I shoot feathers exclusively... I've not even found it to be a problem in the rain; the way I look at it, if it's such a downpour that I'm worried about my feathers getting soaked and not performing well, I shouldn't be taking more than a 20-yard shot anyway -- to ensure a perfect hit so that my bloodtrail is not washed away too quickly.

Two things come to mind, though: One, I've shot field-tipped arrows with saturated feathers in downpours at leaves on the the forest floor and still nailed the leaf I was shooting at, so in my mind that debunks that myth, and --Two, I probably get to sit on stand about as much as anyone in this forum, I would bet --easily close to 150 trips over the last two years. I could count on one hand the number of absolute downpours I sat through. Now admittedly, I do consider myself older and wiser, and have learned that it's pointless for me to head to the woods when it'snot going torain cats and dogs all day and not let up before dark -- I've yet to see a big deer move in our area when it's raining that hard, and I tried for several years.