luminock
 

i'm thinkin about using the luminock does anybody know the pro's and cons about them?

RE: luminock
 

Not yet but I do have one for testing if I can every get to it!

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I have some on my whitetail xp's and they are bad a$$.Iuse dark fletching so the pro for me is to actually watch the trajectory of my arrow.I have only shot them out to 40 yards and they are very visible out to that distance,can't wait to see one disaprear into a deer's chest;)The only negative i see to them isturning them off.You have to pull and wiggle them up,not twist them.If you twist them you can break the little wire that activates them.What i did was buy four and site in with them and leave then on until the batteries died.That way i can shoot all summer with them and just before sept.15th i install brand new ones:DNot the cheapest way to go but then who said archery was cheap???

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I bought a dozen last year for night time hog hunts here in Texas, man they are sweet!! But way costly....

You can make your own!!!!! A whole lot cheaper.. here's how

Go down to your local fishing tackle store and buy some Thill Lights, cost about 1.00 a peice, next get you a drill bitf just a tad bigger than your thill light and drill a small hole from the bottom of your nock till it just comes out where your string will be .. Then insert the Thill light, push it flush with the inside nock edge where you string will go and put a very small amount of super glue on the light part (nowhere else) let it dry and presto you have a homemade lighted nock... when you get ready to shot it just pull your knck out and press the light on and reinsert you nock and line it up, your ready to go ...

RE: luminock
 

Thats a pretty smart idea

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i have gt's nocks the one's with allen screws in them will that still work?

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I was less than impressed with them , they fit very loosely and that leeds to bad arrow flight , you cant glue them in because to turn them off you have to "wiggle" them .The other lighted nock out there that is turned on by a magnet weighs 40 grains , thats too much .

RE: luminock
 

lilrobinhood, a friend of mine uses the same nocks as you do, he went ahead and drilled the hole in the nock and then used a shorter set screw to hold the head of the thill light in ... he said it worked pretty well..

jimmy, you said they fit lossly, what arrows were you using, most everybody that I know that use them have troubles with them being to tight...
were you using a Fat style of 3-d arrow??

RE: luminock
 

I already tried those homemade nocks and had every one of them break upon release.i wish i would have saved them to post what they looked like but all ican say is i was very lucky that i did not get an arrow through my arm,i get goose bumps just thinking about shooting at a deer and having the nock break and putting my Muzzy 4 blade into my forearm[:'(]Best of luck if you choose to go that route but $10.00 a pop is well worth it to me:D

RE: luminock
 

If you put a small piece of electrical tape like 1/16 - 1/8" over where the nock body meets the shrink wrap it will tighten the lumenocks up nicely.. also makes them function better.. due to the tighter fit.

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Wow, the nocks broke, I have made well over forty for myself and friends and have never had one break yet!! My draw weight is 73 lbs......

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I have shot the lumenoks and have had good luck but the do not show up well on video earlier in the day but dawn and dusk they are awesome i shot this elk with a lumenok at 5 yards while it was running at me right before dark and it was the most awesome video

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I've seen them fit tight in arrows and I've seen them fit loose. I guess it just goes to show how inconsistent a pure carbon arrow really is. And before anybody says that the Lumenoks may have been sloppy, we put a micrometer on them and they were all very consistent.

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Im useing them on beman matrix arrows with an alluminum core . I wont shot pure carbons .They are loose . They have to be loose by design . The opperation for turning them off requires that you "wiggel" them in the arrow . This makes for horrabe accuracy . If you watch their tv add , a nock comes out of the arrow on a hog at the shot , and on another shot on a deer the arrow "dances "before reaching the animal , thats just their add . I tested them for myself and they came up way short .

RE: luminock
 

You have to wiggle them????? What are you calling wiggle?? All the ones I have seen and used, and even made, to turn them off you have to twist and pull the nock back , they fit really tight, and to turn them on I had to pull my arrow back slightly to get it to ground the circut out to function, it really seems that the people that are having problems are the people that say they are too loose...if they fit tto loose they will comeout on impact and also cause bad accuracy..

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Mine fit tight in my WhitetailXP's and have wonderful accuracy with them:D

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Mine fit very tightly. Think they are a great item, especially if you are shooting very early in the morning or in the evening, as it gets dark. Like shooting a tracer.

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I use them on my XX75 and they work great.If you use the super uni nock you can make them in minutes using the Thill light.Just drill the nock out from the insert end with a 11/64 bit.Stop drilling when the bit reaches the base of the nock.You want to drill it just far enough to have the bulb inside the nock.Then get a needle and heat it up tell it's red.Push it into the nock tell it goes into the red plastic that's around the bulb.Then cut the extra piece off and file it smooth.This will hold it in place when you turn it off.I also file the nock a little bit where it enters the bushing so it won't fit so tight.That way you can pull it out by hand to turn the light off.But it will still fit very snug in the arrow.

RE: luminock
 

I shoot of the string , this may be why I get bad accuracy with them , If you shoot a loop it probably is not as critical to nock fit an quality , I guess thats why so many suport useing the loop , I have a gatorjaw release I may try , it should give similar results to the loop .

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Can someone post a picture of their homemade lighted nock? :eek:

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I shoot Easton Exel 400s and they fit tightly, and work very well. I cant tell any difference in point of impact of the arrows with my regular nocks out to 50 yards. I did have one kick a little as it hit the target and broke off one of the ears of the nock, ruining it. But any nock probably would have done the same. I love them, and cant wait to shoot one on video, at a deer.