Traditional Arras in the rain

[Weldabeast]

Show off ur ugly feathers.....

These couple seasons old and have been soaked multiple times and couple pass thru

 

[Weldabeast]

Sometimes u guys are no fun....I can't be the only person who gots ugly feathers can I?.......

 

[Petrichor]

I use trad vanes or fletching treated with powder. I hunt the rain all the time.

 

[GCTerpfan]

Sometimes u guys are no fun....I can't be the only person who gots ugly feathers can I?.......

I looked for you but, the bow I hunted with the other week is at my dads house getting a new coat of finish and my quiver full of ugly arrows is there with it. Any other ugly arrows I had were recently re fletched and made pretty again.

 

[Micneador]

Only thing ugly about my arrows is my fletch job!

 

[katiesmom]

I just fletched up a new set for my Slick Stick. Gonna see if I can get em ugly this afternoon.

 

[BTaylor]

Sometimes u guys are no fun....I can't be the only person who gots ugly feathers can I?.......

Life is too short to shoot ugly arrows.

 

[BowhunterXC]

Unless you're an ace at tracking, hunting in the rain with a weapon that kills by way of hemorrhage is just inviting trouble.

 

[BTaylor]

Unless you're an ace at tracking, hunting in the rain with a weapon that kills by way of hemorrhage is just inviting trouble.

I agree for the most part. I will hunt in a light rain or heavy drizzle like I had all this past weekend but generally only in the late season when the leaves are off and most of the understory is largely melted down after repeated frost and freezes. A well shot deer this time of year will seldom get out of sight in a lot of places. And even if they do it is massively easier to find them now as opposed to early season. That said I switch to my compound for those type conditions because I dont want to have to deal with a quiver full of feathers in need of rehabilitation, lol.

 

[Allegheny Tom]

Unless you're an ace at tracking, hunting in the rain with a weapon that kills by way of hemorrhage is just inviting trouble.

Always a last resort is to use Luminol if the trail gets washed-out. I won't purposely arrow a deer in the rain but sometimes things don't go as we planned. Luminol is amazing at locating blood after a substantial rain. It detects the iron in blood and rain cannot wash the iron away. Law enforcement uses luminol to find blood at crime scenes and it still finds it even after the perp has tried to wash it away with soap, water, bleach, etc.

 

[ledflight]

Another vote for trad vanes. Also they are quieter to my ears.