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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.[:@]

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that sucks but atleast it didn't end up hurting someone.

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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... :)

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I know this won't make you feel any better but,there will be more in the future.:D

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Just another reason to go buy more arrows!

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[:-]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.

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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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Hey them women can get your mind in the gutter [8D]:DKeep lookin you will find it.

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Been there done that, especially with a one pine movable sight. Like Tfox said, I doubt it will be your last time;).

Paul

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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.:D

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Haha you got that right. They can make your mind do crazy things!

Glad you found it and it only cost you 10 rather than 20! haha

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Hope its not in a tree. That can be a pain.

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My Labrador retriever that I just put down at Christmas time showed me one time the importance of spraying down my arrows and bowbefore going into the woods. I did the same thing you did (lost an arrow) in some vegetation. She sniffed it right out.

THAT was the "other" lesson I learned that day.

Glad you got your arrow back.

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Check the shaft well before shooting it again! Do the bend and listen test.

Tom

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Wait a second, you sent your daughter and her boyfriend out into the woods behind your house alone? And they came back in 5 minutes? You must have some powerful influence to have put that much fear into him. Please tell me your secret in case there is a little girl in my future.;)

Oh, and congrats on finding the arrow. I've lost my share losing my concentration as well.

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And fast hands from what I hear:D

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Would his eyes have been that good for $5 ? ? ?

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Good question, Ed. Probably not. These days, you can't get a seventeen year old to get up out of a chair for five dollars. I'm surprised that ten motivated them.:D

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Was it the money or being alone with your daughter and getting paidfor it?

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Ouch![:@] Good shot.:D

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oh nooooooo i don't think he caught that one germ

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You're right,... I missed that post in the string. Jeez, Germ, you guys are merciless.:D:D:D

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man, one step over the line......

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My day is coming with my daughter[:@] Gibblet it's ok I am jumping back over;)

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Oh yeah. You'll find out.:D:DWith six kids, I'm surprised I've still got all my hair and it's not all gray. Three girls; 20, 17 and 13. The 17 year old ships out for the Air Force in August. One more to go.....;)

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Tell her I and my family appreciate her service and yours:)

To stay away from boys until she is 45:D