"Shrink Wrap" Fletching
10-27-2005, 09:08 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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"Shrink Wrap" Fletching
Have any of you seen or used this? I found a company called Extreme Archery (www.extremearchery.com) and they have "Shrink Fletch" kits. No glue at all.
If any of you have the Petersons Whitetail Bowhunting mag for Nov 2005, it's on page 37.
If any of you have the Petersons Whitetail Bowhunting mag for Nov 2005, it's on page 37.
10-27-2005, 10:59 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: "Shrink Wrap" Fletching
I have some right now that I got as samples. I'm planning on putting them on some GT 22 Pro's soon just to see how they work. I would not buy them in any event as I just can't see paying something around $15 for six of them. I have had a Bitz jig for decades and the price of these things will buy a lot of feathers/vanes and glue.
I imagine that they would be pretty slick for removing from the arrow. Just take a razor blade and slice down the wrap. Then uncurl the thing from your arrow. That also seems kida wasteful. If one vane gets messed up you either live with it or replace the whole thing.
I imagine that they would be pretty slick for removing from the arrow. Just take a razor blade and slice down the wrap. Then uncurl the thing from your arrow. That also seems kida wasteful. If one vane gets messed up you either live with it or replace the whole thing.
10-27-2005, 07:15 PM
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RE: "Shrink Wrap" Fletching
wis bow,
I shoot or a sales rep and these were his samples from last year. They have four inch vanes on them, which I don't really care to shoot. I really like feathers, but I have them and I'll try them so I have an idea of their worth. Then when somebody asks about them I won't be just guessing and making rash statements.
I shoot or a sales rep and these were his samples from last year. They have four inch vanes on them, which I don't really care to shoot. I really like feathers, but I have them and I'll try them so I have an idea of their worth. Then when somebody asks about them I won't be just guessing and making rash statements.
10-27-2005, 08:31 PM
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RE: "Shrink Wrap" Fletching
People use to say the same thing about mechanical releases.
ORIGINAL: bdu33
IMO I think this is just another "gimmick" to get the "other than normal" bowhunter to try. I've seen them and wouldn't put them on my arrows for free. JMO
IMO I think this is just another "gimmick" to get the "other than normal" bowhunter to try. I've seen them and wouldn't put them on my arrows for free. JMO
10-27-2005, 09:00 PM
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RE: "Shrink Wrap" Fletching
^^^^True, true...maybe I should buy some stock in them???? Only time will tell.
Senario.....
regular fletching comes off or tears....Scrape it off, pull out the jig and glue another on.
Shrink fletch.....tear 1, or rip the crest, and you have to replace the whole thing, and you haveboil water or think of a shortcut...like over a flame. That could cost you over a season of shooting.
Dont get me wrong, whoever invented this thing will make some money...just not from me.
Senario.....
regular fletching comes off or tears....Scrape it off, pull out the jig and glue another on.
Shrink fletch.....tear 1, or rip the crest, and you have to replace the whole thing, and you haveboil water or think of a shortcut...like over a flame. That could cost you over a season of shooting.
Dont get me wrong, whoever invented this thing will make some money...just not from me.
10-28-2005, 12:18 AM
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RE: "Shrink Wrap" Fletching
These things are CRAP!!!! My buddy called me on the phone when he saw them as Basspro, I laughed and told him save his money. Well he didn't and now he realized he wasted the dough. These things are flimsy and weak. It gotfairly cool here last week (32) and in the morning they got really stiff and cracked by the time he got to his stand.They may work if somehow you got up and realized the fletch monster ate all your feathers and you didn't have anything else. But that is the ONLY time I would ever touch them.