Bowhunting in the rain...
10-08-2008, 09:26 AM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: West Tennessee
Posts: 2,333
RE: Bowhunting in the rain...
ORIGINAL: nissan300ztt
I hunt in rain snow sleet. dont matter. The only thing i would tell people is in my experience if you use feathers the rain will saturate the feathers and slow the arrow down significantly. But with modern feathers not so much. And with my arrows from oak ridge archery donnie staggers the blazer zanes @1.5" from the back toward the front of the arrow. It helps stabilize the arrow and makes wind a non factor.
I hunt in rain snow sleet. dont matter. The only thing i would tell people is in my experience if you use feathers the rain will saturate the feathers and slow the arrow down significantly. But with modern feathers not so much. And with my arrows from oak ridge archery donnie staggers the blazer zanes @1.5" from the back toward the front of the arrow. It helps stabilize the arrow and makes wind a non factor.
(Sorry.... had to ask.)
10-08-2008, 09:29 AM
#24
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
RE: Bowhunting in the rain...
ORIGINAL: LittleChief
What's the difference between "modern" feathers and the older model feathers? Did the birds make an improvement to themover the past few years I wasn't aware of?(Sorry.... had to ask.)
ORIGINAL: nissan300ztt
I hunt in rain snow sleet. dont matter. The only thing i would tell people is in my experience if you use feathers the rain will saturate the feathers and slow the arrow down significantly. But with modern feathers not so much. And with my arrows from oak ridge archery donnie staggers the blazer zanes @1.5" from the back toward the front of the arrow. It helps stabilize the arrow and makes wind a non factor.
I hunt in rain snow sleet. dont matter. The only thing i would tell people is in my experience if you use feathers the rain will saturate the feathers and slow the arrow down significantly. But with modern feathers not so much. And with my arrows from oak ridge archery donnie staggers the blazer zanes @1.5" from the back toward the front of the arrow. It helps stabilize the arrow and makes wind a non factor.
(Sorry.... had to ask.)
10-08-2008, 09:36 AM
#25
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Scranton, PA
Posts: 408
RE: Bowhunting in the rain...
Use trukey feathers and you wont have the problem. If you use chicken feathers, just spray them with silicone spray. Problem solved. When I use chicken feathers, I spray them with silicon because dew can colapse them as well a rain.
10-08-2008, 09:42 AM
#26
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Bowhunting in the rain...
ORIGINAL: nissan300ztt
Exactly some people dont know what type of feathers are being put on there arrows. And also high poundage bows shouldnt use feathers anyway, the fletchings collapse on release and there is no stabilization. for a good 10 yards. Trust me try to find some high speed footage of feathers. they collapse and you get sort of an archers paradox in a way.
Use trukey feathers and you wont have the problem. If you use chicken feathers, just spray them with silicone spray. Problem solved. When I use chicken feathers, I spray them with silicon because dew can colapse them as well a rain.
I doubt that!
10-08-2008, 09:58 AM
#27
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location:
Posts: 7,571
RE: Bowhunting in the rain...
ORIGINAL: Schultzy
What??? I've never heard of that before. I doubt that!
ORIGINAL: nissan300ztt
Exactly some people dont know what type of feathers are being put on there arrows. And also high poundage bows shouldnt use feathers anyway, the fletchings collapse on release and there is no stabilization. for a good 10 yards. Trust me try to find some high speed footage of feathers. they collapse and you get sort of an archers paradox in a way.
Use trukey feathers and you wont have the problem. If you use chicken feathers, just spray them with silicone spray. Problem solved. When I use chicken feathers, I spray them with silicon because dew can colapse them as well a rain.
I doubt that!
10-08-2008, 10:04 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: West Tennessee
Posts: 2,333
RE: Bowhunting in the rain...
ORIGINAL: Schultzy
What??? I've never heard of that before. I doubt that!
ORIGINAL: nissan300ztt
Exactly some people dont know what type of feathers are being put on there arrows. And also high poundage bows shouldnt use feathers anyway, the fletchings collapse on release and there is no stabilization. for a good 10 yards. Trust me try to find some high speed footage of feathers. they collapse and you get sort of an archers paradox in a way.
Use trukey feathers and you wont have the problem. If you use chicken feathers, just spray them with silicone spray. Problem solved. When I use chicken feathers, I spray them with silicon because dew can colapse them as well a rain.
I doubt that!
1. Wet feathers still steer a broadhead just fine.
2.Wetfeathers don't slow the arrow down much at all if any. (As soon as all of that stored energy hits the arrow, the water that is in the feather is left behind in a cloud of mist.)
10-08-2008, 10:07 AM
#29
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Indiana
Posts: 1,131
RE: Bowhunting in the rain...
ORIGINAL: NCRemington700
If you shoot another one with the Rage you won't have to worry about tracking!
If you shoot another one with the Rage you won't have to worry about tracking!
10-08-2008, 10:12 AM
#30
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Posts: 3,465
RE: Bowhunting in the rain...
ORIGINAL: nissan300ztt
I hunt in rain snow sleet. dont matter. The only thing i would tell people is in my experience if you use feathers the rain will saturate the feathers and slow the arrow down significantly. But with modern feathers not so much. And with my arrows from oak ridge archery donnie staggers the blazer zanes @1.5" from the back toward the front of the arrow. It helps stabilize the arrow and makes wind a non factor.
I hunt in rain snow sleet. dont matter. The only thing i would tell people is in my experience if you use feathers the rain will saturate the feathers and slow the arrow down significantly. But with modern feathers not so much. And with my arrows from oak ridge archery donnie staggers the blazer zanes @1.5" from the back toward the front of the arrow. It helps stabilize the arrow and makes wind a non factor.
