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Offline rickyp

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Fletching colors
« on: February 13, 2007, 06:33:54 AM »
What is your favorite Fletching colors or combinations?

Lets see pictures of them.

I just ordered 200 red and 100 white.

I got 24 blue and 12 gray fletchings at walmart on sale for $3.00 to try out my new jig. they look good on my arrows but I bet they will be hard to find in the dark woods

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Re: Fletching colors
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2007, 09:25:14 AM »
My favorites are turkey feathers.

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Re: Fletching colors
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2007, 09:37:41 PM »
I bought a bunch of feathers from a friend that were yellow and some green. ( Go Pack LOL ) and some blue  got a really good deal on them but if I were going to buy them myself I think I would buy all white that really stands out when your shooting them against darker targets and deer.
Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use it.

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Re: Fletching colors
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2007, 01:50:34 PM »
I shoot all white as JH45Gun had mentioned...   It helps to follow the bolt to the target!       
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Re: Fletching colors
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2007, 03:21:54 PM »
The only concern I would have wiht all white is that some overzellus hunter may take a quiver full of white fletched arrows for the white on a deer and decide to take a stupid shot. This would be the same with my red vanes when turkey hunting.

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Re: Fletching colors
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2007, 07:13:45 PM »
If the guy is that stupid and careless than I do not think it would matter what color you were using or wearing for that matter.
Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use it.

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Re: Fletching colors
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2007, 06:35:00 AM »
some people are so obsessed with shooting a deer they do not use there brains.

I just got my vanes in and It looks like I will be shooting 1 white and two reddish / pink  The duravanes savage is not a true red  :-[



these are some of  the "red" and white vanes on my new Realtree 2219 arrows

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Re: Fletching colors
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2007, 01:42:07 PM »
The only concern I would have wiht all white is that some overzellus hunter may take a quiver full of white fletched arrows for the white on a deer and decide to take a stupid shot. This would be the same with my red vanes when turkey hunting.

    Do you not wear hunter orange when X-bow hunting during Gun seasons?   If a bowhunter gets that close you should know it and should say something to him..  Have never had a problem with this.  But I do know, where your coming from on this one..
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Re: Fletching colors
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2007, 03:21:44 PM »
I just got my ten point Phantom so this is the first year I will be hunting with a cross bow.
I have been hunting for about 25 years and yes I do have on hunter orange during the gun seasons but when some hunters has what he / she thinks is a deer in the sights that is all they think about. They don't thin anyone else could be around. I have been in my tree stand on private land during gun season and heard a shot then a few seconds hear a thump hit a tree a few yards from me.