Arrow Wraps

[tuthdoc]

Can you cut the 7 inch wraps to about 4 inches? I use Blazers and usually fletch to the shaft. I lost a vane off of a vapor when it went through a hog this past week. I'm thinking of trying the wraps on the vapors and Eastons. The Maximas hang on to their vanes pretty well.

[jerp]

That's exactly what I do - my wraps are only about 1/2 inch longer than the blazer

[Kdub]

TuthDoc
I use the reflective wraps. They are white in the day light, and reflect real well at night with a flash light. I started putting a ring between the nock and the blazers, and another one below the blazers toward the tip. Both rings are only about one inch wide, but they still make the arrow fairly easy to see. I got tired of messing up the wraps when I needed to replace one vane. I also have better luck getting the blazer to stick to the shaft than to the wrap. It also cuts way down on the amount of weight you are adding to the arrow.

[jerp]

I make my own, by the way. I ordered a roll of the same vinyl that the custom wrap makers use. They are nothing fancy - plain white - but they are easy to make and cost pennies-a-piece.

[bowhuntertex]

Jerp,

Where do you order your vinyl from?

[jerp]

I knew somebody was going to ask that - I don't remember. I've got the website in my Favorites on my home computer. I'll post the link when I get home tonight.

[bowhuntertex]

Thanks jerp. I have some designs I wanna try. just didn't know where to get the maerial.

[tuthdoc]

I thought that the vanes would adhere to the wraps better. That's the only reason I've thought about using them. I thought it would keep me from having to sand the shaft to help vane adhesion. Anyone else experience the same thing Kdub has?

[SPUD]

There is something else wrong if you can't get the vanes to stick to a wrap.

Also, you are not adding that much weight to the end of the arrow! Not anything that is going to make a difference

[oktx]

I use loctite superglue and blazers. I scrub the shaft with scotch-brite and wipe down with 91% alcohol. MOST stick and you cant pull them off with pliers. However, I have some that come off way too easy. I was going to try wraps also because I was told they that they would stick better. Most of mine are crested using cotton's spray paint method.

[tuthdoc]

I haven't had much of a problem with the vanes coming off, but I shot a hog Monday evening and lost one. I visualize the shot and it kind of takes a snapshot in my brain when the arrow disappears. Instead of disappearing I had a recollection of "orange" on the hogs shoulder for a second and then it disappeared. I thought I didn't get a "blow through" for a bit and that's unusual on 75 lb hogs with the First Cut mechs. After it ran off, I was glassing the ground looking for my arrow and saw my vane laying on the ground below where the point of impact occured. The vane came off before going through and hung there on her side for a second and that's what looked like a non pass through. I use my vapors and eastons for hogs and javelinas and just thought the wraps might keep that from happening again.

[bdphunt]

I have had good luck with the blazers sticking to my wraps. Passing though the hog and buck I shot this year and I can't even tell you which arrow it was I used on either of them. I did have trouble sticking on the bare shaft though, but the wraps have been great.

[jerp]

I have had good luck with the blazers sticking to my wraps. Passing though the hog and buck I shot this year and I can't even tell you which arrow it was I used on either of them. I did have trouble sticking on the bare shaft though, but the wraps have been great.

Same for me - I have several arrows with the wraps/Blazer combination that have been through numerous animals with no vane damage. Just scrub off the blood, screw in a new b-head and back in the quiver.

[Kdub]

I have to make a correction. I tried painted crestings on my arrows for a while, and I followed the instructions, but some of them didn't stick as well as just glueing them to the shaft. When one vane would come off, I would have to remove the paint and start over, and that was a pain, so I went the wraps. They stick better to the wraps, but I still had to re-do the whole thing every time I messed up one vane. I don't have any pic's handy of the ones I'm hunting with now, but they are easy to see, even with just two one inch rings of the wrap. I glue the blazers to the bare shaft, and if I need to replace one it's not any trouble.

[Sergio_III]

Tuthdoc, get some here!

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