Always pay attention to what you're doing
05-06-2007 | 09:40 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: West Tennessee
Always pay attention to what you're doing
I just finished some extensive shooting with my newly fletched arrows. I fletched 6 with wraps/duravanes and 6 with feathers. I put my Montecs on the Duravane shafts first. I'm very satisfied with their performance. Then I put my montecs on the shafts fletched with feathers. Even more accurate. Shot 2 ends of 5 at 10, then 20, then 30 yards. Then, as I was shooting at 40 yards and had shot two good shots, and my wife came outside to ask me a question. After talking to her for a couple of minutes, I must have forgot what I was doing. I drew back, again at 40, settled the 20 yard pin and released. I watched in disbelief as the arrow sailed under the target, glanced off the fence and sailed into the woods. It's lost. There went over $20.00, and now I have an empty slot in my bowcase.[:@]
05-06-2007 | 10:07 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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From: Jackson, Missouri
RE: Always pay attention to what you're doing
Perhaps it's not lost yet... I'd bet if you walked out in that direction and looked for 30 minutes or more, you'd find it... Of course,now you see why I cap my arrows with a high-gloss white... 
05-06-2007 | 11:49 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Winnipeg MB Canada
RE: Always pay attention to what you're doing
[:-]It happens to all of us. I drove one through the garage wall B4.
And not to hijack this thread but look as though Greg/MO has a great money saving idea for refletching w/wraps. It looks like you only scatched the wrap off where the fletching is.
And not to hijack this thread but look as though Greg/MO has a great money saving idea for refletching w/wraps. It looks like you only scatched the wrap off where the fletching is.
05-06-2007 | 11:57 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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From: One mile east of West Podunk Tx
RE: Always pay attention to what you're doing
Thats not a wrap I bet. It looks to me like he paints them. Well, after going back and reading his thread again I'm sure. He calls it caps so its paint.
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05-06-2007 | 04:46 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: West Tennessee
RE: Always pay attention to what you're doing
SUCCESS!!
My daughter's boyfriend came over a while ago, so I told him and my daughter that I'd givewhoever found it$10.00. Five minutes later, he called me. It was buried in a tree 40 yards behind the target and about 20 yards to the left. After deflecting off two fences and hitting a tree, the arrow is fine. I had to tweak the broadhead to get it to spin true again, but it's good to go. I'll say one thing... the kid's got good eyes.
My daughter's boyfriend came over a while ago, so I told him and my daughter that I'd givewhoever found it$10.00. Five minutes later, he called me. It was buried in a tree 40 yards behind the target and about 20 yards to the left. After deflecting off two fences and hitting a tree, the arrow is fine. I had to tweak the broadhead to get it to spin true again, but it's good to go. I'll say one thing... the kid's got good eyes.