ORIGINAL: Washington Hunter
The arrow being too short is understandable (at least on my end). We've got tubes attached to the wall of our range with several different lengths of several different brands of arrows. We use these to tune people's bows [who don't provide their own] or for people to test bows with. The arrows aren't marked, but put back into their respective tubes.
This particular arrow happened to have been placed in the incorrect tube.
Dan;
Here is a tip to keep that from happening again. I did this at my shop as well, and it has proven totally effective.
Those arrows, as you listed, are easy to confuse length wise. So what I do is take a narrow pointed sharpie pen and write the total length on one of the hen feathers. On the other, I write the total weight, with tip, as we usually leave the field points in place. That way anyone wanted to check speed, but who does not for whatever reason have an arrow can find one that is relatively close to his/her arrow weight. And it keeps everybody safe.
Just a thought.
