Deer902

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.

BobCo19-65

Here is another build along:

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

Deer902

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

GMMAT

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?

GR8atta2d

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.

GMMAT

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).

BobCo19-65

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.

SIDEWAYS

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

GMMAT

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.

BobCo19-65

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.