I can attest to what turkeys see, everything. But I was told by a state game biologist that turkeys seem to ignore sky blue. If that is true I need a sky blue glassed longbow for turkey hunting and sky blue camo. According to my friend TonyDean, RIP, ticks will leave you alone if you are wearing sky blue clothing, I tried it, he was correct. I do know that Iowa turkeys are terrified of a white glassed longbow, especially if you have a turkey tag in your pocket. Deer, on the other hand don't seem to care as much. Camouflage arrows are good for the arrow business.

JR makes a good point about bright or light-toned feathers drawing alot of unwanted attention, especially when they move, swing or bounce (which they always do). In my early years I had more than a few critters spook because of this...which is precisely why I use bright feathers but always (whether bow quiver or back quiver) with a fletch cover. The only fletching that is visible when using a fletch cover is on the arrow sitting on the string...and that's hard for animals to see during the shot since it moves straight away from the animal and is partly hidden by my gloved hand/front limb. Again, common sense says that game WILL see anything bright or off-color that moves, whether at close range or long. It's a good reason to cover not only fletching, but any exposed skin (face, hands) as well. Some say it isn't needed. I say its good insurance, and as far as I can tell the critters agree.

All I use is 2 yellow and 1 gray barred feather with a yellow nock. I will pass on Hugh's spray paint concept. Sounds messy! LOL

I rarely use high visibility combinations anymore and definitely not any fluorescent when hunting. I stick with white nocks and I can see them pretty easily.

For a long time I used fluorescent colors. A few years ago I was ground hunting and used a bow quiver instead of the cat quiver I normally go to when transitioning to the ground. A group of 6 does came out and started working straight to me. The lead doe locked up at 50 yards staring right at me. I had a ghillie on and hadn't moved at all. She just stood there locked on my position. I kept thinking "what the hell is she staring at?" She eventually walked wide of me into a thicket and pulling the others with her into cover that would be an impossible shot. After they passed I looked down at the bright wad of feathers that was the only visual cue for her to spot. They may not see many colors, but they can see a bright mass that usually isn't in their hallway from the bedroom to the kitchen. The brightest I will go now is sun gold or yellow, nothing chartreuse or fluorescent. I won't run those colors while in a tree stand either.

Yes, mine are always crowned with a bright color but I don't seem to see it in flight.

You see the crown color and cresting when the arrow is in the quiver. Some care about that and some don't. Just personal preference.

I shoot 4 pink but they don't flicker. I guess if it were two colors it would flicker. I never thought about whether or not I'm seeing the crown color. 🤔

Inside 20 yards (a.k.a. hunting ranges) I don't see that it makes much difference whether an arrow flickers or simply spins for shooter visibility, but aesthetically an all-one-color 10" or 12" cap, nock and fletch is both easily seen and aesthetically nice to look at (a 'ball of color', as they say). It's a fine combo for flight visibility, maybe with a simple cresting as a cherry-on-top look in the looks category. Although white and pink are great arrow colors I lean towards yellow as a favorite...just personal preference.

Not sure my inner self could spray paint the entire side of a cedar I had just carefully made and then call it better, lol.

Not if you spray only the "upside" of the feather, as advised. As best I can decipher, that would be the left side on a left wing feather and the right side on a right wing feather. Left wing spins left so you would see it, likewise with the right wing feather spinning clockwise.

I see some holes in that. Looking at an arrow in flight, I'm going to see one side of the feather and not the other, because of the curve of the feather and helical or off set.

So if the nock are pointed to the right when I spray them, I'll have a different affect if I have right wing or left wing feathers.

I think, lol.

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I stump shoot a lot...i have tried a lot of colors and schemes. I will be staining or painting my stumping arrows bright pink and fletching with pink. Those show up best, hands down for finding them. That said, for simply seeing them in flight, fluorescent yellow stands out, in my eyes. I don't even use them any more because ( remember, i am Mr Ghillie guy) when i do the chipmunks all around me sound off...danged things.

If i change to a more subtle color....like white and red...they don't. If i hide the yellow fletches they don't. Do deer see them too ? I dunno.

I like bright pink fletch. I use 3 left wing 4” feathers. I also normally use all 3 feathers the same color. Nothing I can think of that is pink in the fall woods. I also see them well on my target butt. Maybe I will stop by the Hardware next time out and try to find some pink paint and spray down one side of a couple shafts and see how it works.

I tried flo green here last year and that was a mistake! there is so much flo green in nature in the early season here it was perfect camouflage. I was certainly not expecting it to be so hard to find. white works great here, but I learned it doesn't work so well with snow, don't ask me how I know... 🙄

Flo yellow with flo green nocks is what shows up the best for me especially when an arrow goes AWOL. All white as well. I tend to lose the combo of say red and white after 35 yards.

Fluorescent chartreuse is more reflective in low light conditions. That is why us walleye fishermen use fluorescent chartreuse jigs, fish can see it better in deeper water. Oh yes, walleye for supper tonight.

Jeremy, I would think so. I just got back from shooting some two fletch with white feathers on a black shaft could definitely tell a difference from my 3 fletch.

Why is this the first time I'm seeing this? I'm wondering if you'd get the same visual affect by just having 4 fletch with 2 different colors? Not sure though, I'll stick with my all yellow fletchings. For now.

-Jeremy

It's amazing what was done in the past! Interesting.

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Great idea there........flicker feathers..💈 👀