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Awe come on fellas, you know I just like to stir the pot now and then and play the contrarian guy. Some call it being a Crotchetty Old Fart. I just call it being a pain in the AZZzzzzz.[8D][8D][8D] I can see where someone might see an arrow flight a little better, but at that point you've already done it right or wrong and must suffer the consequences. And as Steven A would say, Quite Frankly, most people can't read sign, blood on an arrow or crap after the shot. You still, no matter how visible your arrow flight is have to read the sign and track the critter. AND, I learned a long LONG time ago one critical thing, "What we see or think we saw is not always the case". I can give you examples that are a lot more frequent than not finding an arrow. If I had played what I saw and not what was on or missing on the ground I'd have been screwed. Maybe one of the reasons I don't loose arrow fletchings is I don't ware them out. The first thing I do when I buy new arrows is fly them all with field points and then broadheads. The great flyers keep the broadhead, with new inserts installed, and are not shot again until a deer is in front of them. I will occasionally throw on an old insert and check them out during the season, but for the most part they aren't fired until they hit whitetail. They're virtually new except for tuning/testing. I have no problems saying I never lost a fletching off a hunting arrow in the woods. I shouldn't happen or they were piss poor to begin with.

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And that's why you're our favorite non-mod!! ;)

Speaking of the sign after the shot, that's yet another reason I like my white wraps and white blazers. I get a true feel as to the color of the blood. It always seemed to me that blood always looked darker on my carbon arrows.

I'm not sure what you mean by I suppose you are referring to watching the arrow instead of the target, thus pulling your head and not having a proper follow through. I guess that's what you mean anyway. And I say yeah, maybe to a point, but for me anyway, there aren't really any consequences. Even if you keep your eye on the target you should still see the arrow at some point, unless you just miss terribly, oh, by say a tree jumping in front of the deer. That never happens to me...[&:] Anyway, it certainly does aid in seeing where you've hit the animal. But like I said earlier.....as long as I look good doing it...;) Hey, I need all the help in that department I can get.

As I am confident you know, archery is an extremely personalized sport. I mean, back in the day when you guys started ( I don't mean that in a negative fassion, I feel those of you that shoot traditional and killed deer when deer were scarce have a wealth of knowledge I could only dream of) there just weren't nearly as many options as there are today. Today, at least for me, I like to stand out and be a little different than everybody else. I've started several "trends" at the shop and that somehow forces me to be constantly changing, but thanks to bowmanhunters arrow wraps, I've been able to keep my arrows this way for quite some time. Besides, since I work at the shop building arrows, people pay more attention to what I shoot. And hey, if I can sell a dozen wraps that wouldn't have been sold, good for us, huh. :D;)

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Aaah, the grasshoppers will learn not to jump into David's webs he so wonderfully weaves! ;)[8D]

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No web was woven. HE misspoke about the benefits of crowning arrow shafts and thats about all there is too it.

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I put wraps on all my hunting arrows and will be shooting lumenoks come season as well. I lost 4 arrows in the last 2 seasons. Where I live there isn't an over-abundance of tress, so I spend my archery season on the ground, spot an stalk in CRP, cattail sloughs, corn fields, etc. After my arrows zip thru a deer, there is about a 10% chance of finding that arrow. The 2 deer I shot last year with my bow, first one was shot at 10 yards on the ground, took me 6 hours to find my arrow which went thru the deer and 30 yards after that. Only way I found that arrow (metal detector didn't pick it up) a lil varmint found my arrow an pulled it out of the grass/stalks enuf and chrewed on my vanes. Second arrow is officially MIA.

I guess it all depends on your hunting style, and how "blingin" you want your arrows to be! hehe

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I'd use wraps if I hunted at night too.[8D][8D][8D][8D]

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Hey, don't you know the really big ones come out at night? [&:]:D