted on the first shot.

The fletching is helical with little grooves to help grab the air. It spins pretty quickly and stabilizes pretty well. I was surprised when I started shooting them. I think that helps to keep a wide broadhead from planing.

I'm using 135gr Zwickey Eskilite broadheads on cheapo Carbon Express 2117 aluminum shafts with the NAP QuickFletch.

The only way I can use those is by mounting a biscuit on the bow, but it's got an aluminum riser, so it's no big deal. I prefer it anyway so I not make noise with arrows while in the stand.

Jcar, this is what it looks like with how I've got it rigged.

 

I went with the Jaguar because it was cheap ($124) and I can beat it up in the woods and not worry about messing up a really nice bow. It's a beater.

[JamesKerr]

That's a neat idea with the whisker biscuit! My question is how does it effect your sight picture?

[LeeBishop]

Originally posted by JamesKerr:
That's a neat idea with the whisker biscuit! My question is how does it effect your sight picture?

Well my anchor point is my index finger in the corner of my mouth. So, it doesn't obstruct my view at all.  

I figured the whisker biscuit would allow me to be pretty versatile with the bow. I can just screw in a bow fishing reel and hit the water or whatever.

I'd still like some get some nice bows, like a Bob Lee, but this will hold me over until I can make some money in the future.

Picking up cut and feather fletched arrows from a bow shop is an expensive proposition for me right now. So, this biscuit allows me to pick up the cheapest of the cheap at Wal-mart or wherever to shoot with, no matter the type of fletching.

[NEB]

Lee,
I used to own a Quinn Stallion and shot the Quick Fletch vanes on carbon shafts off of a NAP flipper rest.  I had no problems stabilizing Snuffer 160s with them.  They are great vanes and darn near bomb proof.  Last year I was in a rush after my boy's football game to get down to my hunting camp to hunt the opening day afternoon. Somehow, in my haste, I pulled the arrow rest off of my bow and turned the screw. After getting it put back on I wanted to test my arrows before going to the stand. The only target I could fashion was a stack of cardboard ladder stand boxes.  I shot those broadhead arrows with the Quick Fletch completely through the boxes and none of the vanes were damaged. Awesome product, that also leaves no residue on your shafts because they are heat shrink.

[LeeBishop]

Well they don't like going through plastic targets. I have broken a couple of vanes off that way.

[Pon]

but, isn't these quickfletch expensive? I would think it is cheapear to use the same NAP vanes and a Arizona quickflecth or bohning jig

[LeeBishop]

Originally posted by Pon:
but, isn't these quickfletch expensive? I would think it is cheapear to use the same NAP vanes and a Arizona quickflecth or bohning jig

Well, NAP is definitely trying to make as much money as possible on these incredibly cheap products (plastic shrinkwrap).

They have repackaged them this year and it caught me off guard. I got rooked. I grabbed three boxes thinking I had picked up eighteen vanes, but I actually left with nine...

Last year I got packages of six of them for $12.50 from a small sporting goods shop.

However, they are now selling them in 3pk boxes for $9 at walmart.

So yeah, they are ridiculously expensive now it seems. That would mean $18 per half dozen. They were a good deal for someone like me in the middle of nowhere without jigs for $12 per half dozen ($2 per arrow) since it seems to cost me $3-$4 per arrow to be fletched at a shop.

But now that they are licensing out garbage like "The Bone Collector Edition" on their wraps they are costing more.

I'm looking for some cheap ones again.

[Bowwild]

I haven't tried them with recurves. Before I switched I put some on other arrows for a different type of bow.

They were pretty slick and this is from someone who has a half-dozen different fletching jigs.

I'd consider them on my recurves that I shoot from rests.

[RedShaft]

hey, it works. nothing wrong with it. nothing wrong with using that style rest either. hey look at it this way.. you wont get wet feathers!