Homemade lighted nocks
 

I found this link on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Archery+homemade+lighted+nock

Its a real aesy wat to make your own lighted nocks for about $3.50 a piece. I just made my first one and it works great. I bought the bobber and light at my local bait shop for $7 but I found just the replacement lights online for $3.49.

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Here is another build along:

http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=037004;p=1

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Good link, I think I'll try the rubber tubing next time.

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Guys.....they're $9 (lumenoks) and they last a while. Why would you want to build your own?

Just curious?????

If you count your time and fuel costs (along with your materials and tools).....what have you really saved?

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GMMAT..you can buy crested arrows & longbows etc etcand such too..why make'em yourself. It's fun, it's a hobby. I've made lighted nocks it's cheap and easy.

Plus the ones I bought didn't last nearly as long.

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That's cool. I was just wondering if people found them cost prohibitive. If I had to get them on all my arrows.....I'd think they were.....but I usually onlyget one shot (don't we all???....lol).....so I keep it on the arrow I keep nocked. The rest don't have them. I "might" use 2 a yr (one, this past yr.....that I lost).

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I guess $72 a dozen. Assuming lumenocks cost $9 a piece, that you have the tools, and that you pickup the materials while you're already at the store shopping for other things.

Never really used either. But I do know that they may come in handy. The other day I wasshooting at the club at a Buffalo Target at about 60 yards over a ravine. Couldn't see where the arrows were impacting from where I was standing.

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I enjoy making them as well.
I did have a problem with glueing the junction together, I like the idea in the second link to drill a hole in the side of the nock.
Thanks for the links :)

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Cool, I guess, Bob.....that'd be $6 a yr if you only used one!

And I agree that they do come in handy. I appreciated having mine when I was sighting in my new bow a month ago.

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I guess, if I only used one, I'd have to put some weight on the back of all the other arrows that I use in order to keep the same FOC and arrow weight. In the scenerio that I used, it would have been nice to use six. I'm assuming that a person would want them on all their arrows. Maybe I'm wrong. Like I said, I've never used them before. But I would want all my arrows consistant.

As you can probably tell, I also go through a lot of arrows. I'll usually bust/bend one everytime few times that I go to the club.